Władysław Gnyś
Władysław Gnyś (24 August 1910 – 28 February 2000) was a Polish pilot of the Polish Air Force, a World War II flying ace and the first Polish victor in aerial combat in World War II. He briefly served as the commander of No. 317 Polish Fighter Squadron; he was shot down on his first mission over France on August 27, 1944. In 1931, Gnyś entered military service with the Polish Air Force. In 1933 he began air training in Grudziądz and later in 1936, was a flying instructor at the Polish Air Force Academy at Dęblin. During the war he scored six victories - three solo and three shared - in the Polish and French campaigns.Pawlak 2009, p. 200. The defense of Poland, September 1939 By May 1939 Gnyś had been posted to the Polish 121st Fighter Escadrille, 121st Eskadra Mysliwska (121st Fighter Escadrille) in the city of Kraków, equipped with obsolete PZL P.11c fighters. On 31 August the Squadron was assigned to operate with the III/2 Dywizjon (Group) and it relocated to a reser ...
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Sarnów, Kozienice County
Sarnów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniewoszów, within Kozienice County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Gniewoszów, Masovian Voivodeship, Gniewoszów, south-east of Kozienice, and south-east of Warsaw. References

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