Last update: 31 March 2006

No. 300 Squadron crew.			No. 308 Squadron on the continent. Still few names are missing.			No. 304 Squadron crew during Gen. Izycki's visit.			Probably a member of No. 317 Squadron.
who is with Longin Winski (wearing scraf)				Probably early No. 300 Squadron, Hemswell.				who is with Stefan Tronczynski (right)
No. 316 Squadron members needs positive identification.						Early No. 309 Squadron. Persons to be identified.
No. 308 Squadron over the continent						Names of this 300 Sq Wellington crew			Polish airmen in France
						Probably No. 307 Squadron airmen.			Who is it at Blackpool Pleasure Beach?
						Who receives gongs from hand of President Raczkiewicz?
Who is Stanislaw Birtus'  (leather coat) company?						Half of those members of No. 317 Squadron  needs identification.
Who is the 315 Sq plane?						318 Sq. Who's behind the mask?			Sitting fourth from left is Leon Kowalczyk, 304 Sqn. pilot. Who is he with on this group photo?
These 306 Squadron's pilots needs positive identification.						Who are these men?
Who are these young Polish airmen, and from what unit?						Who is this member of No. 316 Squadron of a name "Peter" or Piotr?
I suspect it to be No. 304 Squadron. But couldn't recognize any face.						Signed as "Wal"(?) in 1941, this Polish airman died later on in Lancaster of 300 Sqdadron.

QUESTIONS ANSWERED:

SOLVED!    ni_51 Zygmunt Gruszczynski	SOLVED!  Sgt Stanislaw Laskowski, Ferry pilot.			SOLVED!    ni_47		SOLVED!    ni_50 Alfred Wlodarski
SOLVED!    ni_14 Wojciech Popiel	SOLVED!  F/O Radwanski (left) and F/Lt Galicki			SOLVED!    ni_26 Walenty Krepski		SOLVED!    ni_16  Edwin Malinowski			SOLVED!    ni_9 Piotr Syperek
SOLVED!   ni_19 Wlodzimierz Link (right) and Leszek Szczerbinski			SOLVED!    ni_31				SOLVED!     ni_25  Jerzy Zbrozek
SOLVED!    ni_40 Jerzy Szymankiewicz		SOLVED!   Stanislaw Kon			SOLVED!      ni_24 Franciszek Kornicki			SOLVED!      ni_6 Zygmunt Krzeptowski
SOLVED!    ni_42 Adam Habela		SOLVED!    ni_43 Leslaw Szczerbinski			SOLVED!     ni_10 Zbigniew Sosnowski			SOLVED!      ni_24 Wladyslaw Mielczarek

    31 March 2006. Krytyna Rawicz recognized her father, Slawomir Rawicz at  paf_forquestions , standing at extreme left. The photograph probably depicts Polish students at Hucknall. On   ni_8 , the group photo of early 309 Squadron, I could positively identify Sgt Henryk Wojtkiewicz, standing fourth from right. Portrait of unknown Polish airmen at bottom right.
    6 February 2006. On picture  ni_51, Sgt Zygmunt Gruszczynski positively identified. On the immediate right is thumbnails to a photo of Sgt Stanislaw Laskowski, ferry pilot. On the photo marked as  ni_48  are: Sgt Gruszczynski (left), a visiting Polish sailor, Sgt Nawrocki, Sgt Ostoja-Slonski, Sgt Kowalski (in front), Sgt Dukalski and Sgt Matus, all No. 315 Squadron. From the same unit on  ni_50  is Alfred Wlodarski. On  ni_35  317 Squadron pilots, Tessa Fajks recognized her father Wincenty Fajks, fourth from right.

    6 February 2005.  On picture  ni_61, Jane Ainsworth recognized her grandfather Wladyslaw Mielczarek who was  F/Sgt for 308 Squadron on   ni_61 . His two brothers also served in Polish squadrons of the RAF. Also, through Sally Ederington, Zugmunt Jelinski (306 Squadron himself) confirmed Stefan Tronczynski being right side pilot standing on the Spitfire wing on picture  ni_45 .
    10 July. Without doubt  ni_10   depicts member of the 316 (Polish) Squadron Zbigniew Sosnowski, who recognized himself.
    8 February. More question-solving info from Wojtek Matusiak:  ni_42  depicts F/O Adam Habela, while   ni_43   is a photo of F/O Leslaw Szczerbinski; both pilots of No. 308 Squadron and both were killed during service. On  ni_15  , wearing a stripes scarf is Longin Winski.
    12 January 2003. Laurent Taveau from France recognized Zygmunt Kawnik (crossed arms) and Jan Pomietlarz to his right at picture  306_kto2  taken at ALG Coolham in summer 1944. This was confirmed by Mr. Zygmunt Kawnik himself. Jonathan Hoseason recognized his grandfather, Zygmunt Krzeptowski,  ni_6  late member of No. 303 Squadron
    14 August 2002. After comparing it with other available pictures, the  ni_26  appears to be that of of P/O Walenty Krepski (BoB).
    17 July 2002. Bernard Lazewski confirmed the pilot on  ni_14  to be P/O Wojciech Popiel of No. 317 Squadron. Picture taken on 16 March 1943.
    8 May 2002. Wojtek Matusiak confirmed that  ni_40  depicts Jerzy Szymankiewicz.
    28 April 2002. Danusia Mazurkiewicz recognized her father, F/Lt Jerzy Mazurkiewicz, in photo  ni_3  (308 Squadron on the continent) who is standing 4th from left in the front row. In photo  ni_17  he is (again from the left) the 3rd of the officers standing up. He is wearing a pilots flat cap. Thanks Danusia.
    8 April 2002. Jozef Krzywonos, Polish signal officer positively recognized F/Lt Stanislaw Kon from No. 318 squadron in picture  318_who1 , and F/O Radwanski (left) and F/Lt Galicki from the same unit in picture  318_who3 .
    4 April 2002. Thanks to Wojtek Matusiak from Poland, most likely the following queries are definitely solved:
 ni_3  (Always from right) Standing on the a/c: Bronislaw Mach, Jan Kurowski, Leszek Szczerbinski, ?, ?.Sitting are: ?, Waclaw Korwel, ?, Tadeusz Schiele. In front: Stanislaw Bochniak, Jozef Sawoszczyk, Mierzejewski, ?, Waclaw Chojnacki, Soszynski, Witold Lipinski (behind Soszynski and Retinger), Witold Retinger, ?, ?, Jozef Jeka, ?. (Probably on the picture are also Mazurek, Sochacki and Mazurkiewicz. WR)  ni_9  Piotr Syperek.  ni_16  Edwin Malinowski.  ni_17  No. 308 squadron, Chailey, May 1944. Far left is Stanislaw Bochniak. In a center is Witold Lipinski (with a truck's spare wheel, next to him). Far right is Jozef Sawoszczyk, with Bronislaw Mach wearing gloves (?) in front of him. Gesticulating (in a wedge cap) is Tadeusz Schiele.  ni_18  General Izycki visits the 131 Polish Wing at Chailey, May 1944. In flying boots, with his back to camera is the 308's CO S/Ldr Retinger. Far right is W/Cdr Czaykowski.  ni_19  Wlodzimierz Link (right) and Leszek Szczerbinski - 308 Sq; end of 1943, early 1944.  ni_24  Franciszek Kornicki.  ni_25  Jerzy Zbrozek.  ni_31  Among the archives of the Museum in Krakow, Wojtek found this picture donated by Tadeusz Blicharz who identified people and place: Standing from left: W/C Stefan Janus, F/O Roman Pentz, F/O Jerzy Zbierzchowski, F/O Kazimierz Zakrzewski, F/O Tadeusz Blicharz, F/O Jerzy Stachurski, F/O Jerzy Prasniewski, F/O Tomasz Legowski, F/O Eugeniusz Nowakiewicz and F/O Stefan Madejczyk. Sitting, from left: F/O Stefan Skalski, F/O Stanislaw Krol, F/O Jan Gerstel and F/O Mieczyslaw Wyszkowski. Picture taken at Satal Luft Sagan in 1943.  ni_32 First from right: Teofil Szymankiewcz.Wincenty Fajks stoi rozesmiany piaty od prawej  ni_33 The OTU course. Eighth from left is Karol Pniak.  ni_35 The fifth fourth from right is Wincenty Fajks, with Palej (?) to his left. Eighth is Mieczyslaw Matus with Kolczynski (?) to his right. Leaning on a cockpit, second from right is Kazimierz Zielonka.