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.

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) Right: F/Lt Piotrowski.

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/Lt Mencel in front of WC-T.

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". 

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

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.

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 Halka, 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.

The squadron's Mustang lined up at Drem (Scotland) in December 1944. The chessboards have not yet been painted on, and so the squadron badge, which 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.

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: Halka 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.

The unit's armourer at work.

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

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