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Marian Bełc graduated from pilot training at Lublinek air base near Łódź.
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Career
On 2 November 1934 he was assigned to the 143rd Fighter Escadrille in Toruń. In autumn 1937 he was transferred to the Polish 152nd Fighter Escadrille in Wilno. During the Invasion of Poland Bełc shot down his first plane, on 3 September a Bf 109.
After the Soviet invasion of Poland he was evacuated to France via Romania.
He served in the Krasnodębski section of the Groupe de Chasse et de Défense I/55 under the command of Zdzisław Krasnodębski. In the same unit served two other Polish aces: January Zumbach and Stanisław Karubin.
After the capitulation of France he came to the United Kingdom. All pilots of the Krasnodębski section were posted to the Number. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron.
In the Battle of Britain Bełc downed 5 German planes.
In 1942 Bełc became an instructor in 58 OTU. On 27 August 1942, in a training flight with a British pilot their plane crash-landed. Both pilots were killed.
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August 27, 1942 (aged 28)