Kate Felmingham
General Wadysaw Sikorski, the Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile, died in 1943, and his body was given to the Krakow Department of Forensic Medicine for forensic examination. The British committee looking into the tragedy determined it had been an accident after General Sikorski perished in the crash of a Liberator aircraft at Gibraltar. Concerns about the General's death have been raised on numerous occasions over the past few decades, and the assassination theory has gained a lot of traction. The General's body, which had been interred in the Royal Castle Church on Wawel Hill in Krakow, was dug up on November 25, 2008, and carefully investigated. Numerous fractures of the skull, spine, and limbs were found during the investigations, and their characteristics matched those of an aviation accident. It was impossible to determine whether the air crash had been caused by sabotage or a tragic accident based solely on the examination of the corpse. Even while there were no obvious signs of intravitality, such as bruises or fat emboli, several fractures exhibited characteristics that suggested they had been sustained intravitally. These were indicated by fractures of the transverse processes of the lumbar vertebrae, the sustentaculum tali of the calcaneal bone, and the spiral fracture of the femoral bone shaft.