For Your Freedom & Ours: Lwów Eagle-Owls

For Your Freedom & Ours is a new exhibition at the Exeter Historic Guildhall on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 November, and it's free to get into. It's all about the Polish 307 Squadron, the night-fighter unit that served in the RAF and helped defend the South West of England during the Second World War. There's a local reason to take an interest here: the squadron's work is credited with preventing Exeter from being totally destroyed during the 1942 blitz, so it's a bit of history that hits close to home.

The exhibition itself is called Lwów Eagle-Owls (or Lwowskie Puhacze in Polish). It was put together two years ago and first shown at the Polish Air Force Museum in Dęblin before making its Exeter debut here. It's staged in partnership with that museum, and the whole thing is run by the 307 Squadron Project, a British-Polish registered charity that promotes the squadron's story and carries out further research on the 'Eagle-Owls' while fostering cooperation between the two nations.

Sunday 15 November is when the exhibition gets a bit more active. At 10:00, the Lord Mayor of Exeter will raise the Polish flag over the Guildhall. At 12:00, there's a service of remembrance and wreath-laying at the 307 Squadron Memorial in the St James Chapel of Exeter Cathedral. Then at 14:00, Polish Air Force expert Robert Gretzyngier gives a talk called 'Beaufighter Days', named for the twin-engine night fighter the squadron flew.

The exhibition runs from 10:00 to 16:00 on both Saturday and Sunday at the Exeter Historic Guildhall, 203 High St, EX4 3EB. It's free for the public, so you can just drop in whenever suits you over the weekend.