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Lech, Eugeniusz Marian

Date of birth:
January 10th, 1905 (Rzeszow, Poland)
Date of death:
June 20th, 1942 (West-Terschelling, the Netherlands)
Buried on:
Commonwealth War Graves West-Terschelling
Grave: 58.
Service number:
P 1433
Nationality:
Polish (1918-1939, IInd Republic)

Biography

On 20-6-1942 at 03.00 pm the Z 1215 Wellington was shot down by a German night fighter 30 km northwest of the island of Vlieland and crashed into the North Sea during a robbery at Emden.
Two crew members washed ashore on the Dutch coast, including Lech. The other six crew members are missing.

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