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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Robert Orlando Peterson, RCAF
« on: Thursday 29 March 18 22:18 BST (UK) »
Hi Joan and DTD
You may already have this by now - a book by Stanislaw Derus, "SZLI PARTYZANCI: Zarys działalności I Batalionu 16 pp. Armii Krajowej Ziemi Tarnowskiej, kryptonim "BARBARA" w 1944 r." published in 1996 in Lubaszowa, Poland.
It lists the four surviving airmen from the shot-down Halifax as being on the strength of this Home Army (AK) battalion, specifically the "Leliwy" company, and includes a photograph of Peterson and Jolly with a Polish partisan. They apparently fought at the battle of Jamną in which 600 partisans were encircled by more than 2,000 troops primarily from the 14th Waffen-SS Galizien division.
Do you know if any of the airmen or their family members ever mentioned fighting alongside the partisans? My interest is in the partisans and the local population.
You may already have this by now - a book by Stanislaw Derus, "SZLI PARTYZANCI: Zarys działalności I Batalionu 16 pp. Armii Krajowej Ziemi Tarnowskiej, kryptonim "BARBARA" w 1944 r." published in 1996 in Lubaszowa, Poland.
It lists the four surviving airmen from the shot-down Halifax as being on the strength of this Home Army (AK) battalion, specifically the "Leliwy" company, and includes a photograph of Peterson and Jolly with a Polish partisan. They apparently fought at the battle of Jamną in which 600 partisans were encircled by more than 2,000 troops primarily from the 14th Waffen-SS Galizien division.
Do you know if any of the airmen or their family members ever mentioned fighting alongside the partisans? My interest is in the partisans and the local population.