Jan Madracki                                           Updated:  02 NOV 2011

Airman: a116010.htm Surname: Madracki Init: J Rank: F/Sgt Service: PAF Sqdn: 300

P_link: p361.htm Plane: LAN PA163 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Lovns Bredning

Crash_d: d300844 Buried_d: b170944 C_link: c116.htm At_Next: Aalestrup

"På vej til Stettin (Szczecin her) blev et Lancaster fly med polsk besætning ramt at en tysk
natjager. Flyet eksploderede i luften og styrtede brændende i Lovns Bredning kort efter midnat."
(FAF) Nedstyrtningsstedet i vandet var her (Kilde: Niels Erik Stampe).
En mindesten er rejst ved kysten her på privat initiativ.

Piloten, W.P. Wasik blev slynget væk fra maskinen ved eksplosionen og reddede sig i sin faldskærm. Læs hvordan W.P. Wasik blev hjulpet til Sverige.
De andre 6 besætningsmedlemmer omkom ved styrtet og blev alle begravet i Aalestrup, efterhånden
som de blev fundet. F/Sgt J. Madracki blev begravet den 17. september 1944. 7 flyvere. 

"Heading for Stettin (Szczecin here) a Lancaster with a Polish crew was hit by a German night fighter. The plane exploded in the air and crashed, burning, into Lovns Bredning shortly after midnight." (FAF) The crash site in the water was here (Source: Niels Erik Stampe).
A memorial stone is erected at the coast here due to a private initiative.

P/O (Pilot) W.P. Wasik was thrown clear of the plane at the explosion and his parachute saved him. Read how W.P. Wasik was helped to evade to Sweden.
The other 6 members of the crew perished in the crash and were alle buried in Aalestrup in the
course of time as they were found. F/Sgt J. Madracki was buried on 17 September, 1944.

See  Bomber Command No. 300 (Polish) Squadron.
Also Sqn Histories No. 300 Masovian Squadron * The Poles on the Front Lines.
This Lancaster - see photos - took off from RAF Faldingworth, see RAF-Lincolnshire.info.
7 airmen.  Lost Bombers has this.