Dywizjon „Sęp”:
still not arrived at the airport throw pie. The commander was waiting for orders from brigade headquarters, but they are not coming in. Airmen have had enough of waiting, burned to the fight, and this time the next day waited and watched, "boldly marching enemy." Unfortunately, the plane liaison with staff not przylatywał.
Interestingly, the local airport company commander refused to assist in repairing the Elk, because he declared that no such orders (!) , waited for the bombers to fly French Amiot (that the airport was agreed landing place of French bombers, which were to bomb Germany and the shuttle flight to land in Poland).
At 15:00 arrived desired orders to bomb the enemy on the route ( Rzeszów groundbreaking worsk- Jaroslaw - Yavoriv ) but due to lack of maintenance and facilities are not made to order.
stock squadron had only 6 Elk efficient, ie 33% of the state from 1 September. Therefore, the demand was sent to the mines. 9 machines. Unfortunately, the concept of the command staff of the state of equipment in the twentieth Elk squadron was poor, was awarded to the X division is these machines. They were deprived of many basic aircraft components (sights, guns, compass, guide bombs), and for escorting the bombers were simply useless.
Squadron "Hawk":
About 8:30 in the morning began to evacuate from the airport to the new location Podlodowo to Wieliczka, near Kovel. One machine has proved to be too serious defects to go, had to be abandoned.
Elks took off on time, 10 minutes later the airport was bombed German. Fortunately, it went wheeled transportation in advance and has only slight damage to several trucks.
squadron commander, looking back from the cabin with smoke rising Moose abandoned just above the airport had to say: "I had a nose!" .
The new airport reached 11 Elk, a machine had forced to land on the road, near the village of Humen, the crew were not harmed.
sorties not performed.
that day, the High Command moved to Brest, Bomb Command Brigade also moved in this direction. When you arrive at Brest did not receive the radio station that was there waiting, which significantly worsened the communication with the squadrons.
still defending Polish resistance points (Wizna, Warsaw, Helsinki, Modlin and others), surprised the Germans, who had expected an easier confrontation. For this reason, the enemy had to regroup.
the north began the final attack on the fortifications near Wizna. In the south German divisions moved to cut off the Polish forces against possible escape routes into Romania overcame the San and moving towards the city.
Until that date, Germany has not bombed any significant airport with Polish bombers (except Małaszewicze and Butler).
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