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Old October 3rd, 2021, 06:46 AM
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Just d'like to add info about Polish heritage flight in England part of Battle of Britain Flight they have two historical aircraft's original Spitfire who served during WWII in 315 & 317 Polish Squadrons and Huricane Mk.I in paint of Sgt Josef Frantisek who was Czechoslovak but fights together with Polish in 303 division probably because he flown before with them on Polish and French sky in two campaigns so he stayed with them even when 312 Czechoslovak RAF division were formed.

And movie about polish pilots in England during Battle of Britain. - An 80th Anniversary Tribute part movie/part documentary 32:58 minutes
https://youtu.be/2lhoytCWsEY
Second movie Polish Flying Legends 6:55 for 75 years anniversary of BofB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NKaYXIlgos

Also movie about 31 Division of SAAF "The Men who went to Warsaw" documentary interview with South African's aviators who take part in Warsaw Airlift in 1944 on boards of Liberators https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHWg5LQkOjA

Short movie 6:48 CGI based on historical data how flight over ruined Warszawa looks like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_svAHZHE1uA



Here their website https://polishheritageflight.com/

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Just a 3 cents, to make things clear: Polish "dywizjon" unit is not a Division (big land army unit, which is "dywizja" in Polish - there were air divisions in USSR only), but a name used in air force or cavalry for a battalion-size unit. In the air force it is traditionally translated as Squadron - and such names were adopted in Polish Air Force in Great Britain for squadrons (although some say, that Squadron should be in fact "eskadra" in Polish, and they are right - these words have the same origin and are both equivalent of French Escadrille and Italian Squadriglia).

In Polish pre-war aviation, eskadra had 10 fighters, and two eskadras formed dywizjon.

"Klucz" is the smallest section, an equivalent of Flight, usually with 3 aircraft.
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