On May 18, 2024, during the “Night of Museums” at the Museum of the Silesian Battle of Fuel “Blechhammer 1944” in Kędzierzyn-Koźle, dr. hab. Jan M. Waga presented the results of research conducted for 4 years by scientists from the Faculty of Natural Sciences on the effects of air military operations during World War II in the Kozielska Basin. The lecture titled “Geoinformatics and geophysics in the archeology of conflict. Niecka Kozielska” by Jan M. Waga, Bartłomiej Szypuła, Kazimierz Sendobry, Mariusz Grabiec, Krzysztof Jochymczyk and Maria Fajer presented the cognitive and application aspects of the research, with particular emphasis on the role of the used methods. The study conducted by the team of researchers recently has been focused on checking the usefulness of remote sensing, geoinformatics and geophysical methods in detecting unexploded bombs and searching for burial places of fallen pilots of the 15th Air Force of the United States. To find the graves of soldiers, researchers contacted Chad Lindell, a representative of pilots’ families.
Visit the website of the “Blechhammer-1944” Museum http://www.blechhammer1944.pl/, the website of the Blechhammer-1944 Kędzierzyn-Koźle Association https://www.facebook.com/blechhammer1944/ and the website https://www.post-journal.com/news/top-stories/2022/05/b-24-pilot-from-russell-shot-down-over-poland-in-1944/
Note author: dr hab. Jan M. Waga
