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Polish Spitfire Pilot taken prisoner

The Netherlands

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Polish pilot Tadeusz Jan Legowski (1920-2011) accompanied with his spitfire a squadron of American bombers during a bombing of the car factories of Antwerp on May 4, 1943. During this flight he was shot down by a German Fighter

Legowski's Spitfire crashed near Hulst. Because of the strong southeast wind, he drifted with his parachute to the Aandijkepolder near the hamlet of Zaamslagveer.

Upon landing he was wounded and was captured by the Germans and placed in a police cell in Hulst.

A prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III, Legowski survived the war, graduated as a biologist in England and finally settled in Switzerland after his marriage

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Zaamslagsedijk 6, Reuzenhoek Zeeland, Nederland

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