Polish volunteer wings in Allied Air forces,1940-45

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A list of Polish volunteer wings in Allied Air forces in the 1940 to 1945 period. Part of the Polish contribution to World War II.

Contents 1 France 1.1 Armee De L´Air, May 10, 1940 1.2 Groupe de Chasse (Fighters) 2 United Kingdom 2.1 Royal Air Force (Home Command), June 6, 1944 2.2 Allied Expeditionary Air Force 2.3 Air Defence of Great Britain 2.4 2nd Tactical Air Force 2.4.1 No 84 Group 2.5 Coastal Command 2.6 Polish Fighting Team 2.7 First Base 2.8 Bases (in African area) 3 Soviet Union 3.1 V-VS (Voenno-vozdushniye Sily), 1943-45 3.2 Ludowe Lotnictwo Polskie (Polish People's Airforce) 3.3 1943 period 3.4 1944–45 period 4 United States

[edit] France

[edit] Armee De L´Air, May 10, 1940

• Zone D´Operations Aeriennes Des Alpes

[edit] Groupe de Chasse (Fighters)

• Groupe d Chasse GC 1/145 (attached) (Pol) Lion-Bron (Morane-Saulnier M.S.406, Caudron C.714 C1 "Cyclone", Koolhoven F.K. 58)

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] Royal Air Force (Home Command), June 6, 1944

• Bomber Command*
  • No. 1 Bomber Group
    • No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron "Masovia" RAF Faldingworth (Avro Lancaster Mk. I & III)
    • No. 301 Polish Bomber Squadron "Pomerania" RAF Faldingworth (Handley Page Halifax Mk. III)

[edit] Allied Expeditionary Air Force

[edit] Air Defence of Great Britain

• No. 11 (Fighter) Group
  • No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron "Kosciuszko" Horne (Supermarine Spitfire Mk VB)

• No. 12 (Fighter) Group
  • No. 309 Polish Fighter-Reconnaissance Squadron "Czerwien" "B" (Flight) Hutton Cranswick (Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIC)
  • No. 316 Polish Fighter Squadron "City of Warsaw" RAF Coltishall (North American Mustang III)

• No. 13 Fighter Group
  • No. 309 Polish Fighter-Reconnaissance Squadron "Czerwien" "A" (Flight) RAF Drem (Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIC)

[edit] 2nd Tactical Air Force

• • No. 305 Polish Bomber Squadron "Greater Poland" Lasham (de Havilland Mosquito F.B. Mk VI)

[edit] No 84 Group

• 131 Wing
  • No. 302 Polish Fighter Squadron "City of Poznan" Chailey (Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IX)
  • No. 308 Polish Fighter Squadron "City of Krakow" Chailey (Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IX)
  • No. 317 Polish Fighter Squadron "City of Wilno" Chailey (Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IX)
  • No. 318 Polish Fighter-Reconnaissance Squadron "City of Gdansk" Chailey (Supermarine Spitfire P.R. Mk. IX)

• 133 Wing
  • No. 306 Polish Fighter Squadron "City of Torun" Coolham (North American Mustang III)
  • No. 307 Polish Fighter Squadron "City of Lwow" Coolham (North American Mustang III)
  • No. 315 Polish Fighter Squadron "City of Deblin" Coolham (North American Mustang III)

• 144 Wing
  • No. 663 Polish Artillery Observation Squadron Westley (British Taylorcraft Auster III & IV)

[edit] Coastal Command

• No 19 (GR) Group
  • No. 304 Polish Bomber Squadron "Silesia" RAF Chivenor (Vickers Wellington Mk. XIV)

[edit] Polish Fighting Team

• Polski Zespół Myśliwski (Polish Fighting Team) (also known as Skalski's Circus) (Supermarine Spitfire F VB Trop and VC, later Supermarine Spitfire F IXC)

[edit] First Base

• West Kirby (England)

[edit] Bases (in African area)

• Bu Grara
• La Fauconnerie
• Goubrine
• Hergla
• Ben Gardane

[edit] Soviet Union

[edit] V-VS (Voenno-vozdushniye Sily), 1943-45

[edit] Ludowe Lotnictwo Polskie (Polish People's Airforce)

[edit] 1943 period

• 1st IAP (fighter regiment) "Warszawa" (Yak-1-1M and Yak-9)
• 2nd night bomber regiment "Krakow" (Polikarpov Po-2NAK)
• 3rd assault regiment (Ilyushin Il-2m3)

[edit] 1944–45 period

• 1st Mixed Air Corps (Bomber Division, Assault Division, Fighter Division and a mixed Division)

[edit] United States