Polish volunteers in Finnish Air Force 1939-1940
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Polish volunteers in Finnish Air Force 1939-1940
The book In the Shadow of the Soviet Empire - Poland and Finland, two Borderlands (edited by Marek Kornat), Warsaw 2016 (ISBN 978-83-66883-20-8) contains the papers presented at the joint Polish-Finnish Historians Conference in Warsaw in October 2021 including my paper Polish assistance to the Finnish Air Force during the Winter War 1939-40 (pages 171-192, with lists of identified pilots of the Polish "Finnish Squadron" being prepared in Lyon in February 1940 for departure to Finland, Polish volunteer aviation specialist already serving in Finland etc.
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Re: Polish volunteers in Finnish Air Force 1939-1940
There was no departure. Finland signed an armistice with the USSR for about a month in 1940.