Date: 1941 Jun 18/19			A/C Type: Wellington IC		SN: R1696		Code: SM-P		A/C Nickname:
File: 466		Airforce: RAF		Sqn/Unit:  305 Sqn (Polish)			Mission/Raid: Bremen
1	Pilot	Sgt. Stanislaw Lewek                  POW					9
2	CP/Obs	Sgt. Edward Olenyn                    POW					10
3	Fl Eng/AG	P/O Kazimierz Jaklewicz            POW					11
4	WO/AG	Sgt. Debkowski                            POW					12
5	WO/AG	F/O Kazimierz Zebebecki       Bergen-aan-Zee					13
6	Rear gunner	Sgt. Hendryk Rogowski          Lutjebroek - Breda					14
7							15
8							16
Came down (cause Nightfighter) at Hoogkarspel, Enkhuizen-west. 2 KIA, 4 POW.

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F/O Zebebecki was buried (row 1) by the Germans in the cemetery near their airbase at Bergen aan Zee. He still rests there today (Row 1 E).

Weeks later, during the salvage of the wreck, a burned body was found. This was Sgt. Henryk Rogowski, he was buried on the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Lutjebroek.
In 1967 he was exhumed and reburied on the Polish War Cemetery Ettensebaan in Breda.

See for photos our cemetery files on Bergen aan Zee:  http://www.zzairwar.nl/dossiers/911.html

File Churchyard Lutjebroek:  http://www.zzairwar.nl/dossiers/953.html

File Polish War Cemetery Ettensebaan Breda:  http://www.zzairwar.nl/dossiers/997.html



Sources: 

- Local history books West-Friesland
- www.polishwargraves.nl/ned/r.1696.htm




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