Roman WAL Photos
Cross Country competition, University Aero Club-Lwow, August 30, 1937. Roman second from left, three years after receiving his civilian pilot’s license at age 18.
Roman on leave from Polish Air Force Officer Reserve School sitting next to his sister. Warsaw, May 29, 1939.
Sofia, Bulgaria, 1939 with colleague while waiting for paperwork to travel to France to
join the Free French Air Force.
Roman, on the right.
Forced landing in Russe, Bulgaria, September 19, 1939, after running out of fuel while crossing the Danube River at night. Roman, second from left.
S/S Warszawa, Piraeas, Greece with other Polish pilots traveling to Marseille, France, November 1939, to join the Free French Air Force. Roman top right.
S/S Arandora Star, St. Jean de Luz, France, with rescued pilots traveling to Liverpool, England to join the Royal Air Force, June 1940.
S/S Arandora Star, June 1940.
RAF training course, Roman bottom row right, 1943.
Roman. RAF Station Fairlop, September 6, 1943.
RAF Station Fairlop, September 1943. Roman on the left.
RAF Station Fairlop, September 1943. Roman second from right with Polish pilots who served with him in the Free French Air Force.
Windmill adjacent to the field (Polder) where Roman crash landed outside of Bleiswijk, Netherlands on December 13, 1943. Photo shows one of the ditches surrounding the Polder where Roman hid (“up to my neck in water”) while Luftwaffe spotter planes circled above the crash site. He was thrown out of his flaming cockpit upon impact, further injuring his legs which were also burned.
Card showing Roman’s assignment to POW camp-Stalag Luft 3, dated January 10, 1944.
Prisoner No. 3284. Roman’s Oflag Luft 3,
dog tag, 1944.
Roman, second from left, reunited with Squadron 315 after liberation from the prison camp, standing in front of P-51 Mustang, July 1945 with his colleagues, who followed him out of Poland to England, to join the RAF
as fighter pilots.
Ceremony presenting Roman with the Cross of Valor medal, RAF Station Hucknall, 1945.
WAAF Second Lieutenant, Romana Hanytkiewicz, RAF Station Newton, February 28,1946.
Roman and Romana, celebrating their
engagement in 1946.
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