The Greatest SQD book says P7365 was shot down on the 27 OCT 1940 with P/O Dewey as the pilot, but this is the only reference i have on the subject.

In my files P/O Dewey was killed in a crash landing of P7286, but I guess the Greatest book says P/O Maxwell crash-landed that Spitfire?

Do any of you know the correct letter P7350 had (XT- ? ) when she flew with 603 Sqn during 1940. We believe the pilot was P/O Ludwig Martel.

According to his personal Flying Log Book, Ludwik Martel has not flown P7350, unfortunately. P7359 XT-Q was his usual mount between November 1940 and January 1941, and he also flew P7550 XT-W and P7750 XT-L.

Just a hypothesis: JK271 (Mk VC Trop) was used in 93 Sqn, apparently. If the markings for the model were based on an unclear photo, by someone with no knowledge of Spitfire serials, this could be the answer.

Just to the left of the Guards badge in this photo you can see the wingtip light fairing that was only present on full span wings.

Wouldn’t it be right to give this thread a “Sticky” status?

I am not too good at WWI topics, but I can think of at least two Polish pilots with combat record from both World Wars:

Stefan Pawlikowski – I believe he flew with a fighter escadrille in France in 1918, and may have scored a victory; he then certainly distinguished himself during the Polish-Russian War of 1920, shooting down some Red Russian aircraft; in WWII he became the Senior Polish Liaison Officer to HQ Fighter Command (i. e. head of the Polish fighter force in Britain) and in this capacity he joined his squadrons on operational missions, he was eventually shot down and killed by Focke-Wulfs on 15 May 1943 in Spitfire IX LZ990 PK-M, borrowed from 315 Sqn.

Ludomil Rayski was a bomber pilot (IIRC) in the Turkish Air Force in WWI; in WWII, in the capacity of Senior Polish Liaison Officer to the RAF HQ in the Meditterranean he flew some combat sorties in 318 Sqn’s Spitfires (tactical recce on the Italian front) and as a co-pilot in Liberators of 1586 (Special Duties) Flight (supply drops to Warsaw during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944).

Ray as I last saw him, last summer at Chailey.

R.I.P.

P/O Marian Lukaszewicz was with 616 Sqn from 8.11.40 to 21.1.41 & they were based at Kirton-in-Lindsey from 9.9.40 to 26.2.41.

This is the man in the photo.
Porucznik (F/O) Marian Lukaszewicz, service no. P-0160. Born 21 June 1916. Graduated from the Polish AF College at Deblin, commissioned on 31 August 1939. Fought over Poland in September 1939 with 151 Eskadra Mysliwska (151st Fighter Flight). Got to France. Flew operationally in the Polish GC I/145. Arrived in Britain in June 1940. Posted to no. 302 (Polish) Sqn in August, but soon sent away for conversion training on British aircraft. In September 1940 posted to no. 307 (Polish) Sqn on Defiants. Dissatisfied with the role of a ‘gunbus-driver’, he applied for re-posting to a day fighting unit. Posted for further conversion training to no. 5 OTU, then to no. 303 (Polish) Sqn. In November 1940 reposted to no. 616 Sqn. In January 1941 reposted again, to no. 315 (Polish) Sqn then being formed. On 21 October he was credited with a confirmed victory. He was one of five no. 315’s pilots killed in the tragic Rhubarb mission on 23 November 1941. His decorations included Krzyz Walecznych (Cross of Valour) and two bars.
His body was lost in sea off Dunkirk, and he has no known grave (although he might be one of the unknown airmen whose bodies were washed ashore and who were buried in France, Belgium or Holland). He is remembered on the Polish AF memorial in Northolt, and on a similar memorial in Warsaw.