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Polish airmen

© Tim Smith

Polish members of the Air Bridge Association gathering at Newark Cemetery in 2009 for the annual remembrance of the 250 airmen who died trying to supply resistance fighter during the Warsaw uprising in 1944. Many Polish squadrons were posted near Newark during the Second World War and 346 Polish airmen who died during the conflict are buried there.

Chosen as an acknowledgement of how many groups are forced to migrate as a result of war and conflict.