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The 132nd Fighter Escadrille of the
The unit was formed in 1928 by renaming an earlier fighter unit.
On 1 September 1939 the escadrille had 10
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: ''132. Eskadra Myśliwska'') was one of the fighter units of the Polish Army in 1939. It was attached to the Army Poznań
An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...
.
History
The unit was formed in 1928 by renaming an earlier fighter unit.
Crew and equipment
On 1 September 1939 the escadrille had 10 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.
The air crew consisted of:
commanding officer kpt. pil. Franciszek Jastrzębski
his deputy ppor. pil. Henryk Bibrowicz
Pilots:
# ppor. Józef Czachowski (reserve)
# ppor. Mikołaj Kostecki
# ppor. Jerzy Łazowski (reserve)
# ppor. Paweł Łuczyński
# pchor. Bohdan Anders
# pchor. Witold Jaroszka
# pchor. Jan Maliński
# pchor. Kazimierz Olewiński
# pchor. Jan Pudelewicz
# pchor. Stefan Wapniarek
# kpr. Włodzimierz Chojnacki
# kpr. Wawrzyniec Jasiński
# kpr. Władysław Kuik
# kpr. Kazimierz Mazur
# kpr. Bronisław Raszewski
# kpr. Leon Skarbecki
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 ...
References
* Polish Air Force escadrilles {{PolishAirForce-stub