Lancaster I PA163 - Lovns Bredning                 Aalestrup 2019                             Updated: 29 MAR 2021

Airman Surname Init Rank Service Sqdn P_link Plane Operation Crash_site Crash_d Buried_d C_link At_Next
a116008.htm Cent W F/Sgt PAF 300 p361.htm LAN PA163 Bomb G Lovns Bredning d300844 b140944 c116.htm Aalestrup
a116009.htm Kardasiewicz Z F/Sgt PAF 300 p361.htm LAN PA163 Bomb G Lovns Bredning d300844 b200944 c116.htm Aalestrup
a116010.htm Madracki J F/Sgt PAF 300 p361.htm LAN PA163 Bomb G Lovns Bredning d300844 b170944 c116.htm Aalestrup
a116011.htm Pretkiewicz M W F/O PAF 300 p361.htm LAN PA163 Bomb G Lovns Bredning d300844 b070944 c116.htm Aalestrup
a116012.htm Rutkiewicz J J F/Sgt PAF 300 p361.htm LAN PA163 Bomb G Lovns Bredning d300844 b280745 c116.htm Aalestrup
a116013.htm Stolowski J F/Sgt PAF 300 p361.htm LAN PA163 Bomb G Lovns Bredning d300844 b010944 c116.htm Aalestrup
v999001.htm Wasik W P P/O PAF 300 p361.htm LAN PA163 Bomb G Lovns Bredning d300844 s999 v999.htm EVD to S


"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.

Rester af flyet blev bragt tilbage til basen Faldingworth i England af Niels Erik Stampe og David Ashton, flyvehistorisk interesserede, til en mindehøjtidelighed i 2007. Desværre var Wasik da lige død.

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. Operation 30 AUGUST 1944 - ruter og tab.
Dansk Militærhistorie har Luftkrig over Lovns Bredning af Niels Fogsgaard Søndergaard & Søren Ulrich Thomsen.
Historisk Samling og Arkiv Himmerland har mere om dette fly og dets besætning.

Airwar over Denmark har mere om dette fly og dets besætning.   Updated:  08 MAR 2026   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 has been erected on the coast here
due to a private initiative.

P/O W.P. Wasik was helped to evade to Sweden. People of the area are still preoccupied with what happened then.
Parts of the plane were brought back to Faldingworth Air Base in England by Niels Erik Stampe and David Ashton, who are interested in history and military aviation,
to a commemorative event in 2007. Unfortunately, Wasik had then just passed away.

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 all buried in Aalestrup in the course of time as they were found.

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 * 35 Airmen shot down over Denmark on SOE Missions to Poland
 Lancaster I PA163 BH-M took off from RAF Faldingworth at 21:08 on 29 AUG 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  p361MACR     

Airwar over Denmark has more about this plane and its crew.     Updated:  08 MAR 2026   7 airmen.