Pilots from No. 303 (“Kościuszko”) Polish Fighter Squadron with one of their Mk II Spitfires, resting from the strain of heavy fighting during the ‘Battle of Britain’ in the late summer of 1940.

(From left): Sgt Kustrzynski, Sgt Popek (KIA 1944), Sgt Szlagowski, F/O Feric (KIA 1942), P/O Daszewski (KIA 1942) and F/O Zumbach.

Poles

The Vinnitsa area of the Ukraine in November 1943. 

At the wheel is SS-Hauptsturmführer Gustav Knittel, the commander of the 1st SS Aufklärungs-Abteilung LSSAH. 