Squadron's flying personnel in 1941.  
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Left: Needs info. Right: President of Poland, Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz visiting the unit on 11 November 1941.

Left: 15 Nov 1942, Exeter. No 307 Squadron receives Polish Air Force standard during the ceremony at the city square. It stayed with the unit for three month. Right: Exeter, September 9th, 1942. Gen. Sikorski, C-in-C Polish Armed Forces visiting the unit. He flew in on board of one of the squadron's Beaufighters.

Left: Exeter. September 9th, 1942. Getting back to his transport EW-V. Gen. Sikorski with last words to F/Lt Lewandowski. With his back to the camera standing is general's adjutant F/Lt Glowczynski. Right: After receiving Polish Cross of Valour. S/Ldr Lewndowski (left) and S/Ldr Sawczynski.

 
Left:F/O Malinski (left) and F/O Neyder. Right: Except T. Buckiewicz (second from left) all these 307 airmen are unidentified.

From left: S/Ldr Damsz, F/Lt Sylwestrowicz, W/Cdr Orzechowski, P/O T. Buckiewicz and F/Sgt Dunin-Rzuchowski.
The last formed a crew for many sorties. Notice that both men are tall and it must had been difficult for them to get in and out of a Mosquito.

Left: Pilot F/Lt Grzegorz Bukowiecki killed in flying accident in 1942. Right: Rafal Dabrowski, technical officer.

Left: S/Ldr Jerzy Damsz by his EW-Z (Zocha), EL154. Right: Needs info.

    
Left: F/O Jerzy Brochocki. Right: F/Lt Tadeusz Buckiewicz. He flew 71 operational sorties with the squadron. After the war settled in Canada. His two brothers flew with 300 and 318 squadrons.

Left: Sgt Stanislaw Jarzembowski. He took part in the Polish campaign flying as a gunner with Army co. unit. He was killed during a training flight (Beaufighter X7935) on 1 Aug 1942. During a short period of time both engines failed and pilot (F/Sgt Malinowski) force-landed crippled a/c. Right: W/O Rochminski.

  
Left: F/Lt Jan Malinski. Right: F/Sgt Jerzy Trzaskowski.

Left: Sgt Tadeusz Wieckowski. After the war settled in Canada and became a dentist. Right: Alfred Suskiewicz. Together with another 307 pilot Maksymilian Smogor, gained big popularity among his colleagues, when flying a Mosquito from England to Karachi in 1946, they had to force-land in a desert in Saudi Arabia. Before landing they radio S.O.S. but soon after were found by... two Arab women in a Jeep. These women were two of fourteen-wives Harem, which belonged to a local Sheik. They found the Sheik imprisoned in a little compound and his fourteen wives ruling. Poles were “sentenced” to perform certain male duties and were rescued by an American patrol nearly two weeks later.

Left: The 307 officers: Buchowiecki, Andrzejewski (piltos), Mika and Zielinski (navigators).  Right: Fitter Stanislaw Wojciechowski (left) and pilot F/O Jellinek 

 
Left: F/O Dziegielewski (left), F/Lt Alexandrowicz, F/O Andrzejewski and F/O Malinski. Dziegielewski (later KIA) receieved a half-crown for a drink and... condoms, after he shot down a Ju88 over Plymouth in November 1941. Alexandrowicz (later KAS) as a controversial Flight "A" commander had to leave the 307. He joined No 219 night fighter squadron a was credited with three German bombers destroyed. Right: The unit's adjutant Antoni Mackowiak (left) and navigator Henryk Ziolkowski.

 
Left: Pilot Marian Koterla. Right: Two of the unit's older pilots: Jan Buczynski and Jan Michalowski.

Maks Lewandowski, unit's CO from November 1943 till May 1944.

S/Ldr Jan Michalowski

W/O Lewczynski

 
F/Lt Juliusz Baykowski