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Stanisław Karubin (29 October 191512 August 1941) was a Polish
Virtuti Militari, Silver Cross
Cross of Valour (Poland), three times
Distinguished Flying Medal
fighter ace
A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The exact number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an ace is varied, but is usually co ...
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 ...
in World War II with 7 confirmed kills.
Biography
Karubin after graduating from Non-Commissioned Officer's School for minors was assigned to the 111th Fighter Escadrille. On 3 September 1939 he shot down his first plane, a Bf 110. On 23 January 1940 he arrived in France via Romania and Greece. He served in the Krasnodębski section of the Groupe de Chasse et de Défense I/55, on 3 June he downed aDo 17
The Dornier Do 17 is a twin-engined light bomber produced by Dornier Flugzeugwerke for the German Luftwaffe during World War II. Designed in the early 1930s as a ''Schnellbomber'' ("fast bomber") intended to be fast enough to outrun opposing air ...
or a Do 215. After the capitulation of France he came to the UK. He took part in the Battle of Britain in the No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron and destroyed 5 German aircraft. On 6 September 1940 he was hit and jumped with a parachute. On 18 September he received the Virtuti Militari. He was sent to No. 55 Operational Training Unit RAF
No. 55 Operational Training Unit RAF was an Operational Training Unit of the Royal Air Force, formed in November 1940 at RAF Aston Down to train fighter pilots.
History
55 OTU RAF was an Operational Training Unit of the Royal Air Force, formed i ...
. On 12 August 1941, flying in the clouds, Karubin struck a mountainside, at the same way also died another Polish pilot, Zygmunt Höhne.
Aerial victory credits
* Bf 110 - 3 September 1939 * Do 17 or Do-215 - 3 June 1940 * Bf 109 - 31 August 1940 * 2 Bf 109 - 5 September 1940 Arkady Fiedler described this fight in the book Squadron 303 * He 111 - 6 September 1940 * Bf 109 - 5 October 1940Awards
Virtuti Militari, Silver Cross Cross of Valour (Poland), three times Distinguished Flying Medal
References
Further reading
* Olgierd Cumft i Hubert Kazimierz Kujawa, ''Księga lotników polskich poległych, zmarłych i zaginionych 1939-1946'', editor Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, Warsaw 1989, wyd. I, p. 316-317. * Tomasz Demidowicz "Lotnicy Podlasia. Słownik biograficzny", Biała Podlaska 2005, p. 87. * Arkady Fiedler, ''Squadron 303''. * . *Wacław Król
Wacław Król (1915–1991) was a Polish military pilot and an air colonel of the Polish Air Force. A veteran of the Polish Air Forces in France and Great Britain during World War II, he served with distinction alongside the Royal Air Force and ...
, ''Polskie skrzydła nad Francją'', Wydawnictwo "Książka i Wiedza", Warsaw 1986, , s. 221-222.
* Tadeusz Jerzy Krzystek, Anna Krzystek: ''Polskie Siły Powietrzne w Wielkiej Brytanii w latach 1940-1947 łącznie z Pomocniczą Lotniczą Służbą Kobiet (PLSK-WAAF)''. Sandomierz: Stratus, 2012, s. 264.
* Jerzy Pawlak, ''Polskie eskadry w latach 1918-1939'', Wydawnictwa Komunikacji i Łączności, Warsaw 1989, .
* Piotr Sikora: ''Asy polskiego lotnictwa''. Warszawa: Oficyna Wydawnicza Alma-Press. 2014, s. 292-293.
* Józef Zieliński: ''Asy polskiego lotnictwa''. Warszawa: Agencja lotnicza ALTAIR, 1994, s. 44.
* Józef Zieliński: ''Lotnicy polscy w Bitwie o Wielką Brytanię''. Warszawa: Oficyna Wydawnicza MH, 2005, s. 81-82.
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The Few
Polish World War II flying aces
Recipients of the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari
Recipients of the Cross of Valour (Poland)
1941 deaths
1915 births
Royal Air Force personnel killed in World War II
Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Medal