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The Legendary Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron
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Artikel-Nr:
9781607720263
Veröffentl:
2010
Seiten:
376
Autor:
Arkady Fiedler
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
The summer of 1940 and the Battle of Britain—the darkestdays of World War II. France, Poland, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands,Luxembourg and Norway had all been crushed by the powerful Nazi German warmachine. Great Britain stood alone, fighting for its life.
303 Squadron is the thrilling storyof the celebrated squadron of Polish fighter pilots whose superb skill in theair helped save England during its most desperate hours. They were thehighest-scoring Allied fighter squadron in the Battle of Britain, downing threetimes the average RAF score while incurring only one-third the averagecasualties. Dashing and gallant 303 Squadron was lionized by the British press,congratulated by the King, and adored by the British public.
With an immediacy that vividly brings to life those harrowing days, Fiedlerpaints the bravery, the poignancy, the breathtaking gambles with death riskeddaily by this exceptional group of young men far from home, who fought topreserve freedom for all.
“Had it not been for the magnificent material contributed by the Polishsquadrons and their unsurpassed gallantry, I hesitate to say that the outcomeof the battle would have been the same.”
— British Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
Translated from the Polish; identifies the pilots by their real names for thefirst time in English. Nearly 200 black & white photos, maps andillustrations; contextualizing historical material; nine appendices.
Selection of the History Book Club and theMilitary Book Club.
Winner:
GOLD Award for History, 2011 Benjamin Franklin Awards
SILVER Award for Interior Design, 2011 Benjamin Franklin Awards
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Summer of 1940 and the Battle of Britain — the darkest days of WWII. England stood alone, fighting for its life against the powerful German war machine. The celebrated squadron of Polish fighter pilots whose superb skill in the air helped save England during its most desperate hours — lionized by the British press, congratulated by the King, adored by the British public—is painted with an immediacy that vividly brings to life those harrowing days.
The summer of 1940 and the Battle of Britain—the darkestdays of World War II. France, Poland, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands,Luxembourg and Norway had all been crushed by the powerful Nazi German warmachine. Great Britain stood alone, fighting for its life.
303 Squadron is the thrilling storyof the celebrated squadron of Polish fighter pilots whose superb skill in theair helped save England during its most desperate hours. They were thehighest-scoring Allied fighter squadron in the Battle of Britain, downing threetimes the average RAF score while incurring only one-third the averagecasualties. Dashing and gallant 303 Squadron was lionized by the British press,congratulated by the King, and adored by the British public.
With an immediacy that vividly brings to life those harrowing days, Fiedlerpaints the bravery, the poignancy, the breathtaking gambles with death riskeddaily by this exceptional group of young men far from home, who fought topreserve freedom for all.
“Had it not been for the magnificent material contributed by the Polishsquadrons and their unsurpassed gallantry, I hesitate to say that the outcomeof the battle would have been the same.”
— British Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
Translated from the Polish; identifies the pilots by their real names for thefirst time in English. Nearly 200 black & white photos, maps andillustrations; contextualizing historical material; nine appendices.
Selection of the History Book Club and theMilitary Book Club.
Winner:
GOLD Award for History, 2011 Benjamin Franklin Awards
SILVER Award for Interior Design, 2011 Benjamin Franklin Awards
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . xxi
A Note About... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Translator's Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
Author's Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiii
Chapter 1 - The Battle of Britain 1940 . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2 - The Fighter Pilot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 3 - 31st August: The First Battle . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 4 - 2nd September: Comradeship . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 5 - When the Ammunition Ran Out... . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 41
Chapter 6 - 5th–6th September: You Win Some, You Lose Some .. 49
Chapter 7 - 7th September: A Tasty Morsel—Dorniers . . . . .. . . . 64
Chapter 8 - Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Chapter 9 - A Smile Through the Blood . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 84
Chapter 10 - The Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Chapter 11 - 11th September: The Greatest Victory . . . . .. . . . . . . . 100
Chapter 12 - The Enemy's Dance of Death . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 113
Chapter 13 - A Brave Czech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Chapter 14 - The Colourless Roots of Brilliant Flowers . . .. . . . . . 128
Chapter 15 - A Fearless, Flawless Airman . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 141
Chapter 16 - The Myth of the Messerschmitt 110 . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 152
Chapter 17 - Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Chapter 18 - 15th September: Fate in the Balance . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 172
Chapter 19 - 15th September: Fate Decided . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 183
Chapter 20 - ‘We Are Beginning to Understand the Poles' . .. . . . . 191
HISTORICAL HORIZON
The Road to Britain for the Polish Air Force:
A Brief Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 203
APPENDICES
Appendix 1 - Glossary of English, Polish, German and French
Terms and Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 221
Appendix 2 - Polish Air Force Ranks and their Royal AirForce
Equivalents During World War II . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 227
Appendix 3 - 303 Squadron Personnel in the Battle of Britain. . . . 231
Appendix 4 - PilotBiographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
TadeuszAndruszków . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Michał Brzezowski. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Arsen Cebrzyński. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Jan Daszewski . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Mirosław Ferić .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Athol Forbes . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Josef František .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
ZdzisławHenneberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Stanisław Karubin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Ronald Kellett .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
John Kent . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Zdzisław Krasnodębski. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
WitoldŁokuciewski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
LudwikPaszkiewicz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Marian Pisarek .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
EugeniuszSzaposznikow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Witold Urbanowicz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Stefan Wójtowicz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Kazimierz Wünsche. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Jan Zumbach . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Appendix 5 - 303 Squadron Claimed Victories During the
Battle of Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 289
Appendix 6 - Brothers In Arms: The 303 Squadron Badge
and the Original Kościuszko Squadron . . . . . . . . . . . .297
Appendix 7 - The Song of 303 Squadron . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 313
Appendix 8 - Against All Odds: The Creation of the Polish
Air Force Colour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 319
Appendix 9 - Operational Units of the Polish Air Force
in Great Britain during World War II . . . . . . . . . . . .. 327
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . xxi
A Note About... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Translator's Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
Author's Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiii
Chapter 1 - The Battle of Britain 1940 . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2 - The Fighter Pilot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 3 - 31st August: The First Battle . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 4 - 2nd September: Comradeship . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 5 - When the Ammunition Ran Out... . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 41
Chapter 6 - 5th–6th September: You Win Some, You Lose Some .. 49
Chapter 7 - 7th September: A Tasty Morsel—Dorniers . . . . .. . . . 64
Chapter 8 - Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Chapter 9 - A Smile Through the Blood . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 84
Chapter 10 - The Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Chapter 11 - 11th September: The Greatest Victory . . . . .. . . . . . . . 100
Chapter 12 - The Enemy's Dance of Death . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 113
Chapter 13 - A Brave Czech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Chapter 14 - The Colourless Roots of Brilliant Flowers . . .. . . . . . 128
Chapter 15 - A Fearless, Flawless Airman . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 141
Chapter 16 - The Myth of the Messerschmitt 110 . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 152
Chapter 17 - Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Chapter 18 - 15th September: Fate in the Balance . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 172
Chapter 19 - 15th September: Fate Decided . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 183
Chapter 20 - ‘We Are Beginning to Understand the Poles' . .. . . . . 191
HISTORICAL HORIZON
The Road to Britain for the Polish Air Force:
A Brief Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 203
APPENDICES
Appendix 1 - Glossary of English, Polish, German and French
Terms and Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 221
Appendix 2 - Polish Air Force Ranks and their Royal AirForce
Equivalents During World War II . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 227
Appendix 3 - 303 Squadron Personnel in the Battle of Britain. . . . 231
Appendix 4 - PilotBiographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
TadeuszAndruszków . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Michał Brzezowski. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Arsen Cebrzyński. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Jan Daszewski . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Mirosław Ferić .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Athol Forbes . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Josef František .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
ZdzisławHenneberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Stanisław Karubin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Ronald Kellett .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
John Kent . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Zdzisław Krasnodębski. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
WitoldŁokuciewski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
LudwikPaszkiewicz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Marian Pisarek .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
EugeniuszSzaposznikow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Witold Urbanowicz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Stefan Wójtowicz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Kazimierz Wünsche. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Jan Zumbach . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Appendix 5 - 303 Squadron Claimed Victories During the
Battle of Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 289
Appendix 6 - Brothers In Arms: The 303 Squadron Badge
and the Original Kościuszko Squadron . . . . . . . . . . . .297
Appendix 7 - The Song of 303 Squadron . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 313
Appendix 8 - Against All Odds: The Creation of the Polish
Air Force Colour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 319
Appendix 9 - Operational Units of the Polish Air Force
in Great Britain during World War II . . . . . . . . . . . .. 327
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