Monument to Polish pilots who were shot down here in 1944 by a German fighter while returning from a mission to drop supplies for the Warsaw Uprising.

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The monument commemorates seven Polish pilots who died in a plane crash during World War II, on the night of August 28, 1944, shot down during a flight with supplies for insurgent Warsaw. They were returning by Halifax JP295 after being dropped off in Italy.
More on this topic on Wikipedia: pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomnik_Lotnik%C3%B3w_Polskich_w_Banicy

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Location: Sękowa, powiat gorlicki, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

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1. State Forest Training Center – Shepherd's Hut in Czarne loop from Kwiatoń

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