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American connection of 303 - Kosciuszko Squadron ? A very strong one. The squadron was actually founded by Americans twenty years before World War II began. In 1919, as Poland was fighting a nasty little war with the newly created Soviet Union, a former U.S. Army pilot named Merian Cooper, who...

I was only joking. :lol: It was "SO bloody obvious" a joke. :lol: :lol:

The Polish Fighting Team (PFT), popularly called "Skalski's Circus", was made up of the best Polish fighter pilots. All fifteen of them volunteered and Capt. Stanislaw Skalski was their commander. Polish pilots arrived at Bu Grara airfield (250 km west of Tripoli) on 13 March 1943. They at first...

PZL P.11c 1934 Model Type: Fighter Weight: Empty: 1022 kg Take-off: 1650 kg Max Take-off: 1800 kg Length: 7.55 m Wingspan: 10.72 m Height: 2.85m Engine:PZL Bristol Mercury VS2 Power:Take-off:560 HP Speed: Sea level: 276 km/h At 5000m: 375 km/h Cruise: 250 km/h Stalling: 120 km/h...

"Looks like you were having a go there."---------> Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 5:00 am Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let me guess, he's Polish descendant. .......by the way.......are you anti-polish?... :lol:

It was "SO bloody obvious" a mistake. :lol: and "he" did not go at you- "you had a go at him"[/i]

cheddar cheese I didn't tnow you knew mi............... :lol:

After WWII there was almost 30,000 Polish soldiers in Britain. Ofcourse only percentage of them were pilots.

Although No 318 Sqn was officially a fighter- reconnaissance unit, it was employed exclusively on tactical recce duties in Italy, and thus failed to score a single aerial kill. Despite its lack of success in the air as a fighter squadron, it was the only PAF unit to boast a Bf 109 in its...

...........bloody obvious. (??????) sombody has to be Polish to publish a picture of Polish Spitfire????? Hey buddy!..... these boys fought for your country sometimes paying the biggest price (life) and you're supposed to be the person who publishes those pictures and writes about them so...

Buddy you missed the point............ Average person in United States doesn't even know that there were any Polish fighters at the Battle of Britain. I just learned from the book that I'm reading (that I mentioned before) that almost 30,000 Polish pilots and flight personals were fighting...

Yes, my father was Polish and if that makes me Polish too, I'll be more then honored.

Three Spitfire Mk. I fighters of No. 54 Squadron on their way back to Hornchurch in September of 1940. During the Battle of Britain, five Polish pilots fought within this RAF unit.

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