Stanisław Ujejski
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Stanisław Ujejski (14 November 1891 - 31 March 1981) was a Polish general and aviator. He first won distinction as a cavalry officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War, moving to the new Polish Army after the end of that conflict and being assigned to military aviation.
He was promoted to brigadier general in January 1939 and upon the general mobilisation on 24 August the same year was made chief of staff to Józef Zając, head of the Polish Air Force. He fought in the September Campaign and on 18 September escaped to Romania. He then moved on to France to rebuild the Polish Air Force and from March 1940 was its second in command, continuing in that role in Britain after the Fall of France.
In July 1940 he was promoted to command the Polish Air Force to support Zajac and also made inspector general of the Air Force to support Jan Kalkus. After general Władysław Sikorski's death in 1943 he left that post to be inspector general of the fire brigade from 18 July to 19 September 1943.