Tadeusz Władysław Sawicz (13 February 1914 – 19 October 2011) was a Polish World War II fighter pilot.
He participated in the Battle of Britain and was ranked as the 82nd highest scoring Polish fighter pilot of the war.
[2][3] He claimed a half-share in damaging a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 on the first day of the war, while flying a PZL P.11c.
[2] On 14 September, he was assigned a courier mission,[2] delivering messages to General Juliusz Rómmel, and Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły, flying into the encircled pocket at Młynów.
[3] After training in Lyon, on 1 June 1940 he was assigned to Groupe de Chasse III/10 stationed in Deauville.
[2][3] After the fall of France, like many other Polish pilots he did not surrender and took a Bloch MB.152 across the Mediterranean to Algeria, from where he went to Casablanca in Morocco and via Gibraltar to Great Britain, arriving on 17 July.
[2][3] After four months training at No.5 OTU at Aston Down, he joined the newly recreated Polish Air Force in the Great Britain.
[1] He is ranked (on Bajan's list) as the 82nd highest scoring Polish fighter pilot of the war.
He chose not to return to Poland, where the new communist government was hostile towards those who had served in the Polish Armed Forces in the West.
[2] At his death on 19 October 2011 he was believed to have been the last surviving Polish pilot to have fought in the Battle of Britain.