POLISH AIRMEN
TRAINING IN ENGLAND VISITED AND INSPECTED BY THE KING. TWENTY-THREE NAZI PLANES SHOT DOWN BY POLES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) RUGBY, August 20. The King carried out his first inspection of Allied forces training in England, when he visited on Tuesday two squadrons of the Polish Air Force. His Majesty was received by General Sikorski and for over Iwo hours watched Polish airmen undergoing training. The King was interested to hear that Polish airmen serving with British fighters squadrons had already shot down 23 Nazi aircraft in recent raids on Britain.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1940, Page 6
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