Bogusław Krawczyk

Bogusław Dionizy Krawczyk (15 May 1906 – 19 July 1941) was a submarine commander of the Polish Navy during World War II.

Biography He was the son Władysław and Michalina Witkowska. He graduated in 1925 in Hrubieszów, in the same year he entered the Polish Naval Academy where he graduated, valedictorian in 1928. He was sent to complete his education in France at the École d'Application des Enseignes de Vaisseau during which he took an instructional cruise on the French armored cruiser Edgar Quinet. In 1929 he came back to Poland and was assigned to the Pinsk Flotilla. He spoke four languages fluently, played piano, painted, wrote poems and sailed.

During the Invasion of Poland, Wilk patrolled the Gdańsk Bay, and on 3 September deployed her mines as planned. The submarine was attacked several times, Krawczyk decided to join England After the reparations in Dundee, Wilk was assigned to the 2nd Submarine Flotilla patrolling on the North Sea. On 3 May 1940 he was promoted komandor podporucznik (commander) soon after he was sent on a secret mission to Sweden to negotiate the release from internment of three Polish submarines (, and ) interned in September 1939. However, due to the allied defeat in Norway, the collapse of the French front and increasing German pressure on Swedish government, the mission ended in failure. Krawczyk returned empty handed.

On 19 July 1941 Bogusław Krawczyk committed suicide, the reasons for which are not fully known.

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