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100 1 $aOlson, Lynne.
245 10 $aFor your freedom and ours :$bthe Kościuszko Squadron : forgotten heroes of World War II /$cLynne Olson and Stanley Cloud.
260 $aLondon :$bArrow Books,$c2004, ©2003.
300 $axii, 495 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c20 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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500 $aOriginally published: London: Heinemann, 2003.
500 $aPublished in the United States under the title: A question of honor.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 467-475) and index.
520 $aMembers of the Polish air force fought through the defeat of their own country in 1939 and then alongside the French until the fall of France the following year, when they made their varied ways to Britain. There the Poles were among the Air Force's most successful aces. During the Battle of Britain, the pilots of the all-Polish Kosciuszko Squadron - 303 Squadron to the RAF - downed more German planes than any other squadron. According to Britain's wartime air force minister, without the Poles 'our shortage of trained pilots would have made it impossible to defeat the German air force and so win the Battle'. This gripping book tells the story of the Polish pilots, focussing on a small group of five of them, from defeat in Poland and France to victory in the Battle of Britain, from their idolisation by the public to the harrowing story of their betrayal, and Poland's, by Britain and the USA as the war came to its closing stages.
610 10 $aGreat Britain.$bRoyal Air Force.$bSquadron (Polish), 303rd$xHistory.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xRegimental histories$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAerial operations, Polish.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAerial operations, British.
650 0 $aAir pilots, Military$zPoland$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xForced repatriation.
650 6 $aGuerre mondiale, 1939-1945$xHistoire des unités$zGrande-Bretagne.
650 6 $aGuerre mondiale, 1939-1945$xOpérations aériennes britanniques.
650 6 $aPilotes d'aéronef militaires$zPologne$xHistoire$y20e siècle.
650 6 $aGuerre mondiale, 1939-1945$xRapatriement forcé.
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650 7 $aMilitary operations, Aerial$xPolish.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01710224
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650 7 $aAndra världskriget 1939-1945$xpolskt deltagande$zStorbritannien.$2sao
650 7 $aStridspiloter$xhistoria$zStorbritannien$y1939-1945 (andra världskriget)$2sao
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655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
700 1 $aCloud, Stanley.
740 0 $aQuestion of honor.
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