During World War II, Eugeniusz Lisicki served in the Polish Air Forces in the West as an aircraft mechanic in the 300th Bomber Squadron “Land of Masovia”. On Monday, 24 March, the Polish Aviation Museum was visited by his widow — Mrs Jolanta Lisicki, thanks to whom her husband’s valuable aviation mementoes have been added to our collection for the “Wings and People of the 20th Century” exhibition.
Eugeniusz Lisicki was born on 8 December 1919 in the Polish city of Równe. He graduated from the Aviation NCO School for Minors in Bydgoszcz in 1938, and shortly afterwards was called up to the 4th Aviation Regiment in Toruń as an aircraft mechanic in the Training Squadron. After the defeat of the September Campaign, he made his way through Romania, the Black Sea and France to Great Britain. He received RAF service number 780111 and was assigned as an aircraft mechanic in the 300th Bomber Squadron, where he served throughout the war. After the end of hostilities, he remained in Great Britain.
After her husband’s death in 2009, Mrs Jolanta Lisicki lovingly and meticulously cared for his aviation mementoes — including those he had managed to take out of Poland at the beginning of the war. Thanks to the suggestion of a family friend, Mr Michał Przybycień, who is also a friend of our institution, Mrs Jolanta Lisicki made the wise, though difficult, decision to donate many of her husband’s mementoes to the Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków, which already holds a considerable collection of exhibits related to the pilots and crew of the 300th Bomber Squadron — including Capt. Pilot Walerian Sosiński, Col. Pilot Stanisław Cynara and 2nd Lt Navigator Kazimierz Kuczyński.
Among the items donated to the Museum by Mrs Jolanta Lisicki were:
Mrs Jolanta Lisicki, who travelled to our Museum from Great Britain, was moved to see her husband’s mementoes displayed in illuminated cases and properly conserved for future years. Thanks to her generosity, for which we are very grateful, the memory of Eugeniusz Lisicki will endure through generations, and his story will remain a testament to patriotism and love of aviation that visitors from around the world will be able to admire.
