Lieutenant Józef Stainisław Kosacki

Lieutenant Józef Stainisław Kosacki

Lieutenant Józef Stainisław Kosacki was born on April 21st 1909 in Poland and in 1933 graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology with a degree in Electrical Engineering. Shortly before the invasion of Poland in September 1939 by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, he enlisted in the army. He became an officer in the Special Signals Corps, a unit that developed electronic appliances for the military. After the fall of Poland, Kosacki was interned in Hungary, but escaped in December 1939 and made his way to Paris. Here, he was reunited with remnants of the Polish Army, but along with these forces was forced to flee to the UK after the fall of France in June 1940.

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