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Polish Airmen Memorial Cross

Yorkshire And The Humber

North Yorkshire

Richmondshire

Burton-Cum-Walden

Polish Airmen Memorial Cross

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Polish Airmen Memorial Cross

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Yorkshire Dales National Park

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Location: Burton-Cum-Walden, Richmondshire, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire And The Humber, England, United Kingdom

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December 4, 2023

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In the middle of the hills, rather surprisingly, but appropriately, there is this war memorial: in memorial of a Polish air crew who crashed here in a severe snowstorm in 1942. Only one member of that crew survived.

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