No.
309 Squadron Picture Gallery
"Lysander"
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Personnel of the Flight "B". Dunino. December 1940.
Airmen: 1. Witold Miniszewski 2. Maciej Piotrowski 3. Waclaw Szypulewski.
4. Eugeniusz Rajewski. 5. Jan Lemieszonek. 6. Aleksander Lukinski. 7.
Jerzy Golko. 8. Henryk Wojtkiewicz 9. Jozef Kotarba (ground crew chief)
10. Mieczyslaw Bedzinski 11. Tadeusz Ciula (Chris
Szypulewski)

Another picture of the same group. (Chris Szypulewski)

Needs
info.
Kneeling
on
extreme
left
is
Sgt
Henryk
Wojtkiewicz.
(courtesy
Anita
Foster)

Left: Renfrew, early 1941. S/Ldr Pistl (left), F/O Sawicki and unknown.
Right: Double Browning machine guns installed on a Lysander. (Chris
Szypulewski)

Sgt
Henryk
Wojtkiewicz
posing
by
Lysander's
870-hp
Bristol
Mercury,
nine-cylinder
radial
engine.
(courtesy
Anita
Foster)

Left: Renfrew, April 1941. President Raczkiewicz visit to the
unit. Right: Renfrew. Group of airmen. Notice that the Lysander in
a back lacks a Polish checker painted on a fuselage. Needs info. (Chris
Szypulewski)

Left: The squadron's Lysnader on a patrol over the east coast of
Scotland (Chris Szypulewski). Right: Lysander wing shape. (Chris
Szypulewski)

Left: Renfrew, Christams Eve 1940. Needs info.
Right:
Renfrew, March 1941. Some of the 309 personnel. Needs info.

The squadron's Lysanders. the one on the left has no code letters painted.

(Jan Koniarek. Polish Air Force 1939-1945. Squadron/Signal Publications)

Left: Dunino, May 1941. Raising of the PAF color at the airfield.
Right:
Dunino, summer 1941. The 309 signal officer's truck. As an army-cooperation
squadron, the 309 had to rely heavily on good radio contact. An Army officer was
usually present, coordinating the ground and air action. First on left is F/O
Krzywonos, the unit's signal officer at that time.

Dunino, June 1941. On of the 309 Lysanders.
Clearly visible are small bomb racks mounted on the aircraft's fixed
undercarriage.

Left: Dunino's bosky billets. Most of the 309 personnel lived in
those tents for over a year. Right: Some of Dunino's
infrastructure with the signal lorry.

Dunino, June 1941. Line-up for a chow.

Left: Summer 1941. The 309's sylvan place of worship.
Right:
Polish Lysander drops a practice bomb on Dunino's neighboring range.

Click in the thumbnail to see the squadron personnel in November 1941.

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