Polish 123rd Fighter Escadrille
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The 123rd 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: 123. eskadra myśliwska) was one of the fighter units of the Polish Army in 1939.


History

In September 1939 the 123rd Fighter Escadrille was part of the
Pursuit 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 ...
. Some reports say that the 123rd Escadrille was a Kraków Army "Eskadra" (Flight) attached to the Brygada Poscigowa for the defence of Warsaw in 1939. Its 120 series Flight number indicates that claim. Reference: "Ciel de Gloire" website.


Crew and equipment

On 1 September 1939 the escadrille had 10 PZL P.7a airplanes. The air crew consisted of: commanding officer kpt. pil. Mieczysław Leonard Olszewski his deputy ppor. pil. Erwin Kawnik and 11 other pilots: # ppor. Stanisław Chałupa # ppor. Jerzy Czerniak # ppor. Feliks Szyszka # pchor. Władysław Bożek # pchor. Stanisław Czternastek # pchor. Antoni Danek # pchor. Tadeusz Kratke # kpr. Henryk Flame # kpr. Stanisław Widlarz # st. szer. Eugeniusz Nowakiewicz # st. szer. Stanisław Zięba


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 ...
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