Life remembered - Tadeusz Gora

General Tadeusz Gora

Jan 4, aged 91. Polish pilot who completed a remarkable glider flight
on May 18 1938 when he flew a PWS-101 glider from Bezmiechowa, in
south-east Poland, to a small town near Vilnius, a then world record
distance of 577.8 kilometres. For this he was the first recipient of
the Lilienthal Medal awarded by the Fédération Aéronautique
Internationale. During the war he flew with the RAF, serving on three
Mustang-equipped Polish fighter squadrons which flew ground attack
sorties during the Normandy landings and intercepted the V-1 flying
bombs. For his wartime service he received two of Poland's highest
awards, the Virtuti Militari and the Cross of Valour.

From UK Telegraph