Hamswell, probably fall 1942. GR-K before mission.
Top: some ordnance and bombs ready to be loaded. Middle: the a/c ground crew with its chief (left), and those who will
 fly it (right). In a middle with a Mae West is pilot F/O Wlosinski. Below: engines running, the crew boards the plane.

An impressive tally of 66 bomb missions on GR-P like Peter.
This was the record of the aircraft longevity in whole RAF.

 Hamswell, June 1942. The crew of F/O Bernasinski. Jan Nowak front gunner, Czapski second pilot, Czlapka wireless op,
 Karol Bernasinski pilot, Eryk Newman rear gunner. Missing is the navigator Marian Kostuch who took the picture. Most
 of this crew flew 16 missions together between April and June 1942, six on Wellington MkIV no. 1329. (W. Bernasinski)
See F/O Bernasinski's missions log.

The number of 40 for this "C" like Czarownica (Witch) was a remarkable record as well.

Hamswell. 10 April 1943. 
Above: General Sosnkowski visiting newly reorganized unit. Below: the units inspection and parade was a part of
 solemnities.

Navigators of the Polish Flight "C" at 13 Initial Training Wing (probably Torquay) in April 1943.
Front row, from left: Boleslaw Korna, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Witold Horbik, unidentified, Franciszek Wesolowski (liaison),
 Leon Piekarski (later KAS in 305 Sqdn) and Tomasz Wilczewski. Second row: Antoni Zagorski, Franciszek Omylak (later
 KIA in 1586 Flight), Franciszek Rybicki, Mieczyslaw Sawicki, Mieczyslaw Pruszynski, Zbigniew Groszek and Stanislaw
 Wujastyk. Back row: Jerzy Salmonowicz, Zenon Szwarnowiecki (later KAS in 305 Sqdn), Jan Abczynski and Eugeniusz
 Prusiecki.

One of the Polish Flight "C" Halifaxes after its mission on special operations. Hole in fuselage made by a shrapnel and
 damaged port elevator.

Tempsford. Fall 1943. General Sosnkowski, Polish C-in-C, visited the unit soon before its departure to Mediterranean.
 Below, left:  in conversation with CO, S/Ldr Krol. On left is F/Lt Glowczynski, General's adjutant and distinguished fighter
 pilot. Below, right, S/Ldr Krol facing a camera.

Left: Port of Brindisi seen from the unit's Liberator. Next to it the 1586 had its base. Because of the location, at least three
 heavies ended up in its waters. Right: Three DFC bearers who survived theirs tours of supply mission over occupied
 Europe, F/Lt Mioduchowski, F/Lt Helwig and F/Lt Korpowski.

 
At the age of 52, General Rayski became Chief of PAF at Mediterranean, and flew ops with 318 Squadron on Spitfires
 and insisted on flying a Liberator over Warsaw. He did just that during regular Warsaw Uprising bringing supplies to the
 fighting city. Above: He inspects a wreck of the unit's Liberator salvaged from the Brindisi's port basin. Left: F/Lt Szostak
 (left), Gen. Rayski and unknown. 

Left: F/O Henryk Kwiatkowski in Brindisi 1944. He completed two tours as a pilot of No. 305 and 301 Squadrons.
Right: F/Sgt Chodyra and unknown in Liberator GR-U BZ860 aircraft of the CO W/Cdr Krol.

Some of the unit's ground personnel. During the dramatic events in Warsaw in 1944, their efforts were nothing short of
 heroics. Many worked for 20 hours a day struggling to keep as many a/c operational as possible.

Left: F/Lt Helwig's (second from left) crew. Needs info. Right: F/Lt Mioduchowski and F/Lt Korpowski.

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