Wyrwicki, Eugeniusz

Chartered major Eugeniusz Wyrwicki

He was born 30. December 1901 in Pabianicích. In 1920 he volunteered to the Polish army. In 1923, completed his infantry officer training school and in 1924, he volunteered for the air force. He graduated from the lower pilot school in Bydgoszcz and higher pilot school in Grudziondzi. He served in the Aviation regiment 6 in Lviv as a pilot of the serial squadron, and from 1928 in the Aviation regiment 3 in Poznań. 12. November, 1929, a tragedy occurred during the filming of sequences for the film "Star squadron". The plane, piloted Wyrwicki is hit in the air with Potezem XV and his crew perished. Wyrwicki landed fine.

In 1931 he began to study at the High war school, and after its successful completion he was assigned to the IV. (air) department of the Ministry of military affairs. At his own request, he was reassigned to the the Air regiment 1 to Warsaw, where he was in the period from 22.11.1934 to 1.11.1936 the commander of the 113. fighter squadrons.

From 1937 he lectured the tactics of the fighter force at a Higher aviation school in Warsaw. It was an important air theorist. On the basis of his theoretical work was created Fighter brigade intended for anti-aircraft defense of Warsaw and included in the air defense forces of the state. He became chief of staff of this unit and was the co-author, at that time unique, the guidance system fighters.

From 1. September 1939 drove the air defense of Warsaw until the time when he was 6. on the afternoon of September unexpectedly ordered the transfer of the entire brigade at the airport node in the vicinity of Lublin. 11. September carried out on the machine PZL P.11c courier years to attacking the Cowl units of the armies "Poznań" and "Pomerania" with a stopover at mokotovském the airport in Warsaw. Fighting armies brought back a load of 180 kilograms of maps of the battle area.

After returning to the brigade shared its fortunes up to 17. September, when the remnants of the brigade had evacuated to Romania. Still to this day, however, on the machine RWD-13 by flying to the besieged Warsaw with orders of the Supreme commander for the headquarters of the defense of the capital.

18. 26. September several times flew on the machine PZL P.11a supplies to the besieged Modlinu.

26. September at 2.30 o'clock in the morning took off to the last flight over the territory of Poland. After removing the seats took to the cockpit of your single pezetelky lieutenant colonel Mateusz Iżyckého, the future commander of the Polish air force in England, and happily, without meeting with the machines of the Luftwaffe, arrived to Hungary.

After escaping to France he became involved in the formation of the Polish air force in exile as a flight instructor. He was appointed commander of the Polish 4th. fighter squadron, which, however, due to the lack of technology has not been created. Since the launch of the German-French war 10. may 1940 by a total of around fifty school, patrol and combat missions.

At the head of the Polish fighter swarms and with the French rank of commandant is 3. June 1940 reported the commander of the French fighter squadron GC II/10 on the airfield at Bernay. 4. and 5. June went fast retraining for a new type of fighter and 6. June was sent to the first combat action.

7. June 1940 went in the assembly 3. the squadron Blochu MB.152 C1 no. 115 white "2" to my last flight. About the course of the battle are not aware of the details, but a Czech writer and aviation historian Miroslav Šnajdr describes that around 17.40 hrs French union fighters in the space of the forest, the Eu attacked by a group of twenty-six of the Bf 109E. Polish sources reported that the flight was in the early morning (around 4.00 pm start of seven French and four Poles) into the space of the city of Amiens, where there was a meeting with six Bf 109, and in the approach to Amiens, the whole group got into a violent anti-aircraft fire from the ground and fire Messerů.

When the defensive maneuver on them from the side, the sun unexpectedly attacked the twin engine Bf 110. It was the machines hard fighter group II/ZG 76 and in the course of the fight he was commandant Wyrwicki shot down and badly wounded, probably in the 5.25. lt Hans-Joachim Jabsem. After an emergency landing he was taken to hospital in Rouen, where the same day he died. He was buried at the military cemetery in the village of dAuberive – grave no 284.

For his exemplary service in the Polish air force was awarded the Pilot's badge, Silver if the merit cross, the Gold honourable cross, the French Croix de Guerre and posthumously received the order of the Polish commander in Chief no 5/41 Silver cross the Order of Virtuti Militari number 12095.

Used literature:
Cornwell, Peter D.: The Battle of France Then and Now, After the Battle, Old Harlow 2007 (thank you Michal Cancer for the supplied information)
Cynk, Jerzy B.: Polskie lotnictwo myśliwskie w boju wrześniowym, AJ-Press, Gdańsk, 2000
Cynk, Jerzy B.: Polskie Siły Powietrzne w wojnie, EVEN 1939-1943, AJ-Press, Gdańsk 2001
Gretzyngier, Robert; Matusiak, Wojtek, Wójcik, Waldemar Zieliński, Józef: Ku czci poległych lotników 1939-1945, Altair, Warszawa 2006
Przedpełski, Andrzej: Lotnictwo w mind wojskowej II Rzeczypospolitej, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń 2001
Šnajdr, Miroslav: the Fall of Paris, the air war in the ten days of June 1940, Votobia 2000
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