7665
Deaths Dec 1945 Mielecki Leopold 34 Chard 5c 348
Liberator VIII – Serial KH125 – 53 Sqdn
This plane, on it's way to India with a Polish crew, left Merryfield aerodrome near Ilminster one foggy morning & failed to gain sufficient height and crashed into a field at Castle Farm, Buckland St Mary in Somerset killing 26 occupants immediately and a survivor who died on the way to hospital.
Crew and Passengers:
F/Sgt Jan Brzenski (Flight Engineer)
F/O Stanislaw Kleybor(Nav) DFC
F/O Antoni Wize(W/Op)
F/O Gordon Jenkins Myers, (Co-Pilot)
A G Quick
P J Biles
C H Buck
H W G Staunton
A J Birch
R C Anderson
R O Anderson
J H Attwood
D B Benjamin
J Brewis
W A Charlton
A E Clark
L J Curry
H Donovan
L H Downes
L R Dyer
P Fairbairn
W Gent
O Williams
R E C Williams
B W Fox
7665
Deaths Dec 1945 Mielecki Leopold 34 Chard 5c 348
Liberator VIII – Serial KH125 – 53 Sqdn
This plane, on it's way to India with a Polish crew, left Merryfield aerodrome near Ilminster one foggy morning & failed to gain sufficient height and crashed into a field at Castle Farm, Buckland St Mary in Somerset killing 26 occupants immediately and a survivor who died on the way to hospital.
Crew and Passengers:
F/Sgt Jan Brzenski (Flight Engineer)
F/O Stanislaw Kleybor(Nav) DFC
F/O Antoni Wize(W/Op)
F/O Gordon Jenkins Myers, (Co-Pilot)
A G Quick
P J Biles
C H Buck
H W G Staunton
A J Birch
R C Anderson
R O Anderson
J H Attwood
D B Benjamin
J Brewis
W A Charlton
A E Clark
L J Curry
H Donovan
L H Downes
L R Dyer
P Fairbairn
W Gent
O Williams
R E C Williams
B W Fox
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