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1. • • On 4 July 1943, a Liberator II aircraft crashed off Gibraltar shortly after takeoff, killing all but one of the seventeen people on board. Among the victims were several senior Polish military leaders, including General Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
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   Why did General Sikorski die?

   • General Sikorski’s death on 4 July in a plane crash shortly after take-off from Gibraltar was a cataclysm for the Polish people as he had served both as the Polish Commander-in-Chief and the Prime Minister, leading the Polish government-in-exile. For the Polish people, then, Sikorski’s funeral at Newark had tremendous national implications.

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   Who was General Sikorski?

   • Sikorski (left) with General Kukiel, Clementine and Winton Churchill and the Polish ambassador Count Raczynski. (Guy Liddell's diary reveals that Kukiel was communicating with the German secret service.) General Sikorski, the Polish wartime leader, died 60 years ago today. Our correspondent looks at new evidence about his mysterious death

   Real History and the Death of General Sikorski

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   Was Sikorski murdered?

   • Sikorski was exhumed and his remains were examined by Polish scientists, who in 2009 concluded that he died due to injuries consistent with an air crash and that there was no evidence that Sikorski was murdered, ruling out theories that he was shot or strangled before the incident; however, they did not rule out the possibility of sabotage.

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   What happened to Sikorsky?

   • Again Mr. Sikorsky had supreme faith in himself, Virtually broke, he coaxed $2,500 from his shareholders and rebuilt the craft with better engines; and in September, 1924; the 14‐passenger, twinengine plane with a cruising speed of 100 miles an hour was put aloft.

   Igor Sikorsky, Helicopter. Pioneer, Dies - The New York Times

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   Władysław Sikorski's death controversy revolves around the death of the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile, General Władysław Sikorski, in the 1943 B-24 crash in Gibraltar.

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   May 8, 2024 · David Irving's history of the suspicous death of the WW 2 Polish commanding general. Skip to main content We’re fighting to restore access to 500,000+ books in court this week.

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   Dive into the enigmatic demise of one of Poland’s most pivotal figures, General Władysław Sikorski, the Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile, whose untimely death in a 1943 plane crash in Gibraltar sparked decades of speculation and conspiracy theories.

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7. www.fpp.co.uk › books › AccidentAccident: The Death of General Sikorski - David Irving

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   General Sikorski was sixty-two years old at the time of his death. He had been Chief of the Polish General Staff earlier on in his ca- reer, and he became Prime Minister of Poland in 1922 at a time

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   The Polish prime minister-in-exile died in a plane-crash upon takeoff from Gibraltar. Was it in fact an accident? The sole survivor of the crash, the Czech pilot, considered issuing a libel writ against Irving but realised that what he had written was simply not open to challenge in the British courts. Go to download page

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10. www.colchestercollection.com › titles › AAccident: The Death of General Sikorski by David Irving

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    David Irving's impecabbly sourced research into the mysterious death of Polish General Władysław Sikorski. On 4 July 1943, while returning from the Middle East, Sikorski perished, together with his daughter, his Chief of Staff, Tadeusz Klimecki, and seven others, when his aircraft, a Consolidated Liberator II, serial number AL523, crashed ...

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    Was the World War II Polish Prime Minister's death an accident or an assassination?