POLISH AIRMEN
DESTRUCTION OF GERMAN PLANES • BIG TOTAL FOR WAR. ONE SQUADRON ADDS TWENTY LAST MONTH. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 9.25 a.m.) RUGBY, August 12. Last month one Polish squadron with the R.A.F. destroyed 20 Messerschmitts over Northern France and the Channel. Poles with the Fighter Command shot down 500 German aircraft in Poland when their country was invaded. They have already destroyed half this number from bases in Britain. The squadrons are now officered by Poles and were led across the Channel by a Polish wing commander.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1941, Page 5
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90POLISH AIRMEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1941, Page 5
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