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4 July 1943 – 11:07pm a Liberator bomber from RAF Transport Command takes off from Gibraltar for England. On board is General Władysław Sikorski, Prime Minister of Poland’s London-based government in exile and Commander-in-Chief of its armed forces, returning from visiting Polish troops in the Middle East. On take-off, the aircraft climbs normally from the runway, levels off to gather speed but then suddenly loses height and crashes into the harbour. The 62-year-old Polish general is killed, along with 15 others. The sole survivor is the Czech-born pilot, Eduard Prchal, who is rescued by an RAF launch. The bodies of five passengers and crew, including Sikorski’s daughter, are never found. This episode pieces together the events of that night, the cause of the crash and examines the murky world of WWII international espionage and the case for an assassination.
