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- Coverage is exactly "Polskie Siły Powietrzne"
300 Squadron
The photograph top left on the left hand page is of a poster titled '300 Bomb Squadron' and has the sub-titles '14.09.1940 Port Boulogne' and '25.4.1945 Berchtesgaden'
The…
Tags: 300 Squadron; Lancaster
No 16 Polish Service Flying Training School Card
Tags: aircrew; Flying Training School; pilot; RAF Newton; training
Z F Klatkiewicz’s pilots flying log book. Two
Story of my war
Tags: 61 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 95 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb struck; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; flight engineer; ground personnel; Halifax; Initial Training Wing; Ju 52; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; propaganda; RAF Bardney; RAF Bridlington; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Burn; RAF Dalcross; RAF Kinloss; Stirling; submarine; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Gen's Story
The first part of the memoir talks of the many trials Genek went through both in attempting to rejoin his Polish Air Force unit and, once the Germans overran the country, escape to England.
Ganek…
Tags: 105 Squadron; 106 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Battle; bombing; C-47; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; ground crew; hangar; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); killed in action; love and romance; Magister; mess; Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); navigator; observer; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bramcote; RAF Carlisle; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Henlow; RAF Hucknall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; Red Cross; searchlight; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 5; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Certificates of knowledge
#1 certifies that Eugeniesz is familiar with a Wellington and its systems.
#2 certifies that Eugeniesz is familiar with a Battle and its systems.
Tags: aircrew; Battle; Wellington
Polish airmen
#1 five airmen, including Eugeniesz, in flying kit and goggles lying on the grass.
#2 six airmen in flying kit with helmet and goggles standing in a line.
Tags: aircrew
Prisoner of war photographs
#1 three men preparing food outside. Behind are tents.
#2 eight men lying in a group on the ground.
#3 12 men grouped outside a wooden hut.
#4 a runner winning the race watched by a large group of men, some on top of a large…
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; sport
Interview with Peter Sewerin
Two airmen and a soldier
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer