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Ryszard Jakimowicz

ID: OS-007114-P

Ryszard Jakimowicz

Quebec | Canada
First name:
Ryszard
Last Name:
Jakimowicz
Date of birth:
1919
Date of death:
2010
Age:
91
Biography:

Ryszard Jakimowicz (1919-2010); in 1939 he made his way to France via Romania, Hungary, Greece, where he joined the Polish army. He then made his way to England, where he served as a navigator pilot in the RAF. In 1945 he married Halina Wodzyńska (1922-2002), a volunteer active in the Women's Auxiliary Air Service (members were popularly known as WAAFs, after the British prototype PLSK-Women's Auxiliary Air Force).

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