MY HOLIDAY in MY COUNTRY - POLAND

He went to war with V-2 rockets  from a wooden hut near Olkusz, he went to war with V-2 rockets

 The cottage stands at the foot of the castle in Rabsztyn and smells intensely of fresh wood.  It is from 1862. It was replaced with contemporary ones when the highland carpenters were rebuilding it in a new place last year. Because previously it stood on the site of the former village of Skalskie, at today's ul. Jasna, on the outskirts of Olkusz. It was there that Antoni Kocjan, a man who is said to have "won the Second World War", came into the world. Thanks to him, the plans of the secret weapon of Adolf Hitler, namely V-1 missiles and V-2 missiles, reached the West.

 Antoni Kocjan was one of the most outstanding, pre-war constructors of gliders. The 1,400 gliders built in Poland in the 1930s, half are the constructions of Antoni Kocjan. More than 40 national and international records were established on the gliders of its construction, and the Bąk glider was considered the best in the world for many years. During the occupation, Antoni Kocjan was the head of the ZWZ / AK Air Force Department, who discovered the secrets of the German weapons V1 and V2. Therefore, Antoni Kocianie is said to have been "the man who won the war." Antoni Kocjan was shot on August 13, 1944 in Warsaw.