Jozef Jan Rutkiewicz        Updated: 29 MAR 2021  Photo from Jan Pietrzak via Greg Niebieska eskadra see Rutkiewicz

Airman: a116012.htm Surname: Rutkiewicz Init: J 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: b280745 C_link: c116.htm At_Next: Aalestrup

"På vej til Stettin (Szczecin) 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.J. Rutkiewicz (eller J. Stolowski) blev begravet den 28. juli 1945.
Han blev fundet i flyvraget, da det blev hævet.
Historisk Samling og Arkiv Himmerland har mere om dette fly og dets besætning.
Se 21 polske flyvere begravet i Danmark ud af 36 polske flyvere skudt ned over Danmark. 7 flyvere. 

"Heading for Stettin (Szczecin) 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.J. Rutkiewicz (or J. Stolowski) was buried on
28 July, 1945. He was found in the wreck of the plane, as it was raised from the seabed.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 1, P 93.

See No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron - Wikipedia * No 300 Polish Squadron Photo Gallery
RAF-Lincolnshire.info * Operation 30 AUGUST 1944 - routes and losses.
See 21 Polish Airmen buried in Denmark * 36 Polish airmen shot down over Denmark.
Lancaster I PA163 BH-M took off from RAF Faldingworth at 21.08 hrs on 29 AUG 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  p361MACR      7 airmen.