131. Fighter Escadrille was a unit 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 ...

at the start of the

Second World War 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 ...

. The unit was attached to the

Poznań Army Army Poznań ( pl, Armia Poznań) led by Major General Tadeusz Kutrzeba was one of the Polish Armies during the Invasion of Poland in 1939. Tasks Flanked by Armia Pomorze to the north and Łódź Army to the south, the Army was to provide fla ...

Equipment

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 of ...

airplanes.

Air Crew

Commanding officer: kpt. pil. Jerzy Zaremba Deputy Commander: por. pil. Zbigniew Moszyński Pilots: # ppor. Włodzimierz Gedymin # ppor. Lech Grzybowski # ppor. Zbigniew Rowiński (reserve) # ppor. Aleksander Wróblewski (reserve) # pchor. Alfons Kabat # pchor. Florian Kortus # pchor. Mirosław Nowak # pchor. Jerzy Salski # kpr. pchor. rez. Bolesław Rychlicki # kpr. Tomasz Gabryel # kpr. Brunon Kroczyński # kpr. Stanisław Matuszak # kpr. Romuald Żerkowski

References

* Polish Air Force escadrilles {{PolishAirForce-stub

Equipment

Air Crew

See also

References