212326 Unknown Polish Air Force from:Poland I live in Clayton North Carolina, the following is a story I heard from a 92 year old woman in the grocery yesterday 18th July 2013.
She was English, from Leicester. She was 16 when she was to be married to a Polish Bomber Pilot. Ten days before the wedding he went out on a mission over the North Sea Where he was shot down. He was picked up by a German Gunboat. He was treated well and even given Brandy. He was in a prison camp for over three years. She stated he was in Stalag Luft 3 and was one of the men who dug the tunnels for the escape that "they made the movie the Great Escape from He spoke very little English when she met him, however, three weeks after the war ended there was a knock on her mothers door and there he stood. They traveled around after the war as he was in the textile business, working in the Channel Islands and Ireland for 9 years until approached by a business here in Clayton. they moved here in 1963. She said they were married for 51 years and that he died 17 years ago. She was a very lively woman and she left the grocery quickly . I never got her name. I wish I knew who this man was. His wife was remarkable. I wonder how many Polish Bomber pilots who had been in England were released at the end of the war from Stalag Luft 3.
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