Aleksander Chelstowski - Continued

All of the current combat mission Chelstowskie completed without loss or serious (not counting individual przestrzelin) damage to the aircraft. The twelfth mission, however, (M�nster bombing, 22 January), his plane was caught in the headlight beams and shot by anti-ground and antiaircraft artillery attacked and hit by a German fighter. Despite this, the pilot successfully led the plane to the airport and see Chelstowski and his colleagues will soon be able to take the next mission. Over the next five months of his crew was still 22 more sorties, taking part in the bombing of cities and military installations in Germany and occupied France. June 20, 1942, during its 34th Chelstowski mission, along with other crew members crossed the border, including 200 hours spent during flight operations. According to the British legislation is the maximum number of hours that pilots can take place in one round of hostilities, because after this flight Chelstowski was directed to another post and from August 3, worked as an instructor of navigation at Bramcote, a month later he was promoted to captain. For two and a half years (from March 1940 until the transfer to the position of instructor in Bramcote) kept a diary that the efforts of his nephew, Peter, was released in print by the IPN in 2010.

From late November 1942 to early February 1943 underwent training in the Central Navigation School in Cranage, then (April), three-month course in the Elementary Flying Training School in Hucknall, and then the three-month training in Secondary Flying Training School in Newton, followed - September 20 1943 - received a pilot's badge. Although it has not started the second round of combat missions and remained as a navigation instructor. In education, the air remained until the end of the war, it also worked for another year after the war (held occasionally transport flights to the Far East, including the Rangoon), rising (1 January 1946) to Major. Earlier (May 1945) Alexander Chelstowski married to Anna d'Orleans

In 1948 Chelstowski decided to leave Britain, but made the decision that they do not come to the Polish. Given the difficulties met during this time immigrants to the United States decided to go to Chelstowscy Argentina. Alexander failed to take a job in the local aviation, and therefore support the family (he was born in 1946 in the UK have a daughter and a son who was born already in Argentina, in 1952) working as a plumber. With the help of friend and colleague of Squadron 300 after nine years in Argentina has been able to come to the United States. He arrived here in 1957, a year later drove him wife and children. They settled in San Jose, where Alexander started his own company Chelstowski local heating, bought a house, provided education for children. He died in 1973, was buried in a Catholic cemetery in Santa Clara