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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 730

The archive of personal effects of Pilot P. B. Marciniszyn, Polish Air Force & Royal Air Force, a gallant Polish pilot of No. 300 Squadron who was lost on Operations over Hamburg on 4 February 1943

Poland, Pilot's Badge, by J. Knedler, Warsaw, the reverse privately inscribed 'for May. Blackpool III/IX 40', with its screw-back plate and original retaining chain and pin; Royal Air Force Identity Tag, impressed ' 782886 Marciniszyn RC RAF'; United States of America, Pilot's 'wings', by Firmin, London; a postcard of Marciniszyn by J. Capstack, The Promenade, Blackpool', and additionally inscribed in ink 'Souvenir for my best friend May! Bolek.' and dated 'IX 40', good very fine (Lot)

Pawel Boleslaw Marciniszyn was born on 3 June 1915 at Ropienka, Poland and qualified in the Polish Air Force before the outbreak of the Second World War. He served in the Royal Air Force as a Sergeant Pilot (No. 782886) with No. 300 Squadron. Flying Wellington III, BK511 BH-X from RAF Hemswell, he and his all-Polish crew lifted off at 1813hrs for operations over Hamburg. The entire crew were lost without trace - believed to have been shot down whilst over the sea - and are commemorated upon the Northolt Memorial.

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