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Andrzej Kowerski

Andrzej Kowerski (b. 1912-1988) was a Polish Army officer and SOE agent during the World War II.

He deserves mention as a brave SOE agent during World War II. Born in Poland, he was a Polish army officer at the time of the invasion of Poland in 1939. After Poland's government moved to Romania on September 18, Kowerski go to Hungary where he established a network where he attempted to help members of the Polish armed forces to escape from the camps where they had been interned. Kowerski went underground, went to work for British Intelligence and was given the undercover name Andrew Kennedy. Having lost a leg in a shooting accident during the 1930s, Kowerski became the first disabled man to pass SOE's parachute training. (His lover, Krystyna Skarbek, was the first woman to pass the same course.)

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