Polish 113th Fighter Escadrille
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The 113th Fighter Escadrille of the
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 mil ...
(Polish: ''113. Eskadra Myśliwska'') was one of the fighter units of the Polish Army at the beginning of
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
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Crew and equipment

On 1 September 1939 the escadrille had 10 planes: five
PZL 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 five PZL P.11a. The commanding officer was pil. Wieńczysław Barański and his deputy was ppor. pil. Włodzimierz Klawe. Pilots # ppor. Hieronim Dudwał # ppor. Włodzimierz Klawe # ppor. Stanisław Zatorski # pchor. Rajmund Kalpas # pchor. Jerzy Radomski # pchor. Henryk Stefankiewicz # pchor. Janusz Szaykowski # plut. Mieczysław Każmierczak # plut. Kazimierz Sztramko # kpr. Michał Cwynar # st. szer. Mieczysław Adamek # st. szer. Zdzisław Horn # st. szer. Krzysztof Krzyżagórski # st. szer. Witold Lipiński


See also

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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 ...


References

* Polish Air Force escadrilles {{PolishAirForce-stub