2nd Lt. observer
Tadeusz Kalinowski (1916–1939). Second lieutenant observer of the Polish Army, graduate of the Aviation Officer Cadet School in Dęblin, officer of the 22nd Bomber Squadron of the Bomber Brigade, participant in the 1939 Polish Campaign. He graduated from the Aviation Officer Cadet School in Dęblin (11th class). On 15 October 1938 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant observer and assigned to the 2nd Aviation Regiment in Kraków. During the 1939 Polish Campaign he served as an observer in the 22nd Bomber Squadron, operating within the Bomber Brigade. On 3 September 1939 he took off from the Kamień airfield near Radom in a PZL P.23 “Karaś” aircraft as crew commander, with pilot Corporal Gustaw Hławiczka and gunner Private A. Ustupski. The crew carried out a bombing mission against German armoured columns in the Radomsko–Pławno area, after which they were attacked by German fighters. Despite the rear gunner shooting down one of them, the aircraft was seriously damaged; during the forced landing Kalinowski sustained severe injuries. Wounded, he was rescued by local civilians and transported to Warsaw, where he died on 18 September 1939. He was buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw.
