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Bibliography of Kosciuszko Squadron

Section 1. Further Recommended Reading

The Original 7th (Kosciuszko) Squadron 1919-1920 

Biskupski, Mieczyslaw B. “Kosciuszko, We are Here?”  American Volunteers for Poland and the Polish-Russian War, 1918-1920.  pp. 182-204, in Blejwas and Biskupski, eds.  Pastor of the Poles: Polish American Essays Presented to Monsignor right Reverend John P. Wodarski in Honor of the Fiftieth  Anniversary of his Ordination. New Britain, Polish Studies Program Monographs, 1982. 

Cisek, Janusz,   Kosciuszko, We are Here !  American pilots of the Kosciuszko Squadron in Defense of Poland, 1919-1921,  McFarland Publishers,  2002.

Karolevitz, Robert F. and Fenn Ross S., Flight of Eagles, Brevet Press, 1974.        

Kopanski,  Tomasz J. and Kozak, Zygmunt,  Kosciuszko Squadron, 1919-1921,  Stratus, Poland,  2005.

Murray, Kenneth Malcolm, Wings Over Poland. The Story of the 7th Kosciuszko Squadron of the Polish Air Service,  NY.  1932.  [Murray was one of the American Volunteers.]

Section 2. The following two books address the 303 (Kosciuszko) Squadron during the Second World War, 1940-46.

Fiedler, Arkady, Squadron 303,  original  publication: Letchworth,  United Kingdom,  Letchworth Printers,  1942. This book saw two editions in London and two in New York.

Olson,  Lynne and Cloud, Stanley,   A Question of Honor. The Kosciuszko Squadron. Forgotten Heroes of World War II. (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2003). 

The 303 (Kosciuszko) Squadron is also very much in the forefront of the histories of the Polish Air Force during the Second World War.

1939-1945

Belcarz,  Bartlomiej  and  Peczkowski, Robert,  White Eagles: The Aircraft, Men and Operations of the Polish Air Force,  1918-1939,  (Virginia, Charlottesville,  Howell Press, 2001).       

Cynk,  Jerzy B.   The Polish Air Force at War, The Official History, 1939-1945,  (Pennsylvania, Atglen, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd, 1998). 

Destiny Can Wait, The Polish Air Force in the Second World War, London, 1949.

Gretzyngier,  Robert,    Poles in Defence of Britain.  A Day-by-Day Chronology of Polish Day and Night Fighter Pilot Operations:  June 1940-July 1941, (London, Grub Street, 2001). 

Gretzyngier, Robert and   and  Matusiak, Wojtek,   Polish Aces of World War 2, (London, Osprey,  1998).  

Koniarek,  Jan,  Polish Air Force, 1939-1945,  (Texas, Carrolton,  Squadron/Signal Publications, 1994).

Peszke, Michael Alfred,  The Forgotten Campaign. Poland's Military Aviation in September,  1939,  in    Black,  Jeremy , editor,  The Second World War.  Volume  1.   The German War, 1939-1942,  Ashgate Publishing, Burlington, Vermont USA and Aldershot,  England,   2007.  pp. 1-72.  

Zamoyski,  Adam,   The Forgotten FewPen and Sword Aviation, Barnsley,  England, 2004.) 

All the above books are in the Elihu Burritt Library of Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, and are also in the holdings of the New England Air Museum, Windsor, Connecticut. 

Section 3.  Other links

Web addresses for "No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron" and for "Poland in Exile":

http://www.geocities.com/psp1945/303/303Squadron.html

http://www.polandinexile.com/

 

 


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