COMMANDERS
Jan Biały	Piotr Dudzinski	Stanislaw Poziomek	Kazimierz Czetowicz
Mieczyslaw Pronaszko	Czeslaw Korbut	Jerzy Kranc	Stanislaw Zurek

RAF Lindholme. Left: Wellington Mk I being bomb up before mission. Right: The unit's CO, W/Cdr Bialy in flying gear.

Czeslaw Pajko (navigator), 3rd from left, with his crew in 1943. Needs more info.

Stefan Galazka In 1945 pilot of the Wellingtons.	Jozef Apanasewicz 50 ops flights as a wireless operator. VM, CV+3bars.	Bronislaw Ajdukiewicz 50 ops flights as a navigator.	Czeslaw Kolosowski Navigator.	Leon Kowalczyk Pilot.
Jan Walentowicz Pilot.	Wlodzimierz Braun Pilot.	Stanislaw Garstka Pilot.	Zygmunt Sokolowski Navigator. VM.	Marian Szczodrowski Pilot.

Left: W/O Henryk Bohatkiewicz, CV+bar. 50 ops flights as a wireless operator. Right: RAF Dale 1943.

RAF Dawidstow-Moor. August 13, 1943 - Polish Soldier's Day.
The squadron's CO reporting to the visiting president of Poland Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz.

Same day and place. The ceremony of hoisting the flag, preceding speeches and presenting the unit's members with decorations.

Same day and place.

Same day and place. W/Cdr Czetowiicz conversing with the President.
(All four pictures courtesy of Wojtek Szczepanik)

Probably RAF Dale 1942. Ground crew and flying personnel. Needs info. (photo courtesy of Anne Whittaker)

Probably RAF Dale 1942. Ground crew and flying personnel. Third from left is LAC Ewald Wawrzyniak. Needs info.
(photo courtesy of Anne Whittaker)

 
RAF Chievor. 25 April 1944, the Squadron's Day.
Left: Visitng Gen. Izycki talks with the station OC. In a background white painted Wellington X. Right: Part of the celebration in a hangar. Polish Air Force color lowered during a moment of silence honoring fallen comrades.

RAF Chievor. 25 April 1944, the Squadron's Day.

RAF Chievor. 25 April 1944, the Squadron's Day. Gen Izycki talks to the crew before the scheduled ops.

Spring 1945, RAF St. Eval. On of the crews before a flight in this 304 Squadron's Wellington MkX. The pilot in the center is pilot Bohdan Ejbich.

Spring 1945, RAF St. Eval. Notice, the unit's new code letters QD on fuselages.

On 23 August 1946, this Halifax QD-C, PP232, piloted by F/Lt Dabrowski crashed during a training flight. Cause of the accident, which happened near Lawshail Green (Suffolk) was defined as a pilot's error. Except the pilot, killed were F/Lt Matylis and F/Sgt Michalak. The right picture shows a burial party at the Newark cemetery. With its transfer to the Transport Command the unit was assigned new code letters: QD, previously NZ.

The Handley Page Halifax VIII, QD-C, at RAF Faldingworth in 1946.

Another 304 Squadron Halifax, QD-H, probably at the same time and place.

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