Polish 114th Fighter Escadrille
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The 114th 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: ''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 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.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 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 Kingdo ...
, from 5 September as the deputy commander


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