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The Aviation School at Aleksandrowice near Bielsko
(currently a district of Bielsko-Biala)
had been established in 1936
by the activists if The Air and Anti-Gas Defence League at the airfield area,
which was built some time earlier
and it was the first air centre if this kind in Poland.
An idea to construct an airfield in the direct neighbourhood of Bielsko
originated in 1928.
It was a response to the fact that Czech Republic constructed a communication airfield
in Ostrava, which is located in the distance of several dozens kilometres...
Within 1935 the area of Bielsko airfield and its hinter and
was almost completed starting from completed not developed terrain.
Al investment works were carried out under strict supervision
of the Ministry of Communication
and the Communication and Construction Department
of the Silesian Province Office
as well as in co-operation with Ministry of Military Affairs.
This airfield located at the bottom of Beskidy Mountains included:
aircraft hangar, port building,
two-storey apartment building for personnel and students of the school,
repair shops and a fuel station.
The Marszałek J. Pilsudski LOPP Aviation School in Aleksandrowice
has been opened in 31st May 1936
and it was the first League's centre of this kind in Poland.
Training activity in the Aviation School in Aleksandrowice
a so took place during the last months of peace,
i.e. in July and August 1939,
despite the more and more tensed political situation.
4 fighter aircrafts PZL P-11
from the 2nd Aviatiin Regiment in Kraków
came to the airfield in Aeksandrowice.
Polish pilots, taking off from this airfield
shot down 3 German aircrafts during the first day of war.
The most famous graduate of this school was
captain pilot Eugeniusz 'Dziubek'' Horbaczewski,
the graduate of 1937,
one of the leading Polish fighter aces
(over 16 air victories, decorated, among other things,
with Gold and Silver Cross if the Virtuti Militari Order),
who died as a pilot during on air fight over France
on 18th August 1944.
Tadeusz Góra, another graduate of the school
had been, before the war in 1939,
decorated with the highest aviation distinction in the world,
the FAI LILIENTHAL Medal.
Tadeusz Góra forced his way to England,
where he fought in Polish aviation in the West (RAF),
the famous wing squadron 303.
Many other graduates of the school
took part in September's Campaign
and other in the a lied armed resistance against the invader.
It is estimated that within almost 4 years if activity,
the LOPP aviation school had trained at the airfield in Aleksandrowice,
mostly within the scope of Military Aviation preparation
about 190 aircraft pilots.
Those who returned to Poland after 1945,
instead of glory found humiliation,
they were roughly interrogated by UB (Security Office),
they lost many rights and privileges.
Communistic doctrine had treated them with contempt for their
courage, bravery and fighting will.
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