At the municipal cemetery in Trouville-sur-Mer is the grave of Polish aviator Platoon Pilot Leon Nowak, who in 1940 took part in the air battles in France as part of the flight crew commanded by Lt. Pilot Ludwik Paszkiewicz (in the ranks of Groupe de Chasse No. II/8). His Bloch MB-151 298/Y-785 aircraft crashed on 28.05.1940 near Deauville-Saint Gatien airfield during a training flight. Leon Nowak was initially laid to rest in the cemetery at Saint-Gatien-des-Bois before being exhumed and moved to the municipal cemetery at Trouville-sur-Mer, military plot no. 23. French soldiers who took part in fighting in the First World War and 4 British soldiers who died during both world wars are also buried here.
Leon Nowak, born on 29.03.1920, was a graduate of the Aviation NCO School for Minors in Bydgoszcz. He served in the 1st Airborne Regiment in Warsaw, in the 112th Fighter Squadron, in which he took part in the September Campaign. After the capitulation, he made his way through Romania to France.