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The 112th Fighter Escadrille of the Polish Air Force (Polish: ''112. Eskadra Myśliwska'') was one of the fighter units of the Polish Army.
History
The Escadrille was created in 1919 by a merger of the earlier 18th Reconnaissance Escadrille and the 19th Fighter Escadrille. In September 1939 the 112th Fighter Escadrille was incorporated into thePursuit Brigade
The Pursuit Brigade ( pl, Brygada Pościgowa) was a Polish World War II unit of the Polish Air Force. It took part in the Polish Defensive War of 1939 as the main aerial reserve of the commander in chief and was used for air cover of the Polish c ...
.
Crew and equipment
On 1 September 1939 the escadrille had 10 planes: 6PZL P.11c
The PZL P.11 was a Polish fighter aircraft, designed and constructed during the early 1930s by Warsaw-based aircraft manufacturer PZL. Possessing an all-metal structure, metal-covering, and high-mounted gull wing, the type held the distinction o ...
and 4 PZL P.11
The PZL P.11 was a Polish fighter aircraft, designed and constructed during the early 1930s by Warsaw-based aircraft manufacturer PZL. Possessing an all-metal structure, metal-covering, and high-mounted gull wing, the type held the distinction of ...
a.
The air crew consisted of:
commanding officer captain Tadeusz Opulski,
his deputy Lieutenant Stefan Stanisław Okrzeja,
and 15 other pilots:
#por. Wacław Łapkowski
#ppor. Jan Daszewski
#ppor. Witold Łokuciewski
#ppor. Wiktor Strzembosz
#pchor. Janusz Marciniak
#pchor. Władysław Nowakowski
#pchor. Antoni Polek
#plut. Karol Krawczyński
#plut. Ludwik Lech
#kpr. Bernard Ryszard Górecki
#kpr. Jan Musiał
#st. szer. Paweł Gallus
#st. szer. Leon Nowak
#st. szer. Zygmunt Rozworski
#st. szer. Władysław Wieraszka
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 mobilization waves of March and August of that year, all peace-time units were deployed to airfields throughout the c ...
References
* Polish Air Force escadrilles {{PolishAirForce-stub