Left: New and old equipment in 1942 During conversion to Mustang the unit flew both type of aircraft. Right: F/Lt Lewkowicz in front of Mustang Mk I, AG648, on which he made his notorious flight.

Left: The 309 pilots. Needs info. (Chris Szypulewski) Center: F/Lt Piotrowski. Right: F/Lt Tadeusz Zeligowski, the unit's Intelligence Officer.

RAF Peterhead, November 1944. Group of the 309 pilots. Picture taken during the visit of the PAF Film Unit.

Same occasion. The sanitary conditions at the station were not great, but adequate. It is safe to assume that the Officer’s Ablution sign on the wooden planks door certainly do not refers to some religious ceremony.

F/O Karol Jeasche

F/Lt Jerzy Mencel

F/O Z. Lewandowski

F/Lt Franciszek Kubica KAS

Left: F/O Sliwinski. After the war he return to Poland, was wrongly charged with a state treason and executed in 1946.  Right: F/Lt Gorzula with his "Jean". 

F/O Kaminski (left) and F/Sgt Murkowski.

Becoming a purely fighter squadron the unit's pilot roster was almost entirely changed.  The unit's CO with flight commanders: F/Lt Klawe (left), S/Ldr Glowacki and F/Lt Birtus.

Above and below: The squadron's Mustang lined up at Drem (Scotland) in December 1944. The squadron badgehave not yet been painted on. It did not appear until late in the war. These Mustangs are interesting because they were fitted with louvers over the intakes on the nose which are usually seen only on RAF Mustang Mk IVs.

Drem, December 1945. Characteristically for the 309, the checkerboards were painted close behind the spinner's band.

16 July 1945. Andrews Field.
Old and new CO sitting in front of the group of 309 pilots: S/Ldr Glowacki (right) and S/Ldr Pietrzak.
Standing are: (from left) Sgt Hanka, F/Lt Klawe, F/Lt Haczkiewicz, Sgt Kogut, P/O Czerni, Sgt Loska, Sgt Eisenbach, F/Sgt Godlewski, Sgt Zaufal, F/O Stankiewicz, W/O Murkowski, P/O Turek, ?, ?, ?. First from in the back is F/O Wisniewski, between Stankiewicz and Murkowski is F/Lt Birtus.

Above and below: A fine studies of Mustang III, WC-X, FZ124. Spring 1945.

No. 309 squadron. Probably September 1945.
Front row, from left: F/Sgt Swiecicki, Sgt Sulikowski, W/O Murkowski, Sgt Kogut and Sgt Podolski. Second row: F/O Stankiewicz, F/O Budzik, F/Lt Lewis (British), F/Lt Polak, S/Ldr Pietrzak, F/Lt Birtus, F/O Cutting (British), F/O Gierycz, F/O Mozolowski and P/O Turek. Back row: P/O Lewandowski, Radkiewicz, F/O Krus, P/O Czerni, F/Lt Zielonka, F/O Jaeschke, Zaufal, F/Sgt Godlewski, F/Sgt Gallus, Zagloba, Sgt Eisenbach, Sgt Loska, W/O B. Czerwinski and F/O Wisniewski. Far back: Hanka and Kulecki.

Left: Andrews Field, late summer 1945. Second from right is F/Lt Birtus. Right: Most likely this picture depicts a wreck of Mustang III, FB210,WC-P in which F/O L. Krus was killed on 12 February 1946.

RAF Andrews Field, sometime in 1945. A pair of silver (no camouflage paint) Mustangs taxiing for take off.

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