Zdzisław Henneberg

Zdzisław Karol Henneberg VM, DFC, KZ***, CdeG (11 May 1911 – 12 April 1941) was a Polish airman who flew with the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain and a flying ace of the Second World War.

He graduated from the VIIIth Polish Air Force and before the war was an instructor at the advanced flight training school.

He was stationed at Châteauroux, which was abandoned by its French personnel on 17 June 1940, upon which Henneberg was evacuated to England, reaching it via Bourdeaux with three other pilots.

[4] On 12 April 1941 Henneberg led six Supermarine Spitfires in an attack on airfields near Le Touquet and Crecy.

He managed to fly his plane out of occupied France, but had to ditch it in the English Channel 20 miles from Dungeness.

Zdzisław Henneberg third from the right