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Re: Polish pilot : Lt. Robert JANOTA
Janota served with GC I/145, then as a commander of ECD Tours, and then ECD Angers. On 18 June they flew to Bordeaux and on 19 June, together with ground personnel boarded a Czechoslovak ship. For some reason Janota and groundcrew Gerard Zygmunt did not manage to the harbour. Janota presumably was not taken PoW, until captured by Italians during an escape attempt. Escaping again he was recaptured and finally found his way to Colditz. Transferred to yet another camp, he escaped in 1944 and joined communistic Polish Air Force, only to be killed in training on 22 April 1944.
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