Author ARKADY FIEDLER (1894-1985), was born in Poznan,Poland, educated at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, in Poznan and at theUniversity of Leipzig.

A best-selling travel writer researching in Tahiti when WWIIbegan, Fiedler made his way back to Europe and joined the Polish Army in Franceafter Poland had fallen to the Germans.

His 32 books have been translated into 23 languages sellingover 10 million copies. 303 Squadron is his most famous andpopular book.



Translator JAREK GARLINSKI, born in London, England, grew upbilingual in English and Polish. Hisfather, noted historian and author Jozef Garlinski, and his mother EileenShort-Garlinska, one of only a few Britons who spent WWII in Warsaw, bothserved in the Polish Underground Army during the war.
Educated at the University of Nottingham, the University ofGrenoble, and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at theUniversity of London, Garlinski is fluent in French, Russian, English andPolish, with a distinguished career in education. He has translated numerous books of Polishliterature and history, specializing in the WWII era.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . xxi
A Note About... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Translator's Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
Author's Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiii

Chapter 1 - The Battle of Britain 1940 . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2 - The Fighter Pilot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 3 - 31st August: The First Battle . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 4 - 2nd September: Comradeship . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 5 - When the Ammunition Ran Out... . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 41
Chapter 6 - 5th-6th September: You Win Some, You Lose Some .. 49
Chapter 7 - 7th September: A Tasty Morsel-Dorniers . . . . .. . . . 64
Chapter 8 - Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Chapter 9 - A Smile Through the Blood . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 84
Chapter 10 - The Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Chapter 11 - 11th September: The Greatest Victory . . . . .. . . . . . . . 100
Chapter 12 - The Enemy's Dance of Death . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 113
Chapter 13 - A Brave Czech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Chapter 14 - The Colourless Roots of Brilliant Flowers . . .. . . . . . 128
Chapter 15 - A Fearless, Flawless Airman . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 141
Chapter 16 - The Myth of the Messerschmitt 110 . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 152
Chapter 17 - Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Chapter 18 - 15th September: Fate in the Balance . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 172
Chapter 19 - 15th September: Fate Decided . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 183
Chapter 20 - 'We Are Beginning to Understand the Poles' . .. . . . . 191

HISTORICAL HORIZON
The Road to Britain for the Polish Air Force:
A Brief Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 203

APPENDICES
Appendix 1 - Glossary of English, Polish, German and French
Terms and Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 221

Appendix 2 - Polish Air Force Ranks and their Royal AirForce
Equivalents During World War II . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 227

Appendix 3 - 303 Squadron Personnel in the Battle of Britain. . . . 231

Appendix 4 - PilotBiographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
TadeuszAndruszków . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Michä Brzezowski. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Arsen Cebrzy¿ski. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Jan Daszewski . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Miros¿aw Feri¿ .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Athol Forbes . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Josef František .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Zdzis¿awHenneberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Stanis¿aw Karubin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Ronald Kellett .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
John Kent . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Zdzis¿aw Krasnod¿bski. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Witold¿okuciewski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
LudwikPaszkiewicz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Marian Pisarek .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
EugeniuszSzaposznikow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Witold Urbanowicz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Stefan Wójtowicz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Kazimierz Wünsche. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Jan Zumbach . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Appendix 5 - 303 Squadron Claimed Victories During the
Battle of Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 289

Appendix 6 - Brothers In Arms: The 303 Squadron Badge
and the Original Ko¿ciuszko Squadron . . . . . . . . . . . .297

Appendix 7 - The Song of 303 Squadron . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 313

Appendix 8 - Against All Odds: The Creation of the Polish
Air Force Colour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 319

Appendix 9 - Operational Units of the Polish Air Force
in Great Britain during World War II . . . . . . . . . . . .. 327
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