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25-05-2007, 02:33 PM
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 | The Polish Air Force's Contribution I'm sure I've seen this site posted here before but the links page is a handy starting point for a lot of info on the PAF dring the war (saves having to blunder around google): History - WWII - Battle of Britain
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25-05-2007, 04:14 PM
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 | For that, they were not treated very well at wars end.
__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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26-05-2007, 08:49 PM
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| For anyone who might be interested I recommend the book : - "The Forgotten Few: The Polish Air Force in the Second World War" - by Adam Zamoyski Quote:
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26-05-2007, 09:50 PM
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| I haven't read that one. Will have to check it out at some stage. I've got "For Your Freedom and Ours: The Kosciuszko Squadron - Forgotten Heroes of World War II" by Olson & Cloud. A good read but I would have liked some more detailed appendices.
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27-05-2007, 12:27 AM
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Link to some reviews: - Reviews Link to the first few pages of the book: - Forgotten Few | |
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27-05-2007, 12:35 AM
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 But I'm sure I could squeeze another book out of my overdraft 
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27-05-2007, 12:36 AM
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| Actually, do you have a copy? What are the "facts & figures" like. Do you get a lot of details on missions etc?
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It does give facts and figures but as part of the narrative and not a large amount. I’d say it’s mainly a decriptive account of what the Polish airmen did, starting in Poland. Here is part of the description on the jacket :- By the beginning of 1941, there was a fully fledged Polish Air Force operating alongside the RAF. With 14 squadrons and support services, it was larger than the air forces of the Free French, Dutch, Belgians and all the other European Allies operating from Britain put together. Some 17,000 men and women passed through its ranks while it was stationed on British soil. They not only played a crucial part in the Battle of Britain, they also contributed significantly to the Allied war effort in the air and took part in virtually every type of RAF operation, including the bombing of Germany, the Battle of the Atlantic and Special Operations. This book is not intended as a full history of the Polish Air Force. Nor does it pretend to assess the exact contribution of these men and women to the Allied cause. The intention is to give a picture of who they were, where they came from, how they got here and what they did. | |
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