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The greatest Spitfire pilot of all time is Polish: Veteran, 100, is set to top a public RAF poll to find WWII's top flying hero after it's hijacked and shared by eastern European community

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The greatest Spitfire pilot of all time is Polish: Veteran, 100, is set to top a public RAF poll to find WWII's top flying hero after it's hijacked and shared by eastern European community   Empty The greatest Spitfire pilot of all time is Polish: Veteran, 100, is set to top a public RAF poll to find WWII's top flying hero after it's hijacked and shared by eastern European community

Post by Guest Sat Sep 23, 2017 1:41 pm

[*]Polish-born Franciszek Kornicki, 100, leads a poll for greatest WWII Spitfire pilot
[*]Kornicki famously led a daring attack on Nazi warplanes in Northern France 
[*]The poll was launched by the RAF Museum ahead of its 100th anniversary and was quickly shared by the UK's Polish community


A Polish war veteran is leading a British poll for the greatest Second World War Spitfire pilot by hundreds of thousands of votes. Franciszek Kornicki, 100, the last surviving Second World War Polish squadron commander, leads the online survey by a whopping 300,000 votes following a viral social media campaign by the UK's Polish community.  A member of the high-scoring 303 Squadron during World War II, the war hero famously escorted a group of British bombers over northern France, where he led a daring attack on Nazi warplanes.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4912300/Polish-squadron-commander-voted-greatest-spitfire-pilot.html#ixzz4tVODqfwo 
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