Stanisław Zygmunt "Danny" Król (22 March 1916 – 12 April 1944) was a Polish Supermarine Spitfire fighter pilot flying from England when he was taken prisoner during the Second World War.

He escaped from an internment camp there and reached the port of Balchik sailing on 15 October 1939 to Beirut aboard the ship "Aghios Nikolaos".

[3][4] On 1 March 1940, he was with a group of Poles assigned to the air base at Tours to fly the Potez 25 while observers and gunners were training.

74 Squadron RAF at Gravesend in Kent as a pilot officer to fly bomber escort missions over the English Channel and Occupied France.

[5][6] On the afternoon of 2 July 1941, Król was flying Supermarine Spitfire Mark V (serial number "W3263") on his eleventh sortie, a fighter sweep in the area of St Omer when he was shot down by a Messerschmitt Bf 109 over France.

[7] He passed through several camps including Oflag VIB at Warburg before the Germans adopted a policy of banishing persistent trouble-makers and escapers to Stalag Luft III in the province of Lower Silesia near the town of Sagan (now Żagań in Poland).

Król and his friend, Flight Lieutenant Sydney Dowse,[8] attempted to escape by cutting through the barbed wire perimeter fence in late 1942.

[14] For twelve days and nights they marched through the snow following the railway lines eastwards past Liegnitz and Breslau remaining at large longer than almost all of the escapers.

[15] On 6 April 1944, the Germans circulated "wanted posters" with their photographs and, just 2 miles from the Polish frontier, they were arrested in a barn by a Hitler Youth member and some Home Guard men.