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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
Fighter aces in World War II had tremendously varying kill scores, affected as they were by many factors: the pilot's skill level, the performance of the airplane the pilot flew and the planes they flew against, how long they served, their opportunity to meet the enemy in the air (Allied to Axis disproportion), whether they were the formation's leader or a wingman, the standards their air ...
ORP Grom, a World War II Polish Navy destroyer. The outbreak of World War II caught the Polish Navy in a state of expansion. Lacking numerical superiority, Polish Naval commanders decided to withdraw main surface ships to Great Britain to join the Allied war effort and prevent them from being destroyed in a closed Baltic (the Peking Plan).
Ace of aces is a title accorded to the top active ace within a branch of service in a nation's military in time of war. The term ace was used for highly successfull military professional that have accumulated multiple kills on enemy aircraft shot down, tanks destroyed, ships sunk, by number or tonnage. [ 1 ]
ORP Wicher, the lead ship of the Wicher class, was a Polish Navy destroyer. She saw combat in the Invasion of Poland , which began World War II in Europe. She was the flagship of the Polish Navy, sunk by German bombers on 3 September 1939.
Polish Armament in 1939–45 article is a list of equipment used by Polish army before and during the Invasion of Poland, foreign service in British Commonwealth forces and last campaign to Germany with the Red Army in 1945. [1] The list includes prototype vehicles.
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
Rescue ships (4) Piast-class: 2 Poland: Multi-task rescue-salvage ship ORP Piast 281 1974 1,600 tonnes [15] Homeport: Gdynia. ORP Lech 282 1974 Zbyszko-class: 2 Poland: Salvage and rescue ship ORP Zbyszko R-14 1991 380 tonnes [15] Homeport: Gdynia. ORP Maćko R-15 1992 Survey (2) Nawigator-class. Project 863. 2 Poland: Survey ORP Navigator