Jan Henryk Janczak
- Birth Date:
- 28.02.1916
- Death date:
- 29.10.2016
- Burial date:
- 10.11.2016
- Length of life:
- 100
- Days since birth:
- 39510
- Years since birth:
- 108
- Days since death:
- 2741
- Years since death:
- 7
- Extra names:
- Jan Henryk Janczak
- Categories:
- Actor, Military person, Officer, Pilot, Victim of repression (genocide) of the Soviet regime, WWII participant , Writer
- Nationality:
- pole
- Cemetery:
- Cmentarz Komunalny Północny
1 Surname JANCZAK 2 Name Jan Henryk 3 Born 1916-02-28 Warsaw, Poland
4 Parents Jan Janczak and Natalia Aleksandra nee Legat – a dainty landed proprietors from Mazovia Province
5 Citizenship Polish
6 Nationality Polish 7 Religion Roman Catholic
8 Reference (RAF) 703396
9 Rank Flight Lieutenant (retired)
10 Trade Wireless Operator / Air Gunner
11 Pre-war No. 1 Air Regiment (1937 – 1939) Okecie, Warsaw, Poland
12 POW Prisoner of War (1939 – 1941) Workuta, Siberia, Soviet Union
13 Service in Royal Air Force 1942 – 1947
14 Training
- No. 18 Operational Training Unit (1942) RAF Bramcote, Warwickshire
- No. 1 School of Technical Training (1942 – 1943) RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire
- No. 4 Radio School (1943) RAF Madley, Herefordshire
15 Operational
No. 307 Squadron (1943) RAF Fairwood Common, Glamorganshire RAF Predannack, Cornwall RAF Drem, East Lothian
No. 131 Polish Wing (1944 - 1946) B-10 Plumetot, France B-31 Fresnoy Folny, France B-51 Vendeville, France B-70 Deurne, Belgium B-61 St. Denijs Westrem, Belgium B-60 Grimbergen, Belgium B-77 Gilze Rijen, Holland B-101 Nordhorn, Germany
16 Campaign
- Battle of Poland (1939 - “Fall Weiss”)
- Battle of the Atlantic (1943)
- Battle of Normandy (1944 – “Operation Overlord”)
17 Award 15 medals, including twice Order of Polonia Restituta (4th & 5th classes)
18 Post-war Air Traffic Controller (1947 – 1977) WAW, EPWA Okecie Warsaw Airport
19 Creator Author of three books (only Polish text):
- “Podciete skrzydla” / „Clipped wings” (1976, Warsaw, MON)
- Przez sniegi Koltubanki i piaski Kermine” / „Through snows of Koltubanka and sands of Kermine” (1991, Warsaw, Bellona)
- “Halo, tu Okecie wieza” / “Hello, here Okecie Tower calling” (2008, Gdansk, Marpress)
20 Actor Participant of two feature films in a role of ATC
- Air Traffic Controller:
- “Dwaj panowie N” /
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01.09.1939 | Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War (Polish: Kampania wrześniowa or Wojna obronna 1939 roku) in Poland and the Poland Campaign (German: Polenfeldzug) or Fall Weiß (Case White) in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, while the Soviet invasion commenced on 17 September following the Molotov-Tōgō agreement which terminated the Russian and Japanese hostilities (Nomonhan incident) in the east on 16 September. The campaign ended on 6 October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland.