**PICTURES MUST BE PUBLISHED WITH THE FRONT COVER** Military training in winter at Torun 1931-32. Wladek (21) is in the centre. THE INCREDIBLE life story of the first Allied pilot to score aerial kills against the Germans in WW2 has been revealed in a new biography written by the Polish war hero???s son. Fascinating pictures show Polish fighter pilot, Wladyslaw (Wladek) Gnys, who was credited with shooting down the first two German aircraft of WW2, before joining the Polish Air Force, doing his military training at the tender age of 21 and doing his first ever parachute jump at flying school. Other shots show Gnys??? English wife, Barbara Simmons and with his young family in April 1950. Gnys shot down the first two German aircraft on September 1, 1939, on the same day his squadron took off to intercept German invaders near Krakow and were attacked by German Stuka pilot, Frank Nuebert who killed the captain but Gnys went on to make the first Allied kills. The story has been told in the book, First Kills: The Illustrated Biography of Fighter Pilot Wladyslaw Gnys by his son, Stefan W. C. Gnys. It is published by Casemate Publishers. Stefan W. C. Gnys / Casemate Publishers / mediadrumworld.com