Frank Olynyk

[Russell]

Extremely sad to hear of the passing of my friend and colleague Frank Olynyk. A valued member of the Grub Street authors club, and a colleague on the Mediterranean Air War series I had known Frank for 30 years or more and we met up every few years at our favourite London place the National Archives. Always friendly, always helpful he is a sad loss. His sister is going to try to sort out his collections. It will be a difficult task as she cant even get on his computer as yet. For those who don't know Frank has been collection fighter pilot data for years especially on aces. He has copies of all reprots available on claims by the USAAF,USMC and US Navy fom WWI to date, and the same for the British services, and the RAAF, RNZAF, Fins and Germans and much more. He had a huge book collection, certainly every book on or written by an ace and most of them signed. My hope is they will find a good home where his legacy can live on. Good bye Frank, thank you for being a friend and colleague and rest in peace.

Russell Guest

[Leo Etgen]

Hello

What very sad news to read ... It seems as we are losing some very knowledgeable individuals recently. SES and now Olynyk ... He contributed to a thread that I posted just last month so I was quite taken aback to read this. May he rest in peace and condolences to his loved ones.

Leo

[Chris Goss]

I never met Frank but whenever I asked him a question, he would reply almost by return and if he could not answer the question, would try his utmost to come up with an answer. Hard act to follow and I like others will miss him