WW2 Polish Air Force Newspaper 1941 with Signatures of Polish Airmen (“Wiadomości z świat”)

Polish AIr Force Front newspaper “Wiadomości z świat” from 1941, published by the Cultural Department of the Polish Air Force Inspectorate. A newspaper signed by almost 30 Polish airmen “Polish Cadets” who participated in the 45th training course of air gunners at Stormy Down in Wales (1941), most of the signatures have been deciphered..

The content of the newspaper consists of a letter from R.C.Cobb, an English teacher with the title “I’m leaving as a Polonophile”, a fragment of the Gospel of St. Luke, the current offer of the Polish bookstore in Blackpool, descriptions of American diving planes with drawings as well as current news from the front.

On the front page of the newspaper there are signatures of Polish Airmen, including most likely:

– Corporal Edward Kazimierz Zakielarz (300 Bomber Squadron, decorated with the fifth-class Virtuti Militari, twice decorated with the Cross of Valor, killed in 1942)

– Corporal Adolf Tadeusz Hipp (18 OTU – Operational Training Unit, killed in 1942)

– Lance Sergeant  Jan Zdzisław Kobiela (300 Bomber Squadron, decorated with the Cross of Valor)

-Lance Sergeant Emil Władysław Babijczuk (307 Night Fighter Squadron “Lwowskich Puchaczy)

– Corporal Florian Sapiecha (301 Bomber Squadron, decorated with the Cross of Valor, killed in 1942)

– Lance Sergeant Stanisław Zygmunt Piechowiak (304 Bomber Squadron, three times decorated with the Cross of Valor, killed in 1942)

– Sergeant Major Józef Łapicki (305 Bomb Squadron, decorated with Virtuti Militari 5th class, decorated four times with the Cross of Valor)

– sergeant Jan Antoni Wesołowski (301 Bomb Squadron, three times decorated with the Cross of Valor)

– Sergeant Major Zbigniew Więsak (301 Bomb Squadron, 1586 Special Purpose Squadron, decorated with the fifth class Virtuti Militari, four times decorated with the Cross of Valor)

– Sergeant Major Konstanty Czernek (300 Bomber Squadron, decorated with the fifth class Virtuti Militari, four times decorated with the Cross of Valor)

– sergeant Mikołaj Edward Siądecki (304 Bomber Squadron, 305 Bomber Squadron, three times decorated with the Cross of Valor)

The document is in condition as shown in the photos, with visible cracks, dirt and damage.