The display will be on show at the Battle of Britain Bunker, a heritage attraction and museum in Uxbridge, west London.
The exhibition will formally open when COVID-19 restrictions in Britain are relaxed, Polish state news agency PAP reported, adding that the museum has made a trailer for the exhibition available on its website and on social media.
Many of the items in the exhibition are being shown to the public for the first time, “alongside fascinating personal stories and historic film,” the Battle of Britain Bunker said on its website.
It added: “The exhibition highlights the perilous journeys undertaken by Polish Air Force personnel [to Western Europe] following the invasion of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939” after the start of World War II.
The display was set up by Hillingdon Council, the local government authority, working with the Polish Air Force Memorial Committee, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
The Battle of Britain is the name given to a series of aircraft battles that were waged from July to the end of October 1940 against the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) to save Britain from Nazi invasion.
'...so much owed by so many to so few'
Polish pilots are credited with shooting down more than 200 enemy aircraft during the campaign.
A total of 29 Polish pilots died in the Battle of Britain, including eight from the famous No. 303 Squadron, which downed more German planes than any other Allied squadron fighting in the skies over Britain in 1940, according to Polish media.
In a speech on August 20, 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill referred to the contribution of Polish airmen to the Battle of Britain in the following words: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
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Source: IAR