It was during this time that an opportunity arose to revisit all those bombing targets and areas where he had supported secret underground resistance forces during the war. After the war, he was to enter the cut-throat world of international trade, setting up an extensive network of clients in the industrial areas of the western world. He was also engaged in a number of low flying operations, organised in order to drop containers of explosives and ammunition in an effort to assist groups of partisans in enemy occupied countries. He is the founder of the Warsaw Uprising of August of 1944 - Air Bridge Memorial adjacent to the Polish war graves at Newark on Trent.Īs a British airman of the Second World War, Jim Auton MBE dropped bombs on enemy targets all over central and eastern Europe. After retirement in 1980 he became an authorized researcher in the archives at the Auschwitz death camp. He was appointed as British Honorary Pilot of the Czechoslovak Air Force and he holds an Attendance Diploma from the Polish Senior Officers' Flying School at Deblin. Jim Auton MBE holds 20 awards - Presidential Gold Order of Merit (Poland),French Legion Of Honour - Presidential Gold Medal for Merit (Czech), Polish Cross of Valour, Czech Military Cross, Warsaw Uprising Cross, Armia Krajowa Cross and four Slovak and Russian medals.
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