Joe Kmiecik
This is a story that was current when I was at Northolt just after Joe retired in the late70s -early 80s.
One of our chores on 207 in those days was to take senior officers on day staff visits to East Anglian bases and hang around for five or six hours until they were ready to come back. On one such trip,Joe and his nav went into lunch and went to pay the WRAF stewardess as they left the dining room.The girl asked Joe his surname, he said Kmiecik and she asked him how he spelt it .He said "It's hard". She wrote out a receipt for Flt Lt HARD!!
Joe died in an accident at his homeinSpain a few years after he left the RAF. The story of his escapen from Russia as a boy of 17 is told in his book "A Boy in the Gulag" published in 1983 and available from Amazon
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