"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ...
Rick Durden wrote:

When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939 the Polish
Air Force fought courageously with outdated airplanes, all of which
could easily out-turn the Bf-109.

According to Len Deighton in "Blitzkrieg", Poland's aircraft were destroyed
on the ground early in the morning of 1 September, 1939. According to Johnny

Well, no. Another fine example that British have no idea about 1939
campaign and ignore all Polish history books.

"Polish Airforce was deployed at numerous airfields and although
numerically inferior and partially obsolete was very active during the
course of the campaign (e.g. over Warsaw). Polish pilots shot down in
combat over 137 enemy planes"

A.D.Danilecki "szopen"