Sikorski's tourists

Second Polish Republic and its borders. Borders used by "Sikorski's tourists" included the Lithuanian to the north-east, and Romanian to the south-east.
Painting on a Hurricane of the No. 303 "Kościuszko" Polish Fighter Squadron, a Polish squadron fithgint during the Battle of Britain, indicating 126 claimed air-to-air kills shot down by the Squadron, some of Sikorski's tourists.

Sikorski's tourists (Polish: turyści Sikorskiego) refers to the thousands of Poles who escaped occupied Poland, following the country's defeat in September 1939, and found their way to France and the United Kingdom, to enlist in the re-formed Polish Army under the Western Allies.


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