 After the fall of France, like many other Polish pilots he did not surrender and took a Bloch MB.152 across the Mediterranean to Algeria, from where he went to Casablanca in Morocco and via Gibraltar to Great Britain, arriving on 17 July.After four months training at No.5 OTU at Aston Down, he joined the newly recreated Polish Air Force in the Great Britain.In Great Britain he was assigned on 20 October to No.