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Originally Posted by Franek Grabowski
They were flying combat missions and were targets for enemy fire. Does it not qualify for fighting?
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What combat missions or fighting?
RWD-8 was unarmed sport plane reaching 175 km/h, PWS-26 was a biplane with top speed 217 km/h carrying one MG and two 12,5 kg bombs - essentially World War I design. Those planes could not carry out any combat missions in 1939 aside of communication and recon duties. Every their combat use would be kamikaze-style operation. I am surprised their pilots flown them at all supposedly praying not to meet any German combat aircraft!
Yet possibly Polish forces had only such "combat planes" in late September...