Stanisław Skalski

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Polish fighter ace and general (1915-2004)

WritersLived 1915 to 2004 · aged 88

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Stanisław Skalski, was a Polish aviator and fighter ace who served with the Polish Air Force and British Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

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Stanisław Skalski

Skalski with Air Marshal Arthur Coningham (pictured left) and General Kazimierz Sosnkowski (pictured right).

A Mustang flown by Stanisław Skalski, Coolham, June 1944.

Stanisław Skalski after arrest by communist political police 1948

Stanisław Skalski's monument, Warsaw (Poland), 30 July 2006

Stanislaw Skalski on the tailfin of a Polish Mikoyan MiG-29 (2016)

Awards 21

Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta

Distinguished Service Order

Medal of the National Education Commission

Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland

Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 3rd class

Silver Medal of Merit for National Defence

Gold Medal of Merit for National Defence

Bronze Medal of Merit for National Defence

Medal for Participation in the Defensive War of 1939

Medal for Warsaw 1939-1945

Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945

Medal of the 30th Anniversary of People's Poland

Distinguished Flying Cross

Order of the Smile

Silver Medal "Armed Forces in the Service of the Homeland"

Gold Medal "Armed Forces in the Service of the Homeland"

Wound Decoration

Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari

Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari

Cross of Combat Action of the Polish Armed Forces in the West

Polonia Mater Nostra Est

Connected to Stanisław 6

Michał Rola-ŻymierskiAlso won Wound Decoration

Henryk JabłońskiAlso won Medal for Participation in the Defensive War of 1939

Waldemar SkrzypczakAlso won Silver Medal "Armed Forces in the Service of the Homeland"

Elżbieta ZawackaAlso won Polonia Mater Nostra Est

Ivan BoldinAlso won Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945

Wiktor ThomméeAlso won Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari

About this person

Stanisław Skalski, was a Polish aviator and fighter ace who served with the Polish Air Force and British Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Skalski was the top Polish fighter ace of the war and chronologically the first Allied fighter ace of the war, credited, according to the Bajan's list, with 18 11/12 victories and two probable. Some sources, including Skalski himself, give a number of 22 11/12 victories.