File 362. 1945-05-16/16 P-51 Mustang III FB383 PAF Kubica Makkum

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Date: 1945 May 16/16 A/C Type: P-51 Mustang III SN: FB383 Code: WC-X A/C Nickname:
 File: 362 Airforce:  RAF Sqn/Unit: Polish 309 Sqn Mission/Raid: Training over North Sea, northeast off London.
1 Pilot Porucznik (1Lt.) Franciszek Kubica      KIA       9 RWG  
2 Co-pilot   10 TG  
3 Nav.   11    
4 B   12    
5 E   13    
6 RO   14    
7 BTG   15    
8 LWG   16                    

Collided in training over the North Sea with P-51 Mustang III of colleague F/Lt. M.F. Befinger (buried Epping). Lt. Kubica washed ashore weeks later in the Wadden Sea, Netherlands. A fishingboat took the body for burial to Makkum.
 


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