[2] After the Soviet invasion of Poland the school began the evacuation to Romania, unfortunately on 18 September Bargiełowski was captured by Red Army and sent to Yelenovskiye Rudniki on Black Sea, where he worked at a stone pit until May 1940.

Due to starvation he suffered from blindness, dysentery, and scorbutic paralysis.

After the Sikorski–Mayski agreement, Bargiełowski was released on 4 September 1941 and arrived in Scotland by sea on 13 November 1941.

[4] On 12 June 1944 he scored his first double victory shooting down two Fw 190.

303 Polish Fighter Squadron where he served until it was disbanded on 11 December 1946.