Colonel Julian (Roh) Kowalski
In 1943 he served as an instructor pilot with the 58th OTU ( Polish Flight Training Unit) at Grangemouth. He wrote after the war that training new pilots was often riskier than combat. "You could at least guess what the enemy was going to try".
February 1944 saw him promoted to Wing Commander first for 133rd Wing and in April as commander for 131st Wing. Both of these were Polish formations consisting of 3 Fighter Squadrons each. During a D-Day support action on June 20th he was given credit for probably destroying a Focke Wulf 190.
Late October 1944 saw him transferred to the command of all Polish personnel in 11th Fighter Group. He served there and in a staff role until the disbandment of the Polish Air Force in Great Britain in 1947. Given the postwar effect of the Yalta conference placing Poland under Soviet control, he remained in the U.K. where he became a businessman. He died on the 7th of December 1986 in Ipswich, U.K.