AIR OB

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004100090009-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 17, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document oootsinu Information affecting the 1 a-tionni Defense of the Vatted Notes, within the mean-
Ing of Title 14, Deptlone 7S and 7W, of the V.B. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of Its oontenjs
to or receipt by an unauthorised person Is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this fops Is prohibited.
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COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Air OB
REPORT
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1. Shortly after the war, the Polish Air Force had three attack regiments which
were stationed in Lodz, Strachowice (near Wroclaw) and Bydgoszcz. These three
regiments formed, the basis for the development of.the three air force divisions
of attack planes which are in existence today. These divisions, which are each
composed of three regiments, are gradually being equipped'with Soviet jet bombers
called IL-281 the propeller-driven planes, called IL-2 and IL-10, which are still
used by some of the regiments are being gradually returned to the USSR.
2. Only Soviet officers are in command of Polish air force regiments and they also
occupy the most important positions in the regiments.. Young Polish officers,
mainly of the rank of captain, are not permitted to fly unless accompanied by
a Soviet and they have no possibility to command even the smallest air force
unit, called a "key"(klutzwhich is composed of three planes.
3.
located in the following towns:
units of these regiments are
a. Strachowice (near Wroclaw)
b. Opole
c. Gliwice
d. Ruda Pabianicka (N 51-42, E 19-27)
e. Aleksandrow (near Lodz)
f. Lowicz (N 52-07, E 19-56)
g. Elblag
h. Malbork
is Priiszcz (N 54-16,. E 18-38) (in the process of being completed)
3. Torun (N 53-02, E 18-36)
k. Bydgoszcz
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