Poland September 39

[Ziggy1969]

Please help me identifying destroyed polish air planes and maybe locations Radom?Mielec?

[drmessimer]

Ziggy1969: That is a tough one to answer, given the virtually utter destruction of whatever was inside that building, all there is to go on is a poor image of a vertical stabilizer and the left horizontal stabilizer and elevator. Based on those meager clues, my guess is that it might have been either a PZL. 23 high-wing, open cockpit fighter or a RWD. 14b Czapla cooperation aircraft. If I were to go out farther on the limb, I would say it is more likely to be the fighter because of the shape of the vertical stabilizer. But that is a poorly educated guess. Here are two drawings of both AC. The upper drawing is the fighter and the lower is the observation and fire-control aircraft. Dwight

[christek]

The unit insignia on the tail appears to be from the 123rd Fighter squadron. In Sept. 1939 this squadron comprised of 10 PZL P.7a airplanes.

[Ziggy1969]

Thank you very much for your help ziggy