No. 308 Squadron Picture Gallery.

 

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Pilots of the 308 second half of 1942. Courtesy of Andy Stabrowski.


Plumentot (B-10), France. Spitfire Mk IX, ZF-R, MK984, S/Ldr Retinger's personal aircraft.
 


(B-10). From left: F/Lt Wandzilak, F/O Schiele, F/Lt Duryasz, F/O Bochniak, Stanislaw Czarnecki.
Notice the coils of wire netting which were used to cover runways.


Somewhere in France. From left: Link (with scarf around his neck), Chojnacki, Malinowski, Wojcik (sitting) and Tadeusz Wisniewski directly behind him. In a baseball hat is fitter Ryszard Kwiatkowski. In tropical suit is Wandzialk, next to his right is Sawoszczyk, unfolding a map is Kotlarz.


F/Lt Antoni Lipkowski (left) and F/Lt Stanislaw Wandzilak.

 
S/Ldr Witold Retinger. ZF-R, MK984. Notice a number of bomb mission immediately after the checker.


Probably Chailey, May 1944. Playing accordion is F/Lt Bochniak.


Usually, the living conditions at those B-landing grounds where somewhat less than ample.


Needs info.
Ghnet (St Denijs Westrem). No. 308 Squadron during late stages of the war. In the background Polish HQ.
(from left): Wojcik , J. Malinowski, ?, Stanski, ?, W. Karasinski, Soszynski, ?, ?, ?, Majchrzyk, Bochniak, Pniak, Retinger, Lipkowski, I. Olszewski, J. Glowczewski, Marecki, Breyner, Szlenkier, Mierzejewski, Krakowian, Dolicher, Link.
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Chailey, May 1944.
The squadron's ground crew with Spitfire MH750, ZF-A, flown by Flight "A" commander F/Lt Bochniak.


Mk XVIs: ZF-U and ZF-E, TD242. Needs info.

 
F/Lt Bochniak taxiing in his ZF-P, TD317. Probably 1946. Right: F/Lt Krakowian.


Spitfire, MkXVI, TD317 of S/Ldr Pniak, CO No. 308, April 1945.
Courtesy of Robert Grudzien.


 Probably May 1945, Fairwood Common. The late 308 with the base British officers.
First row, from left: Pietrasiak, ?, Bochniak, ?, Pniak, ?, F/Lt Kobierzycki.
Second row: Kozak, Trybuszewski, ?, Mikolajczak, Mermel, Szlenkier, Krakowian.
Third row: ?, Trybulec, ?, Jasinski, ?, Haeberle, ?.

 
F/Sgt Wladyslaw Mielczarek.
Noticelate 1942 flying boots and typical flight sheep skin.
(photo courtesy of Christine Alexander)


P/O Leslaw Szczerbinski.
He was KIA in 1945 while with No. 317 Sqn.


F/O Adam Habela
Killed in flying accident on 14 May 1943.


F/O Ludwik Mikolajczak


The squadron's Spitfire XVIs In Germany, summer 1945. In the foreground is ZF-O TB995, then ZF-R TB632, ZF-T TB637, and ZF-M TB890.


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