London, Oct. 8.
A major of the Polish Air Force has received his country's. highest military decoration, the Virtuti Militari Cross, from General Sikorski; Polish Premier and Commander-in-Chief, in a military hospital in south-east England, where he has been sent after being wounded in a recent air battle in the defence of London. Y The major is the leader of a fighter squadron bearing the name.of Kosciusko, Poland's national hero, which brought down 109 Nazi planes during September.
The major escaped from his burning plane and came down in his Pazachute which was also im flames, LR
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