Showing posts with label Poland 1940-1945. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poland 1940-1945. Show all posts
Tuesday, 7 July 2026

Curtiss Hawk 75A/Mohawk. Part fourteen. The Hawk in France. Part two.

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  (This post is a direct continuation from the previous one) The first aircraft of the new contract arrived in France in March 1940 and cons...
Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Bristol Beaufighter, part eleven. The Beau in Polish hands.

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  To write about the Beaufighter working with Poland, means to write about the history of No. 307 Polish Night Fighter Squadron, as it was t...
Tuesday, 18 February 2025

Supermarine Spitfire. European Users, part sixteen. Polish Spitfire users, part four.

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  As we have written in earlier posts, eight Polish Fighter squadrons served with the Royal Air Force (RAF), composed of seven fighter squad...
Thursday, 13 February 2025

Supermarine Spitfire. European Users, part fifteen. Polish Spitfire users, part three.

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  Some more Royal Air Force's (RAF) Polish squadrons and units were the following: No. 302 'City of Poznan' Polish Fighter Squad...
Tuesday, 4 February 2025

Supermarine Spitfire. European Users, part fourteen. Polish Spitfire users, part two.

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  Some more Polish squadrons equipped with the Supermarine Spitfire were: No. 306 'City of Torun' Polish Fighter Squadron: This squa...
Tuesday, 28 January 2025

Supermarine Spitfire. European Users, part thirteen. Polish Spitfire users, part one.

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  In 1939 Poland bough one Spitfire Mk. I, registered as L1066, which was shipped to Poland but eventually, it did not reach its destination...
Thursday, 25 August 2022

Miles M.14 Magister. Part five. British users

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  The Miles M.14 Magister is a British two-seat basic trainer which was developed during the 1930s to the specification T.40/36. After the s...
Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Bristol Blenheim, part four. More foreign users

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  The Bristol Blenheim was a British light bomber designed and manufactured by Bristol Aeroplane Company. It was used during the first half ...
Tuesday, 30 November 2021

Caudron C.440 Goéland, Foreign Users Part Two

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  The Caudron C.440 Goéland (French word for "Seagull") was a French six-seat twin-engined utility aircraft of the 1930s that saw ...
Tuesday, 12 January 2021

Morane-Saulnier Ms.406, Franco-Polish users

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  The Morane-Saulnier Ms.406 was the most manufactured French fighter of the World War 2.  The Ms.406 was very manoeuvrable and could withst...
Tuesday, 9 June 2020

Airspeed AS.10 Oxford, part five, various European Users

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The Airspeed AS.10 Oxford was a British twin-engined multi-purpose aircraft which was designed and developed by Airspeed Ltd. With more th...
Saturday, 7 March 2020

Fairey Battle, part five

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The Fairey Battle was a single-engine monoplane light bomber that was powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. During production it was fit...
Friday, 10 November 2017

Avro Lancaster Mk.I - Polish Users

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As many of you know, the Polish Air Force continued to fight under the colours of many of the air forces of the world, among them the Roya...
Monday, 18 September 2017

Amiot 143, various foreign users

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A little bit later than usual but now it's the turn for the foreign users of this French medium bomber as France wasn't the only o...
Monday, 3 April 2017

25pdr SP, tracked, Sexton

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Today we bring you another tracked land vehicle. The 25pdr tracked Sexton was a self-propelled artillery vehicle from the World War 2 that...