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Old 2nd Apr 2013, 09:08
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Quite true JW411 but they didn't move east until early 1945 IIRC.

267 Sqn's greatest contribution with the Dakota was in the middle east and the Med. In the summer of 1944, it was 267 who flew the WILDHORN sorties into Poland, even bringing back bits of a V2 on one occasion. They collected at least one DSO and a shed load of DFCs/DFMs for that bit of work and the gratitude of the Poles; the latter providing a Polish speaking co-pilot on each WILDHORN. Some guys may remember Jack Blocki an ATC who retired to Cyprus and wrote a book called something like "First Tango in Warsaw". Jack was a Pole and flew on the first WILDHORN.

Amazing story, if anyone's interested, I'll post a summary of a presentation I gave a couple of years ago about the Warsaw Airlift and the WILDHORN sorties before it.

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