1st Lt. observer
Stanisław Walkow (1914–1939) – first lieutenant observer of the Polish Army, associated with the 2nd Aviation Regiment in Kraków. After completing the observer course at CWL-1 in Dęblin he was transferred to the aviation officers corps and assigned to the 2nd Aviation Regiment in Kraków. He served as an observer in the 22nd Bomber Squadron, operating within the Bomber Brigade. During the September Campaign of 1939 he flew combat sorties on PZL P.23 “Karaś” aircraft. On 3 September 1939 he took off from the Kamień airfield near Radom with a crew consisting of Capt. Pilot K. Słowiński and Cpl. Gunner S. Korytowski, with the mission of bombing German armoured columns on the Radomsko–Gorzkowice road. After completing the mission the aircraft was shot down by German anti-aircraft fire near Zagórze. The entire crew was killed. They were buried in a collective grave at the cemetery in Gidle near Radomsko.
