| Re: WWII RAF bomber found in Poland
I found this particularly interesting as I had just read about these flights into Poland during the Warsaw uprising in a book I got on Ebay. The book is titled "Looking Into Hell - Experiences of the Bomber Command War" and contains several interesting accounts of missions flown by Bomber Command crews.
The flights into Warsaw, and this found bomber was one from 148 Sqn., flew with virtually no support to the city to drop much needed supplies to the Polish partisans. The flights were opposed by the Russians (who didn't want Poland to have a standing "army" when they eventually took over, and actually assisted the Nazis with information to help them quell the uprising). Flight crews were not allowed to land in Russian territory should they be shot down or have mechanical problems. If they did they risked prison or worse.
In all, the crews bravely performed high risk missions to Warsaw with little support from home and none from the Russian "allies." |