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Andrew Uditsky was the son of Polish immigrants. His actual name was Andrew Peter Judycki. When Frank, his oldest brother started school, the teacher spelled his name as Uditsky, which she said was the English way of writing Juditsky. The rest of the family have used this name ever since.

He graduated from Bloomfield High School in 1940 and worked as an assembler.

He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in Montreal, Canada on 29 September 1941.

The operation was carried out in conditions of very good visibility, there being no cloud. Very heavy and intense anti-aircraft fire was encountered over the target area and large cones of searchlights were a predominant feature of the defences. It is believed that they were hit by flak and finished off by night fighters. It is certain that the airplane was attacked by Oberfeldwebel Karl-Heinz Scherfling of 10./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from the Luftwaffe airbase in Leeuwarden.

The airplane was shot at several times, causing fire to break out. It could climb to higher altitude but a search light caught it and it could be observed, going straight down, burning intensely and crashing near a farm north of the road from Vlagtwedde to Bourtange.

The aircraft was shot down on its first mission.

The entire crew was killed. According to the police report the remains of the crew members were badly burned. They were buried in a common grave.

Flight Sergeant Uditsky is now buried in a common grave with John Macksimchuk and Ernest Moore, next to the other two crew members.