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Polish 114th Fighter Escadrille
The 114th Fighter Escadrille of the Polish Air Force (Polish: ''114. Eskadra Myśliwska'') was one of the fighter units of the Polish Army at the beginning of the WW2. Crew and equipment On 1 September 1939 the escadrille had 10 planes: 6 PZL P.11c and 4 PZL P.11a. The commanding officer was kpt. pil. Juliusz Frey and his deputy was Jerzy Szałowski pilots: # ppor. Marian Szalewicz # ppor. Stanisław Szmejl # ppor. Tadeusz Szumowski # pchor. Bogusław Mierzwa # pchor. Włodzimierz Miksa # pchor. Roman Stoga # pchor. Zbigniew Wróblewski # plut. Władysław Kiedrzyński # kpr. Czesław Bielecki # kpr. Andrzej Niewiara # st. szer. Benedykt Dąbrowski # st. szer. Józef Kędziora # st. szer. Bolesław Olewiński # st. szer. Jerzy Zieliński #Tadeusz Sawicz, from 5 September as the deputy commander See also *Polish Air Force order of battle in 1939 The following is the order of battle of the Polish Air Force prior to the outbreak of the Polish Defensive War of 1939. During the mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Air Force
The Polish Air Force ( pl, Siły Powietrzne, , Air Forces) is the aerial warfare branch of the Polish Armed Forces. Until July 2004 it was officially known as ''Wojska Lotnicze i Obrony Powietrznej'' (). In 2014 it consisted of roughly 16,425 military personnel and about 475 aircraft, distributed among ten bases throughout Poland. The Polish Air Force can trace its origins to the second half of 1917 and was officially established in the months following the end of World War I in 1918. During the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939, 70% of its aircraft were destroyed. Most pilots, after the Soviet invasion of Poland on September 17, escaped via Romania and Hungary to continue fighting throughout World War II in allied air forces, first in France, then in Britain, and later also the Soviet Union. History Origins Military aviation in Poland started even before the officially recognised date of regaining independence (11 November 1918). The very first independent units of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
114 Esk Mysl
114 may refer to: *114 (number) * AD 114 *114 BC *114 (1st London) Army Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers, an English military unit *114 (Antrim Artillery) Field Squadron, Royal Engineers, a Northern Irish military unit *114 (MBTA bus) *114 (New Jersey bus) See also *11/4 (other) 11/4 may refer to: *November 4 (month-day date notation) *April 11 (day-month date notation) *11 shillings and 4 pence in UK predecimal currency *A type of hendecagram In geometry, a hendecagram (also endecagram or endekagram) is a star polygon ... * Flerovium, synthetic chemical element with atomic number 114 {{Numberdis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PZL P
PZL (''Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze'' - State Aviation Works) was the main Polish aerospace manufacturer of the interwar period, and a brand of their aircraft. Based in Warsaw between 1928 and 1939, PZL introduced a variety of well-regarded aircraft, most notably the PZL P.11 fighter, the PZL.23 Karaś light bomber, and the PZL.37 Łoś medium bomber. In the post-war era, aerospace factories in Poland were initially run under the name WSK (Transport Equipment Manufacturing Plant), but returned to adopt PZL acronym in late 1950s. This was used as a common aircraft brand and later as a part of names of several Polish state-owned aerospace manufacturers referring to PZL traditions, and belonging to the ''Zjednoczenie Przemysłu Lotniczego i Silnikowego PZL'' - PZL Aircraft and Engine Industry Union. Among the better-known products during this period is the PZL TS-11 Iskra jet trainer and PZL-104 Wilga STOL utility aircraft. After the fall of communism in Poland in 1989, these ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadeusz Sawicz
Tadeusz Władysław Sawicz (13 February 1914 – 19 October 2011) was a Polish World War II fighter pilot. He served in the Polish Air Force, and after the fall of Poland, he served in the Polish and allied units in France and United Kingdom. He was the commander of several air units, including the No. 315 Polish Fighter Squadron, 1st Polish Fighter Wing, 3rd Polish Fighter Wing, 131st (Polish) Fighter Wing and 133rd Fighter Wing. He participated in the Battle of Britain and was ranked as the 82nd highest scoring Polish fighter pilot of the war. In addition to receiving Poland's highest military decoration, the Virtuti Militari, he was awarded a British Distinguished Flying Cross, an American Distinguished Flying Cross and the Dutch equivalent, the Airman's Cross or ''Vliegerkruis''. In 2006 Sawicz was appointed honorary brigadier-general in the Polish Air Force. After the war he emigrated to Canada. At his death he was believed to have been the last surviving Polish pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Air Force Order Of Battle In 1939
The following is the order of battle of the Polish Air Force prior to the outbreak of the Polish Defensive War of 1939. During the mobilization waves of March and August of that year, all peace-time units were deployed to airfields throughout the country and attached to respective commands of Air Force, Naval Air Service and squadrons supporting each of the Polish armies. In the last stages of the air campaign, whole units coordinated all actions in the fight against the invaders. The Polish fighters claimed 134 air victories, including 7 enemy aeroplanes shot down by Polish PZL P.7a fighters, 125 by PZL P.11 fighters of all types (mostly P.11c, several P.11a), and 2 downed by PZL P.11g. In addition, the Polish air forces had a number of PZL.37 Łoś and PZL.23 Karaś bombers, as well as a number of non-combat planes used for reconnaissance, observation, communications, army cooperation and transport. Among the latter were Lublin R-XIII, LWS-3 Mewa, RWD-8, RWD-14 Czapla, PWS-10 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
