Opening Gambit, Poland, 2nd September 1939 by David Pentland. (GS) SQN440 Original coloured print circa 1911

Original coloured print circa 1911

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Opening Gambit, Poland, 2nd September 1939 by David Pentland. (GS) SQN440 Original coloured print circa 1911DP17GS. Opening Gambit, Poland, 2nd September 1939 by David Pentland. Porucznik Stanislaw Skalski of 142nd Eskrada, flying a Polish airforce PZL P 11c, downs a Messerschmitt 110 during the first days of WWII. Although officially credited as a Dornier bomber, it is now believed that the aircraft was an Me110 from 1 ZG1. The discrepancy is attributed to the fact that the reported aircraft used nose mounted cannons unlike the Dornier, and up until then