Summary: Traces the history and contribution to the war effort of Polish airmen fighting in Britain, by following the diary of a 'typical example', which is found in the opening scene by two officers listing the possessions of a fighter pilot missing in action.
Description: Diary starts in August 1939 (a canoeing holiday); outbreak of war and fall of Warsaw (German newsreel footage); March 1940 in France; June 1940 to Britain, fighting in the Battle of Britain 1941. A letter from a comrade introduces sequence on Polish bomber crews operating Wellingtons: a flag smuggled out of Poland is received by a bomber squadron, a wounded man is decorated and promoted. A wounded pilot revisits the fighter squadron... Diary ends in December 1941, the diarist hopeful at news from USA, USSR, Libya etc, and about to leave on "an important mission". The voice which has been reading the entries continues "We will finish this diary".
