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Władysław Gnyś (24 August 1910 – 28 February 2000) was a Polish pilot of the Polish Air Force and probably the first Allied victor in aerial combat in World War II. In 1931, Wladyslaw Gnys entered military service with the Polish Air Force. In 1933 he began air training in Grudziadz and by 1935 was a flying instructor at the Polish Air Force Academy at Deblin. ==The defense of Poland, September 1939== By May 1939 Gnyś had been posted to the 121st Eskadra Mysliwska (121st Fighter Escadrille) in the city of Kraków, equipped with obsolete PZL P.11c fighters. On 31 August the Squadron was assigned to operate with the III/2 Dywizjon (Group) and it relocated to a reserve airfield in Balice. In the early morning of 1 September 1939, Gnyś was woken by a German bombing raid on Kraków. At about 7am (according to other sources, 5:30am) Gnyś flew a sortie with Cptn. Mieczyslaw Medwecki, the Group Commander. Just after take off and at about 300 meters altitude the Polish fighters were suddenly attacked by a pair of German Ju 87B dive-bombers from I/StG 2 "Immelmann". ''Unteroffizier'' Frank Neubert successfully fired at Medwecki and scored probably the first aerial victory of the war. The P-11 fell away having suffered serious damage, and Medwecki was killed. Gnyś was now also under attack, and he shot at a "Stuka" piloted by Lt. Brandenburg. The German aircraft started to smoke, but the aircraft managed to return to base at Nieder-Ellguth. A few minutes later Gnyś attacked two Do-17E bombers from KG 77. After a few passes both Do-17 bombers crashed in the country village of Zurada, near Olkusz. One of the German bombers was coded "3Z+FR" on its fuselage and all six crew members were killed, one later identified as a Uffz. Klose. On his return to base Gnyś met a lone He 111, but he was out of ammunition. There is, however, controversy regarding this victory. According to Marius Emmerling, based on German wartime sources two Do 17Es from 7./KG 77 indeed crashed near Żurada, but this was caused by Polish anti-aircraft artillery, which damaged one Do 17 which then collided with the other. The combat in which Medwecki was shot down took place in 5:30-6:00am and, according to Emmerling, Gnyś only fired at the Ju 87 but did not hit it, nor did he meet Do 17s. Other authors however claim that damage to a Do 17, which caused a collision, might have been caused by Gnyś.〔Marius Emerling: ''Pierwszy zestrzał w kampanii wrześniowej 1939 r. - Mit ppor.pil. Władysława Gnysia'' in: Lotnictwo Wojskowe Nr.5/2002 (in Polish); Letters to editor in: Lotnictwo Wojskowe Nr.6/2002〕 Gnyś personally scored another victory in September 1939, claiming a He-111. On the 6th, while other sources give the date as the morning of 9 September, Sergeants Leopold Flanek and Tadeusz Arabski were engaged in an aerial combat. During this engagement Flanek's plane was heavily damaged but was able to return to Kraczewice airfield. Tadeusz Arabski was able to share a single kill of a He-111 bomber. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Władysław Gnyś」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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