Skaryszewski Park named after Ignacy Jan Paderewski

This guide to Skaryszewski Park in Warsaw turns on the night of August 14, 1944, when a British Liberator bomber, flown by a South African crew for the RAF, was hit by anti-aircraft fire while dropping supplies to the Warsaw Uprising and came down among these trees. It follows the fate of the six men who died in the wreckage and Sergeant Henry Lloyd Lane, who survived, as well as the park's own renaming under communist rule after the pianist and statesman it once honored fell out of favor. Walk the paths beneath the ash trees and rose beds first laid out in 1905.