Kazimierz Pawluk
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Kazimierz Pawluk known as “Kaz” was a Polish Vickers Wellington bomber “Observer and Captain” flying from England when he was taken prisoner during the Second World War. He is notable for the part he
Wreck of the Wellington Mark II SM-M of F/O Kazimierz Pawluk.
Memorial to "The Fifty" down the road toward Żagań (Pawluk at right)
Thomas Kirby-Green
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Thomas Gresham Kirby-Green was a British Royal Air Force officer, the pilot of a Vickers Wellington bomber, who was taken prisoner during the Second World War. He took part in the 'Great Escape' from
Kazimierz Pawluk
…23. He ended up in prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III in the province of Lower Silesia near the town of Sagan (now Żagań in Poland) where he and Tom Kirby-Green shared in the care of a stray cat and her kittens. Pawluk was one of the 76 men who escaped the prison camp on the night of 24–25 March 1944 in the…
The Merlin-engined Wellington Mark II. This aircraft belongs to No. 104 Sqn.
311 Squadron flight crew with their Wellington bomber at RAF East Wretham
RAF memorial in Hrabůvka