Zygmunt Jasinski

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Remembering Zygmunt Jasinski, who was killed on the 16th August 1944.

Podporucznik (FO) Zygmunt Jasinski was born in the town of Kąty, Poland (now Ukraine) on the 3rd September 1916. He served as a pilot in the Polish Air Force and in 1944 he was serving in 305 Squadron, Royal Air Force. On the night of the 15th August fourteen aircraft were detailed for a night attack on the enemy locations in the appointed zone of Falaise - Quillebouef, south-west of Paris. He and his navigator, PO Jan Jozef Trzandel, were amongst 12 of the aircraft detailed to bomb a rail crossing by GEE.

They took off from RAF Lasham in Mosquito, LR261 at 23.35 hours but shortly after take-off the plane, for unknown reasons, could not gain height and during a turn caught on a tree and crashed at 01:35 at Goldenpot, Hampshire, 3 miles from the airport. Their aircraft caught fire and both airmen were killed. They were buried in the cemetery in Newark, Nottinghamshire.