Tunisia, 1943. A RAF Advanced Servicing Unit dismantles Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX, EN459 ZX-1, of the Polish Fighting Team, attached to No 145 Squadron, RAF (note the Polish insignia on the nose under the windscreen). The aircraft was damaged on 6 April 1943 when, after shooting down a Messerschmitt Bf 109, it was attacked by another Bf 109 and hit in the engine. The pilot, Flight Lieutenant Eugeniusz Horbaczewski, was able to glide in to Gabes for a forced landing. The Polish Fighting Team, formed in Great Britain on beginning of 1943, was attached to No. 145 Squadron initially as 'C' Flight. Victor Sierra

Polish Fighting Team Spitfire

Well-known photo of the German soldiers examining Polish FT-17 tanks in the northern gate of the Citadel in Brzesc. According to most sources, the German tanks, attacking on 14 September 1939, did not manage to cross the Citadel main gate, blocked by the FT-17 tanks of 112. company.
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Polish FT-17's

An Handley Page Halifax Mk. II of No.301 (Polish) Squadron at Lecce, Southern Italy, July 1944 (note a RAF’s Beaufighter in background). The No. 301 Polish Bomber Squadron "Land of Pomerania" (301 Dywizjon Bombowy "Ziemi Pomorskiej") born on 1940 in Great Britain and afterword disbanded, on 7 November 1943, was reformed at Brindisi, Italy, when No. 1586 Flight was renamed. The squadron operated the Handley Page Halifax and Consolidated Liberator until 1945 also for special operations and supplies air dropping. After the return in Great Britain the Squadron was disbanded at Chedburgh on 18 December 1946. Victor Sierra