The 112th Fighter Escadrille of the Polish Air Force

Polish Air Force

The Polish Air Force is the military Air Force wing of the Polish Armed Forces. Until July 2004 it was officially known as Wojska Lotnicze i Obrony Powietrznej...

 (Polish: 112. eskadra myśliwska) was one of the fighter units of the Polish Army.

History

The Escadrille was created in 1919 by a merger of the earlier 18th Reconnaissance Escadrille and the 19th Fighter Escadrille.

In September 1939 the 112th Fighter Escadrille was incorporated into the Pursuit Brigade

Pursuit Brigade

The Pursuit Brigade was a Polish World War II unit of the Polish Air Force. It took part in the Polish Defensive War of 1939 as the main aerial reserve of the commander in chief and was used for air cover of the Polish capital of Warsaw. It was similar in shape to the Bomber Brigade...

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Crew and equipment

On 1 September 1939 the escadrille had 10 planes: 6 PZL P.11c and 4 PZL P.11a

PZL P.11

The PZL P.11 was a Polish fighter aircraft, designed in the early 1930s by PZL in Warsaw. It was briefly considered to be the most advanced fighter aircraft design in the world...

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The air crew consisted of:
commanding officer captain Tadeusz Opulski,
his deputy Lieutenant Stefan Stanisław Okrzeja,
and 15 other pilots:

1. por. Wacław Łapkowski
2. ppor. Jan Daszewski
   Jan Daszewski
   Jan Kazimierz Daszewski was a fighter pilot in the Polish Air Force in World War II.Jan Daszewski was born on 5 May 1914 in Kiev. He trained at the "School of Eaglets" in Dęblin. In 1938 he was posted to 112 Fighter Escadrille and participated in the September 1939 campaign in Poland, claiming a...
   
   
3. ppor. Witold Łokuciewski
4. ppor. Wiktor Strzembosz
5. pchor. Janusz Marciniak
6. pchor. Władysław Nowakowski
7. pchor. Antoni Polek
8. plut. Karol Krawczyński
9. plut. Ludwik Lech
10. kpr. Bernard Ryszard Górecki
11. kpr. Jan Musiał
12. st. szer. Piotr Paweł Gallus
13. st. szer. Leon Nowak
14. st. szer. Zygmunt Rozworski
15. st. szer. Władysław Wieraszka