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Description: | A ts account (69pp, written in 1970 in fairly good English) about his experiences in the Polish Air Force (1919 - 1945), with details of service with the air forces of Turkey and the Austro-German controlled Polish Legion (1915 - 1918), fighting Bolsheviks, forming his own squadron alongside the American Koskuiszco squadron, his appointment of Commander in Chief of the Polish Air Force (1926 - 1939), being compelled to resign for repeated attacks on Poland's air policy (March 1939), his assertion that the failure of the Polish Air Force in September 1939 was caused by the activity of fifth columnists within the Polish Government and PAF, being given the job of Deputy Chief of Army Administration, helping to evacuate Polish forces and the shipment of the Polish gold reserve to Rumania, his imprisonment on corruption and treason charges for which he was exonerated and released (1943), serving as a ferry pilot on the Royal Air Force (RAF) Central Africa Air Route, later acting as the Polish Senior Air Officer in the Middle East (1944). Together with a ts photocopy (27pp, partly in Polish) of material intended to show the attitudes and prejudices of some of his fellow Poles, and German statistics to show that bad or faulty planning explained the disaster to Poland in 1939, with various letters, newspaper extracts, notes, and eight photographs. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Polish Air Force | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Rayski, Ludomil Antoni | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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