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2 Sept 1939 Wekusa 1 Luftflotte 1 He 111J-1 B7+BA shot down near Posen it did fly over Warsaw, 2 KIA and 2 POW later liberated by either ppr Wlodzmierz Gedymin 131 Eskadra or kpt Franciszek Jastrzebski 132 Eskadra
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Thanks, but this plane could not be attributed to be destroyed over Warsaw by the Warsaw units (fighter or A/A) but by one of the pilots from Dywizjon "Poznański" (
III/3 commander was mjr Mieczysław Mümler). It was very good unit, which fought almost to "the end", up to 16/17 IX 1939.
One small remark, in Polish we written
ppor. pil. Włodzimierz Gedymin (ppor. is abbreviation of the word podporucznik pilot/lieutenant pilot)
The victor over He 111 was most probably Gedymin who shot down a weather reconnaissance aircraft Heinkel He 111. He hit him in a fuel tank caused a fire. Luftwaffe aircraft had crashed near the village Złotkowo.
Regards,
mw
BTW
see the Polish biography done by Franek Grabowski about Wodzimierz Gedymin
http://www.polishclub.org/2012/06/24...-czerwca-2012/