{"id":1212,"date":"2023-10-12T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blechhammer1944.org\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2024-02-16T19:31:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T19:31:09","slug":"gail-downs-na-tropie-historii-swojego-wujka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blechhammer1944.org\/index.php\/2023\/10\/12\/gail-downs-na-tropie-historii-swojego-wujka\/","title":{"rendered":"Gail Downs na Tropie Historii Swojego Wujka"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1212\" class=\"elementor elementor-1212\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-efd7ea1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"efd7ea1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-299fae8 de_scroll_animation_no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"299fae8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u00a0 \u00a0Odwiedzi\u0142a nas Gail Downs, autorka ksi\u0105\u017cki The Black suitcase mystery. Jej wujek radio operator George Elliott Rich (kuzyn ojca) zgin\u0105\u0142 w nalocie na Blechhammer, samolot zosta\u0142 zestrzelony nad Zdzieszowicami, a spad\u0142 w Mechnicy w okolicy stacjonuj\u0105cej tam baterii Flak. Samolot B-24 o numerach 42-78256 pilotowany przez Wilsona Goodalla zosta\u0142 zestrzelony 22 sierpnia 1944 roku w czasie ju\u017c powrotu do W\u0142och, po wykonanej misji nad Blechhammer. Z dziesi\u0119cio osobowej za\u0142ogi prze\u017cy\u0142o tylko dw\u00f3ch lotnik\u00f3w, na miejscu zgin\u0119\u0142o siedmiu lotnik\u00f3w, kt\u00f3rzy zostali pochowani na cmentarzu w Mechnicy. Jeden z lotnik\u00f3w, kt\u00f3ry by\u0142 nawigatorem zmar\u0142 w wyniku poniesionych ran w szpitalu w Ko\u017alu i zosta\u0142 pochowany na lokalnym kozielskim cmentarzu. Wszyscy lotnicy w 1947 roku zostali ekshumowani i ich szcz\u0105tki wr\u00f3ci\u0142y do USA, gdzie ponownie zostali pochowani. Gail Downs odwiedzi\u0142a nasze muzeum, Mechnice oraz cmentarz w Ko\u017alu. W Mechnicy odwiedzi\u0142a cmentarz, gdzie zapali\u0142a znicz w miejscu pierwszego poch\u00f3wku siedmiu lotnik\u00f3w. Odwiedzili\u015bmy r\u00f3wnie\u017c miejsce gdzie zgin\u0105\u0142 pilot, kt\u00f3ry zosta\u0142 odnaleziony bez spadochronu przy drodze pomi\u0119dzy Mechnic\u0105 a Kamionk\u0105 oraz budynek \u00f3wczesnej szko\u0142y gdzie przetrzymywani byli lotnicy, kt\u00f3rzy prze\u017cyli zestrzelenie samolotu.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-25e5ecc e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"25e5ecc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d170fb de_scroll_animation_no elementor-widget elementor-widget-gallery\" data-id=\"6d170fb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" 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Jej wujek radio operator George Elliott Rich (kuzyn ojca) zgin\u0105\u0142 w nalocie na Blechhammer, samolot zosta\u0142 zestrzelony nad Zdzieszowicami, a spad\u0142 w Mechnicy w okolicy stacjonuj\u0105cej tam baterii Flak. Samolot B-24 o numerach 42-78256 pilotowany przez Wilsona Goodalla zosta\u0142 zestrzelony 22 sierpnia 1944 roku [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41,35,52,54,40,42,55,53,51,50],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artykuly","tag-blachownia","tag-blechhammer","tag-gail-downs","tag-george-elliott-rich","tag-historia","tag-kedzierzyn","tag-mechnica","tag-the-black-suitcase-mystery","tag-wizyta-autorki","tag-wojenne-historie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blechhammer1944.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blechhammer1944.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blechhammer1944.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blechhammer1944.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blechhammer1944.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blechhammer1944.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/blechhammer1944.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blechhammer1944.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blechhammer1944.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blechhammer1944.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blechhammer1944.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}