The present article contains new information about the aircraft of the Pursuit Brigade and their paint schemes, gleaned from a series of unique photographs taken by Henryk Podd\u0119bski at Ok\u0119cie Airfield shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.<\/p>\n
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For years I have been trying to find the answer to the following question: what was the physical appearance of Polish aircraft at the start of the Second World War?<\/p>\n
More specifically, I was always intrigued by their paint schemes and markings at the time. Because of my place of birth and residence, I was most interested in the history of squadrons associated with the largest pre-war Polish aviation unit \u2013 the 1st<\/sup> Aviation Regiment, stationed at Ok\u0119cie Airfield(which in 1939 was located near Warsaw).<\/p>\n For a great many years we had at our disposal only limited photographic material from which to form a response to the question posed above.\u00a0 Because of the introduction of highly restrictive regulations governing military secrets in 1936, today there are relatively few photographs showing Polish military aircraft from the second half of the 1930s. Particularly rare are pictures from 1938 and 1939, while those that were taken by Poles immediately before war broke out and in September 1939 and at once comprehensively present aeroplane paint schemes and markings can be counted on the fingers of both hands.<\/p>\n PZL P.11c 1\/48 – Galeria – Maciek Z\u0142otkowski<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n