While the allied air lift to aid the Uprising proved a disaster, the heroism of the Commonwealth and Polish pilots who flew missions to relieve Warsaw cannot be called into question. Standing in Skaryszewski Park on Warsaw’s east bank is a memorial to commemorate these airmen. It was here that a Liberator plane crash landed in 1944, killing all but one of the seven crew on board. The sole survivor, Henry Lloyd Lyne, unveiled the monument in 1988, and today it is the sight of the British Embassy’s annual Remembrance service. In 2000 Lloyd Lyne, a retired farmer, was presented with a recovered piece of the plane by Queen Elizabeth II.

fot. Alina Zienowicz, wikipedia.org