Looking at all of these pics with the captured and used by Nazi Germans Polish TK and TKS whippests I would say the Polish recent claimning for the war reparations from the Germany seem to be rightful.
"He just started practicing reveille-- and there they were!" Illustration by Sgt. Paul S. Snyder for US Army Air Forces depicting mechanics at work on a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk as a bugler cowers atop the nose of the aircraft, "Hubert ... by snyder" cartoon, _The Keesler Field News_, Keesler Field, Mississippi, circa 1942-1943.
Direct vertical aerial view from a U.S. Army Air Forces reconnaissance aircraft from approximately 25,000 feet of clouds and smoke over Hiroshima, Japan, after the "Little Boy" atomic bomb was dropped on the city; August 6, 1945