Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Jerzy Główczewski - the last Polish fighter pilot who fought in 308 Squadron dies in New York April 13 th 2020 .
Jerzy Główczewski, pilot of 308 Squadron and architect of post-war
Warsaw.
After the war, as an architect, he worked in a team that rebuilt the
most valuable architectural monuments in Warsaw. Soldier of the
Independent Carpathian Brigade, and later a pilot of the No. 308 (City
of Kraków) Fighter Squadron. After the war, he finished studies at the
Faculty of Architecture of Warsaw University of Technology. He worked,
i. a., on rebuilding Warsaw. In the early 1960s, he became a lecturer at
North Carolina State University. In 1964 he went to Aswan, were he was
entrusted with the reconstruction and modernization of this ancient
city. He worked in the USA and various Arab countries until retirement.
He lives in New York. He is the author of memoirs: Accidental Soldier,
Optimist After All and The Last Fighter Pilot.
He could bestow a few people on his rich life story.