Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
Last August there was the 81th anniversary of Jim and his crew’s first flight to Warsaw. They took off in Italy, avoided the German air defences over Yugoslavia, Hungary and Czechoslovakia then over Poland dodged both German and Russian flak and night fighters. The crew had all agreed that they would not fly home until they made 100% sure the AK had received the much needed weapons, ammunition, medical supplies and explosives. So for fifty minutes their aircraft circled burning Warsaw even as other aircraft were shot down around them until Jim (its bomb aimer) finally found the AK drop zone and released the 12 precious containers.
Two nights later Jim and his crew returned to Warsaw with more essential supplies.
Text on the Memorial in Newark Cemetery: In tribute to 250 airmen of Britain, the Commonwealth and Poland who sacrificed their young lives in desperate attempts to fly from distant RAF bases in Italy with essential supplies for the front line city of Warsaw during the 1944 uprising.
Last August there was the 81th anniversary of Jim and his crew’s first flight to Warsaw. They took off in Italy, avoided the German air defences over Yugoslavia, Hungary and Czechoslovakia then over Poland dodged both German and Russian flak and night fighters. The crew had all agreed that they would not fly home until they made 100% sure the AK had received the much needed weapons, ammunition, medical supplies and explosives. So for fifty minutes their aircraft circled burning Warsaw even as other aircraft were shot down around them until Jim (its bomb aimer) finally found the AK drop zone and released the 12 precious containers.
Two nights later Jim and his crew returned to Warsaw with more essential supplies.
Text on the Memorial in Newark Cemetery: In tribute to 250 airmen of Britain, the Commonwealth and Poland who sacrificed their young lives in desperate attempts to fly from distant RAF bases in Italy with essential supplies for the front line city of Warsaw during the 1944 uprising.
