Polish pilots in Pakistani Air Force, 1947

[2RHPZ]

Interesting ... brave men ...


Some of the Polish pilots who served in RAF during WWII and later joined PAF after 1947 when RPAF hired meceneries and outwside help to keep PAF afloat. Some of them became Pakistani citizens and and lived in Pakistan.

These pilots didn't want to join POlish AF since POland had become communist country and they didn't want to go back.

One of them named Turowicz who became Air Cdr. became a citizen and lived in Pakistan until his death in 1984. He was our ACAM i.e., Chief of Maintenance.

The book "The Gold Bird" is an amazing book which talks about creation of RPAF and later PAF.

Stanislaw Skalski
"Mike" Boleslaw Gladych
Marian Pisarek
Henryk Szczesny
Aleksander Gabszewicz
Witold Lokuciewski
Waclaw Krol
Miroslaw Feric
Mieczyslaw Mumler
Stanislaw Brzeski
Stanislaw Karubin
Karol Pniak
Marian Belc
Czeslaw Glowczynski
Waclaw Lapkowski
Mieczyslaw Adamek
Michal Cwynar
Boleslaw Wlasnowolski
Franciszek Jastrzebski
Wladyslaw Gnys

Links:

http://www.frenkenstein.com/ww2/poland/Poland.htm
http://www.combatsim.com/archive/htm/htm_arc1/ace-bob2.htm (Skalski)
http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/gladych/gladych.htm
http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/pisarek/pisarek.htm
http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/gnys/gnys.htm

[mack pl]

THX a lot CAG :hug:

something about Stanisław Skalski
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18372&highlight=skalski+circus

Regards

[perdurabo]

Stanislaw Skalski
"Mike" Boleslaw Gladych
Waclaw Krol
Wladyslaw Gnys

this guys are legend
Gladych was only Pole flying in USAF on thunderbolts he fought even in china aginst japs.

[mack pl]

he fought even in china aginst japs.
Witold Urbanowicz fight against Japans too(he shot down Zero above Hainan island)...

regards

[Alphabet76]

Very nice find CAG. Thanks woot

BTW the list of names you cite is, at least partialy, wrong. E.g.:

Miroslaw Feric
I remember that M. Feric died in an accident (during landing afair) 14/Feb/1942, don' t know if other names are correct.

Some pictures (from www.questionofhonor.com):

http://www.questionofhonor.com/questionofhonor/zumach_beaming_in_cockpit.jpg
Jan Zumbach (after WW2 fought as a mercenary in Biafra war of independence, among others)

http://www.questionofhonor.com/questionofhonor/04tolo_camp.jpg

Witold Lokuciewski (left) and two other Allied prisoners of war at Stalag Luft III.
http://www.questionofhonor.com/questionofhonor/05tolo_getshonor.jpg

General Sikorski presenting the Virtuti Militari, Poland's top military honor, to Jan Zumbach.
http://www.questionofhonor.com/questionofhonor/06tolo2.jpg

Witold Lokuciewski
http://www.questionofhonor.com/questionofhonor/07tolo_feric_funeral2.jpg

Witold Lokuciewski throwing earth onto Miroslaw Feric's grave.
http://www.questionofhonor.com/questionofhonor/11tolo%20_yanks.jpg

Witold Lokuciewski (third from left) with visiting American pilots.

[2RHPZ]

THX a lot CAG :hug:

something about Stanisław Skalski
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18372&highlight=skalski+circus

Regards

No problem, I am glad you Poles are happy with that ... and proud of them.


BTW the list of names you cite is, at least partialy, wrong. E.g.:

Thanx for corection Alphabet76, it is important to contribute to topics and make corrections!