List of World War II aces from Poland
This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from Poland.[1]
A Name Kills Awards Notes Adamek, Mieczyslaw 8 KIA 18 May 1944 Akenamdy, Prince Stefan Arct, Bogdan Stanislaw 5
B Name Kills Awards Notes Bargielowski, Jakub 6 + 2 V-1s Bartlomiejczyk, Czeslaw 1 + 6 V-1s Belc, Marian 7 DFC KIFA 27 August 1942 Beyer, Andrzej 8 Blok, Stanislaw 6 Brzeski, Stanislaw 13 1/2 DSO, DFC**
C Name Kills Awards Notes Chalupa, Stanislaw Jozef 7 Cholajda, Antoni "Ghandi" 8 Chudek, Aleksandr 9 KIA 23 June 1944 Cwynar, Michal 13 Czerwubski, Tadeusz 7
D Name Kills Awards Notes Drobinski, Boleslaw H "Ski" 7 Dudwal, Hieronim 6 KIA in France 7 June 1940
F Name Kills Awards Notes Falkowski, Jan Pavel 9 DFC Ferić, Mirosław "Ox" 10 VM, KW**, DFC KIFA 14 February 1942 Feruga, Jozef 5
G German MG 15 aerial machine gun, pilot's cap and some debris of a German Heinkel He 111 downed by Aleksander Gabszewicz on September 1, 1939 Name Kills Awards Notes Gabreski, Francis Stanley "Gabby" 28 DSC, DSM, LM, DFC, AM (Polish-American) Gabszewicz,[2] Aleksander Klemens 11 DFC, DSO*, CdG, VM* Gładych, Bolesław Michal "Mike" 18 VM***, DFC, AM***, CdG incorrectly listed as 14 kills in Lista Bajana Głowacki, Antoni 10+1/3 DFC, DFM, VM, KW*** Głowacki, New Zealander Brian Carbury and Ronald Hamlyn and Archie McKellar, both British pilots,[3] were the only four "aces in a day ",[4] [a] in the Battle of Britain. Glowczynski, Czeslaw 6 Gnyś, Władysław CdG, DFC, KW*, VM
H Name Kills Awards Notes Henneberg, Zdzislaw Karol 9 MIA 12 April 1941 Horbaczewski, Eugeniusz 'Dziubek' 16.5+4V-1 VM*, KW***, DSO, DFC* KIA 18 August 1944
Herbst, Witold Aleksander
I Name Kills Awards Notes Idrain, Ryszard 6
J Name Kills Awards Notes Jankowski, Tadeusz 13 KIA 20 September 1944 Janus, Stefan 6 Jastrzebski, Franciszek 6 KIA 25 October 1940 Jeka, Jozef 8 KIA 13 April 1958
K Name Kills Awards Notes Kalinowski, Victor 12 Karnkowski, Stefan 7 Karubin, Stanislaw 7 KIFA 12 August 1941 Klawe, Wlodzimierz 7 Kosinski, Kazimierz Bronislaw 5 KIA 26 January 1942 Kotz, Tadeusz 6 VM, DFC Kowalski Roch, Julian 5 KM & 3 bars, VM, DCF See his story here :- http://bbm.org.uk/airmen/KowalskiJ302.htm Kremski, Jan Bernard 9 Krol, Waclaw Szczepan 9 Kustrzynski, Zbigniew "Zbyshek" 18 VM***, DFC Shot down over France, POW 6.4.42. Escaped Stalag Luft 3 SAGAN with Robert Stanford Tuck in December 1944. Reached England February 1945.
L Name Kills Awards Notes Lanowski, Witold Aleksander 6 KW & bar, DFC, AM & 10 bars plus 1.6 AIR unclaimed (in USAAF records) & 4.6 GROUND unclaimed (in USAAF records). Unknown number of Bf 109’s destroyed on the ground recorded in 317 squadron records. incorrectly listed as 2 kills in Lista Bajana
Lapkowski, Waclaw 7 KIA 2 July 1941 Lokuciewski, Witold "Tolo" 8 VM, KW***, PR, DFC, CdG
M Name Kills Awards Notes Maciejowski, Michal Miroslaw 11 POW 1943 Majewski, Longin 7 Mielnecki, Jerzy Andrzej 7 all V-1s Mumler, Mieczyslaw 9 Murkowski, Antoni 7 DFC including 4 x V-1s
N Name Kills Awards Notes Nowak, Tadeusz 5 KIA 21 September 1941 Nowakiewicz, Eugenieusz Jan Adam 6 Tadeusz Nowierski 5 Nowoczyn, Witold 6
P Name Kills Awards Notes Paszkiewicz, Ludwik Witold "Paszko" 6 KIA 27/09/1940 Pietrasiak, Adolf 11 VM, Cross of Valour, DFM 29/11/1943 Pietrzak, Aleksander 9 02/08/1945 Pietrzak, Henryk J 14 DFC, KW***, VM Piotrowski, Maciej 6 Pisarek, Marian 13 VM (Gold), KW***, DFC 29/04/1942 Pniak, Karol 8 Pomietlarz, Jan 5 VM, KW** 12/16/2012 Popek, Mieczyslaw 5 15/01/1944 Poplawski, Jerzy 5 VM (Silver), KW**, DFC 21/6/2004 Potocki, Wladyslaw Jan 6 23/2/1996
R Name Kills Awards Notes Radomski, Jerzy 5 Rogowski, Jan Aleksander 7 Rudowski, Stanislaw 12 Rutkowski, Kazimierz 6 DFC, VM, KW
S Name Kills Awards Notes Schmidt, Jerzy 6 KIA 6 December 1944 Siekierski, Jan 11 Siwek, Kazimierz 11 Stanisław Skalski 21 DSO, DFC**, VM*, KW*** Smigielski, Jan 5 Sologub, Grzegorz "George" 5 DFC,VM,KW** 306 Squadron Sporny, Kazimierz 5 DFC, VM, KW** 15/5/1949 Surma, Franciszek 5 KIA 8 November 1941 Szaposznikow, Eugeniusz Miroslaw 9 Szczesny, Henryk "Sneezy" 11 Sztramko, Kazimierz 7 Szymankiewicz, Teofil 7 Szymanski, Tadeusz 10
T Name Kills Awards Notes Tronczynski, Stefan 6
U W Name Kills Awards Notes Wczelik, Antoni 5 KIA 14 April 1942 Wesolowski, Marian 6 Witorzenc, Stefan 6 Wiza, Franciszek 6 DFC 12/12/1956 Wlasnowolski, Boleslaw Andrzej 6 KIA 1 November 1940 Wojciechowski, Miroslav Ignacy 5 Wunsche, Kazimierz 6 DFC, VM (Silver), KW**
Z Key to Awards Abbreviations See also Notes ^ The term "ace in a day" is used to designate a pilot who has shot down five or more airplanes in a single day, based on usual definition of a "flying ace " References ^ Gretzyngier, Robert; Matusiak, Wojtek. (1998). Polish aces of World War 2 . London: Osprey. ISBN 1-85532-726-0 . OCLC 39957700. ^ Uren, Amanda. "1940-1943 Polish RAF airmen". Mashable . ^ Aces High,Shores and Williams ^ Geissinger, Steve (October 15, 1997). "Manmade Thunder". The Argus-Press . Retrieved July 17, 2011 .