Wikipedia:Peer review/Wladyslaw Sikorski/archive1

Wladyslaw Sikorski

A very interesting bio I'd like to see FACed one day. But as any article that contains words 'controversy' and 'conspiracy theory', this needs help, like NPOVing. ATM I am not sure what to fix/expand - I'd appreciaty any other comments you may have. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 21:36, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Add another conspiratorial note: I don't see mention here of Sikorski's pilot, the Czech Prchal, sole survivor of the crash. Why was a Czech assigned to fly Sikorski, when there were so many fine Polish pilots, while the Czechs held a long-standing antagonism toward the Poles?

The article otherwise looks good overall, except for needing language editing in places. Logologist 10:16, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I expanded the article yet again. As for Prchal, here is the answer from Irving's book: Through the Polish Consul, General Sikorski asked one favour of the R.A.F.: he had been greatly impressed by the skill and experience of the R.A.F. pilot who had flown him out from England, Flight Lieutenant Edward Prchal: could he have the same pilot to fly him back? The favour was granted, and Prchal and his crew were detailed by R.A.F. Transport Command to fly Sikorski’s party back to England, in the same Liberator, AL523, as had flown them out. To mark his esteem of Prchal, General Sikorski procured a silver cigarette case in Cairo, and had it inscribed and presented to the officer. That Prchal was the pilot for the return flight purely as the consequence of a specific request from Sikorski is one of the main factors in dismissing the credibility of certain allegations that followed the disaster --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 18:54, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)