Aleksander Jan Wróblewski

Aleksander Wróblewski (born March 26, 1915 in Łódź, died March 25, 1942 shot down over the English Channel ) - lieutenant pilot of the Polish Air Force in Great Britain .

 Biography 
Son of Aleksander and Marta. Student of the Warsaw University of Technology, member of the Łódź Aeroclub, graduate of the Air Force Reserve Officer Cadet School. He was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant on January 1, 1937.

Mobilized in August 1939, he was assigned to the 131st Fighter Squadron as a pilot. On September 6, he joined the 111th  .

In the winter of 1939/40 he was a Tatra courier on the Warsaw–Zakopane–Budapest route. In May 1940, he escaped from Hungary to France and then to Great Britain. In February 1941, he underwent fighter training at 57 OTU in Hawarden . On 21 April 1941, he became a pilot of 303 Squadron.

Second Lieutenant Wróblewski, pursuing bombers, flew to Łódź, where he had to make a landing due to engine failure. After emergency repairs, he decided not to return to Kobylepol, but to fly to base in Lublin.

 Bibliography 

 Olgierd Cumft, Hubert K. Kujawa: Book of Polish Airmen – Fallen, Dead and Missing 1939-1946. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo MON, 1989, p. 545. ISBN 83-11-07329-5 .
 In Honor of Fallen Airmen 1939–1945, ed. Józef Zieliński. Warsaw: ALTAIR Aviation Agency, 2005, p. 206. ISBN 83-86217-50-2 .
 Krzysztof Cieślak, Wojciech Gawrych, Andrzej Glass: Fighter Aircraft of September 1939. Warsaw: NOT-Sigma Publishing House, 1987, p. 64. ISBN 83-85001-11-5 .

 Alfons Filar : Tales of Tatra couriers. Warsaw, KiW, 1969, pp. 119-135.

 List of Tatra couriers
 THE 303 POLISH FIGHTER SQUADRON PILOTS' LIST  
 A Polish pilot who believed in the peaceful intentions of the Soviets in September 1939!
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