On 13 September, a monument was unveiled at the Amert in Veghel for the Polish pilot Tadeusz Józef Kołoszczyk. The monument stands at the crash site where the pilot lost his life in 1944.
Now wedged between an industrial estate and the motorway, the monument stands in a pleasant green spot. It is a plaque bearing, among other things, a portrait of the pilot and a text in Polish with a Dutch translation. The Dutch text reads:
Plt.
Tadeusz Józef Kołoszczyk
Born 22 November 1919
Grzymaczów, Sieradz region, Poland
Pilot
Polish Air Force in the West
306 Sqdn. “Toruński”
Killed in action on 27 September 1944
during a combat flight
at this location
North American P-51D Mustang FZ196 UZ-D
In memory of
Tadeusz Józef Kołoszczyk
and of all who fell
for our freedom and yours
Honour to the heroes,
honour to their memory
At the bottom left is an image of a Mustang, and at the bottom right a QR code that leads to a page about the pilot. Although the QR code leads to the Polish version of the site, an English version is also available.
