This is a detailed history of one of the best Polish squadrons fighting in the September Campaign of 1939. Equipped with PZL.23 Karaś machines, the basic reconnaissance and bomber aircraft of the Polish Air Force in the 1939 war, the unit fought on the southern section of the Polish-German front, also performing flights combat over enemy territory. And although units equipped with Karaś aircraft suffered very heavy losses in 1939, the 24th Squadron, thanks to skillful tactics and efforts to replenish equipment, ended the war and evacuated to Romania the same number of machines with which it went to war. This squadron, as one of the few, also operationally used the latest reconnaissance aircraft of the Polish Air Force, the LWS-3 Mewa type. The book contains colorful boards with planes of the 24th Squadron, including Crucians armed with Szczeniak-type machine guns, shown for the first time, as well as Mewa, whose wartime painting was reconstructed for the first time based on a photograph from September 1939. Its strong point is also an exceptionally interesting a set of archival photographs, most of which have not been published yet.
Some of the photos were taken during the war by Polish pilots (exceptional rarity!) which in itself speaks about the value of this study.