andrzej kowerski (; Åabunie, zamoÅÄ county, lublin province, eastern poland, 18 may 1912jan larecki, krystyna skarbek: agentka o wielu twarzach (krystyna skarbek: agent with many faces), p. 95. â 8 december 1988, munichjan larecki, krystyna skarbek: agentka o wielu twarzach (krystyna skarbek: agent with many faces), photo of kowerski's tombstone, facing p. 145.) was a polish army officer and soe agent during world war ii. from 1941 he used the nom de guerre "andrew kennedy." ==life== before the war kowerski lost a part of one leg in a hunting accident. during the german invasion of poland in september 1939, lieutenant kowerski fought gallantly as a member of poland's 10th motorized cavalry brigade, commanded by col. stanisÅaw maczek, winning his country's highest military decoration, the virtuti militari. when soviet forces invaded eastern poland on september 17, forcing poland's government to evacuate south into romania, kowerski and his "black brigade" (so called after their black leather jackets) evacuated to neighboring hungary. there he busied himself covertly exfiltrating interned polish, and other allied, military personnel out of hungary. when kowerski subsequently worked for british intelligence and the special operations executive, he was given the cover name "andrew kennedy." having lost part of a leg in a prewar hunting accident, he became the first disabled man to complete soe's parachute training. (his lover, krystyna skarbek, aka christine granville, was the first woman to pass the same course.) ==see also==  *krystyna skarbek *w. stanley moss, with whom kowerski investigated the disappearance of nazi gold at the end of world war ii. ==notes==  ==references== * madeleine masson, christine: a search for christine granville, g.m., o.b.e., croix de guerre..., london, hamish hamilton, 1975 (republished by virago, 2005). * jan larecki, krystyna skarbek: agentka o wielu twarzach (krystyna skarbek: agent with many faces), warsaw, ksiÄÅ¼ka i wiedza, 2008, isbn 978-83-05-13533-7. == external links == *  (includes photos of kowerski / kennedy and his grave.)  
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