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175 Polish Pilots are listed below, in alphabetical order.

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Name
Rank
Unit
Informations
Vict. Sures
Vict. Prob.
Civil-statut
Photo
Indiv Card
Citations
NASTOROWICZ Tadeusz
Sergeant
DAT Toulouse on May 11, 1940
   
NIEWARA Andrzej
Master-Corporal
GC I/145
GC I/8 from June 16 to 18, 1940
   
NOVAKIEWICZ Eugeniusz
Master-Corporal
GC II/7
2
4
   
NOWAK Léon
Master-Corporal
DIAP de Lyon-Bron
GC II/8 on May 20, 1940
Killed in aerial combat on May 27, 1940    
OBUCHOWSKI Jan
Lieutenant
GC I/145
Killed in aerial combat on June 9, 1940    
OPULSKI Tadeusz
Captain
DAT Romorantin
   
PALAK Jan
Sergeant
GC I/145
   
PAMULA Leopold
Lieutenant-Colonel
Léopold PAMULA began his military career as an infantryman in the Austro-Hungarian Army before joining the Polish Army in 1919. It was not until 1923 that he joined the Bydgoszcz Flying School.
Lieutenant-Colonel at the time of the attack on Poland by the German Army, he was severely wounded in aerial combat. Like many Poles, he managed to reach France via Romania.
He was posted to the Polish pilot training centre at Lyon-Bron, then appointed Commander of the 3rd Polish Fighter Squadron in France before joining the GC I/2.
On 19 June 1940, he managed to take a boat from Bordeaux to Plymouth.
Too old (40) to fly a plane, he was to be appointed commander of a Polish Fighter Squadron, but died of a blood infection after dental treatment..
Born 15 November 1898, Buczacz, Poland
Died at Nocton (Great Britain) on 9 August 1940
 
PARAFINSKI Mieczyslaw - Jan
Sergeant
GC I/145
on June 14, 1940
Sergeant Mieczyslaw PARAFINSKI was born in 1914. After the Polish defeat, he went to France and fought first in the GC I/145 then, on 14 June, he was posted to the GC I/1. On 18 June 1940, he left this group with the seven other Polish pilots for England.
Mieczyslaw PARAFINSKI joined the 308th Polish Squadron and was killed on 26 February 1941 when his Hawker Hurricane crashed during a training flight in Great Britain.
Born in 1914 in Krakow (Poland)
Died in Baginton, Warwicks (Great Britain) on 26 February 1941
 
PASKIEWICZ Ludwik
Lieutenant
DIAP de Lyon-Bron
GC II/8 on May 20, 1940
   
PATEREK Edward
Sergeant
GC I/145
   
PENTZ Jan
Captain
GC II/6 on March 21, 1940
 
 
PIATKOWSKI Stanislaw
Master-Corporal
GC III/9 from June 11 to 25, 1940
   
PIETRASIAK Adolf
Sergeant
DAT Bourges
   
PIETRZAK Henryk
Master-Corporal
GC III/9 from June 11 to 25, 1940
   
PONIATOWSKI Jerzy
Sub-Lieutenant
GC II/10 on June 5, 1940
Killed in aerial combat on June 7, 1940    
POPEK Jozef
Sergeant
DAT Cognac on June 1, 1940