Hello, it is the weekend, Friday evening here, so I am making time for another stamp from Poland. This one is from a set of 8 issued in 1943 and shows a Wellington with a memory of the Polish Airforce in the Battle of the Atlantic. The Battle of the Atlantic was a WW II battle between the Western Allies and the Axis powers, notably Germany, for control of the Atlantic sea routes.

The Wellington was a long range bomber used by some of the Polish Air Force Bomber Squadrons who were formed as part of the RAF during WW II.
Very dramatic image I think. I don’t know anything about the Battle itself so just this one piece of aircraft / Polish trivia – During the May 1942 bombing raid on Cologne, 599 out of 1,046 RAF aircraft dispatched were Wellingtons; of these,101 were flown by Polish aircrew.
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All the best, see you soon and have a great weekend. Michael cddstamps.com …. or visit my online store https://www.hipstamp.com/store/cddstamps where I have some interesting aviation related material and, with a very special Ides of March 15% off promotion
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