Tadeusz Sawicz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Tadeusz Sawicz

Polish pilot

Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1914

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 19-Oct-2011

Profession: military officer, fighter pilot

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Tadeusz Wladyslaw Sawicz (13 February 1914 – 19 October 2011) was a Polish World War II fighter pilot.
He served in the Polish Air Force, and after the fall of Poland, he served in the Polish and allied units in France and United Kingdom.
He was the commander of several air units, including the No.
315 Polish Fighter Squadron, 1st Polish Fighter Wing, 3rd Polish Fighter Wing, 131st (Polish) Fighter Wing and 133rd Fighter Wing.
He participated in the Battle of Britain and was ranked as the 82nd highest scoring Polish fighter pilot of the war. As well as receiving Poland's highest military decoration, the Virtuti Militari, he was awarded a British Distinguished Flying Cross, an American Distinguished Flying Cross and the Dutch equivalent, the Airman's Cross or Vliegerkruis.
In 2006 Sawicz was appointed honorary brigadier-general in the Polish Air Force. After the war he emigrated to Canada.
At his death he was believed to have been the last surviving Polish pilot to have fought in the Battle of Britain.