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Thank you so much for this Gloreeyah - one of the pilots interviewed here Kornicki (pronounced Kornitski) was a good friend of my father after the war (my father was a bomber Navigator). He was a lovely man and had two very talented sons. My father only spoke a few words of English when he arrived, but was a great linguist, but he never lost his accent. Frantisek was a Czech who had joined the Poles and preferred to fly with the Poles rather than the Czech figure squadrons, because they were less bureaucratic. An amazing pilot who could not survive, but shot down many Germans before he passed. God bless you. xx
Mój dziadek służąc w 1samodzielnej brygadzie skoczków spadochronowych pod dowództwem generała Sosabowskiego brał udział w operacji Market Garden. Skakał pod Arnhem. Przeżył jako jeden z nielicznych. Montgomery zrobił z nich kozłów ofiarnych, a mojego dziadka po powrocie do ojczyzny czekała katownia UB... Szacunek dla Pani wielki za pamięć o naszych bohaterach.
@@KWIDZYNIAK1000 Mój miał też do końca życia żal do Brytyjczyków za to jak potraktowali Sosabowskiego i Polskiego żołnierza. W latach 90 dziadek otrzymał odznaczenie od królowej Holandii. Do tego była długa droga aby odznaczyć Polaków bo sprzeciwiali się Brytyjczycy naciskając na ministerstwo obrony Holandii
Mój służył jako radio operator na brytyjskich tankowcach na które ciągle polowały u-boty. Przeżył, ale nabawił się reumatyzmu i zmarł jak miałem 2 lata nie dożywając nawet 70 lat.
The Poles gave us the first Enigma machine and german codes. They fought in the battle of Britain and at Monte Cassino and almost everywhere by land sea and air. They fought and walked with Jewish civilians all the way through Europe and Persia to North Africa. It was also a Free Polish officer that invented and gave the Allies the first mine detectors. 🇬🇧 303👍🏼
My grandfather was part of the English groundcrew for 309 Squadron of Polish volunteers. To the end of his life, he always praised the courage of the Polish air crews. They knew that any aeroplane brought home could be repaired or at least used for parts, so they would fly in with their aircraft on fire, to avoid it being lost. Then, they just got into another one and went back out. He was furious that they were not honoured in the victory parades. Our "ally" Russia had just invaded Poland, so it was considered a bad idea to praise the courage of its people. Grandad always said we could not have won without them. When he left the squadron, his Polish friends gave him a beautiful photo album, now in the possession of my father. It's filled with photos of the aeroplanes he worked on and the pilots, navigators, gunners and groundcrew he worked with. Long after he died, I happened to find someone online who was looking for information about his father's service as a Polish airman in Britain. He was also in 309 Squadron and one of the group photos showed him. I was so happy to be able to send him a copy of the photo and the list of names from it. He had never seen a picture of his father in uniform It's a tiny thing to give back to men who gave so much to my country and to the world, but at least I could give his son that and I also told him what my grandfather said about the bravest men he ever knew.
Thank you so much for this and your and your grandfather's kindness to my father's comrades in arms - it is good to know how many British people loved the Poles. My father was a navigator in 300 Squadron flying Wellingtons. What aircraft were 309 flying when your father was there?
Thank you for this sincere and touching testimony of the true history of our peoples! As a Pole, I moved. You are a wonderful man! Only happy days in your life!
@@arturjj8761 Thank you Artur and may your life too be happy. We Poles can be proud of the national sacrifice our people have made in the cause of freedom. Walking through the reconstructed Old Town of Warsaw and the memorials to the Uprising bears testimony to this.
GOD I LOVE YOU SIR . AND WILL NEVER FORGET WHAT THE POLES CONTRIBUTED. WE WERE LET DOWN BY THE YANKS . WOULD HAVE MEANT ANOTHER WAR ..IM ASHAMED OF NOT LETTING THE POLES , MARCH , I WORKED WITH POLES , ALWAYS RESPECTED.
@@maxmoore3472 Thank you Sir. The most important thing for my father was Britain was the "Last Chance Island" and gave the Poles who get here the chance and the equipment too fight back. That was more than any other nation did, so he was very grateful to Britain and had a Union Jack flag on his coffin and was buried in the Polish Air Force cemetery in Newark.
I am part Polish, And Very proud of my Polish Heritage . This movie is just one example of The fighting spirit, bravery, and courage of The Polish People. The Polish Motto is, " It is better to die fighting, than to die on Your Knees". 🇵🇱
Your national pride is most admirable....keep that flame burning bright. P.S I think the saying is "It is better to die fighting on your feet, than live on your knees".
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Thank You. Yes, there are a couple different ways that it is worded. But, nonetheless they have the meaning, and the point is Strongly conveyed, ' It is better to die fighting, than on Your knees'. 🇵🇱
Przykre,że Anglia nas sprzedała i po II wojnie światowej spod okupacji niemieckiej przeszliśmy pod okupację sowiecką.Teraz mamy okupację banksterską,wciąż w Polsce rządzą ludzie wykreowani politycznie w czasie PRL,nadal nie mamy wolności.
@@vlodeklukasz1065 Przykre, że nasi politycy nie potrafili przekalkulować ryzyka. Teraz jest to samo. W polityce międzynarodowej nie ma takiego pojęcia jak wdzięczność. Tylko kalkulacja. A skoro tak, to musimy się nauczyć na tym przykładzie, żeby NIGDY WIĘCEJ nie być naiwnymi. Nie zmienia to faktu, że zachowaliśmy się jak trzeba i uratowaliśmy HONOR. Szkoda, że tak wielkim kosztem.
I am a 70 year old Englishman, from childhood I have known many Polish people who settled in the UK after the war and was never aware of any animosity shown towards them. Many became builders or engineers and integrated into the British way of life. Many towns had Polish clubs where Poles could gather to meet old friends and forge new relationships. I've never heard of any trouble around these clubs and many still thrive to this day. I knew the Polish Airforce had been in the UK during the war, but was unaware of the impact they made until seeing this film. Thank you for bringing it to my attention and thank you to those Polish airmen and their families for their valiant efforts.
TO watch this disgraceful, agenda laden channel 4 program is an insult to the British... You're absolutely bang on with everything you say Ivan.... Well said.
Yes learn history from tv... and you be another colony soon...(sharia law in birmigham or bradford..is tha remind you anything??? Look for enemies somhere else..we hepl you that's unbetalblle fact's Other facts there was not polish gov.. But Now start from begining... there are a diary notes, weterans and them families who know all truth about it and have all documents Why there are still forgoted? Even on WW2 Event's and reminders? Or monuments??? About WW2 Sorry mate but, information from polish weterans It might be a good idea IF You really want to know anything abou it It is not to difficult some weterans are stilk alive and them falilies have ALl information about what was happen before battle and after ..and how honoured and recpected was the peole who fight for your contry at those times Then we start talk ok? UP Date the truth information first not from any tv or gov from real people KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH ARE ESSENTIAL
@@konradadamczyk5755 sorry they have no idea abou it ,the got info from tv..so how they want to know the real truth? Dairys Weterans and famillies albums are stil Avalliable for any one who REALLY want to KNOW the TRUTH about history even about them history.. So sad! No argumnets they stsrt about communism..well they know history about communism better them polish We survue germans communism and many other tyrany an they will tolk about all getting the knowledge from tv.. oh sorry give me a break
@@xxxpostronieprawdy6461 I think you'll find the truth is, we declared war on Germany when they invaded Poland. Of course many Poles escaped and joined the allied forces wherever they could, but they cannot be credited with saving Britain, although they did make a valuable contribution to the fight, as did very many other countries. Respect to all who were, and are, prepared to give up their lives in the pursuit of freedom.
In America we always made Poles the butte of every joke. None of us had anything against the Poles. We'd never met one. We just needed a whipping boy. After learning their history in World War II I can see how stupid that was of us. The Poles without exception fought brilliantly in World War II. They deserve better.
@@PabloPopova akurat ten miał tak wielki żal do Czechów o poddanie się bez walki, że wybrał walkę u boku Polaków, mowił, że jest Polakiem. Był prawdziwym wojownikiem walczącym o wolność.
Don't be ashamed Kate, this program is complete channel 4 Brit hating bullshit. Do some widely sourced reading and see that the Poles were well treated by the British people in the terrible circumstances that existed after WW2.
I came across your video today…my grand uncle was a founder and first commander of 303 squadron. His name was Zdzisław Krasnodębski alias “King”. After he was shoot and severely burned he just tech on the ground and Urbanowicz, his friend, became a commander. They have been brave and betrayed after war. My uncle died in Toronto where was a cab driver…him and his wife’s ashes were transferred to Warsaw cemetery Powązki few years ago.
You really must stop this depressive nonsense about "being betrayed". They were NOT betrayed at all. Britain was on its' knees in 1945. There was nothing that the British Government could do to influence events in Poland. It was the POLISH Communist Party and their running dogs who took control in Warsaw supported by the Soviets in January 1945. British Forces .... and Polish Forces in the West at this time, were fighting towards Germany in Belgium, Eastern France, Italy, and Greece. The plan to assist the Warsaw Uprising was developed at lightning speed and ready to go but was prevented by the Soviets. It was not physically possible to fly to Warsaw and back. It was possible to fly to Warsaw and then on to Soviet held territory to refuel but the Soviets would not allow it. The prospect of dozens of British aircraft being seized by the Ruskies and therefore damaging allied action in the West could not be risked. There was a technicality as to why the POLISH forces in Britain did not take part in the Victory Parade in 1946 yet the Czechoslovaks DID. It is that the Czechoslovak Forces in Britain were CZECHOSLOVAK citizens and part of the Czechoslovak Army and Air Force. The Polish Forces in Britain were POLISH citizens and members of the POLISH Armed Forces. They regarded themselves as POLES and drempt of Victory Parades in Warsaw and Krakow. The Czechoslovak soldiers and airmen had returned to Czechoslovakia and then came back to Britain for the Victory Parade headed by General Alois Liška and Air Vice-Marshall Karel Janoušek. At that time, Czechoslovakia was the last bastion of democracy in Middle and Eastern Europe (Austria and Germany were still under Allied military occupation). The Prague Government sent their delegation to take part in the Parade. Polish soldiers and airmen in Britain were POLISH Citizens and nominally under the communist government in Warsaw. The communist government in Warsaw did not want THEIR soldiers and airmen taking part in a Victory Parade in London and were demanding the return of THEIR soldiers and airmen at the earliest opportunity. They wanted them back to charge them with all kinds of "offences" and many of them would have been murdered. The British Government dragged its' feet coming up with all kinds of excuses about available transport etc. In short, the BRITISH Government protected these men from their own POLISH Government. Although we will be eternally grateful for the help given by Czechoslovak and Polish soldiers and airmen, it is my contention that Britain may have lost the Battle of Britain without their help, but they did not come to Britain to help poor little Britain, they came to Britain to use us as an army base and an aircraft carrier and to use equipment that WE gave them to help them wreak revenge on THEIR enemy. The fact that their enemy was also our enemy was a happy coincidence. None of the Poles in Britain thought that the Polish people at home would allow a communist regime to take power. Up to 1945, those soldiers and airmen dreamed of returning to a free Poland. Up to 1947 they dreamed that things might change in Poland, a new "Miracle on the Vistula". It was not to be. Following negotiations between Polish officers and the British Government, it was agreed that the situation in Poland was hopeless so it was decided, IN 1947, that the Polish forces in Britain would be disbanded and they would be able to have British citizenship. Corporal Wojtek became an honourary British citizen and took up residence in Edinburgh Zoo. Go to " Princess Gardens Edinburgh Wojtek " and see Corporal Wojtek out on one of his daily strolls in the Scottish borders 1945-1947. Although what happened in Poland 1939-1945 was terrible and Poland suffered uniquely, the Poles were not the only ones to suffer. 273 members of the Czech bomber squadron 311 gave their lives, volunteers and heroes every one of them. Have you ever heard of the Czechoslovak bomber squadron 311 ? I tell you this, if I had had the choice of being a fighter pilot or a member of a bomber crew, I would go for fighter pilot every time. Did you know that, following the communist putsch in Czechoslovakia in 1948, Air Vice-Marshall Karel Janoušek was sentenced to death for, among other things, shaking hands with King George VI at a garden party. The sentence was commuted. More charges were bought and so on. He was released in 1960 aged 66 as part of a general amnesty for political prisoners. With all his property having been confiscated, and given a pension at one-third the normal rate, he survived by getting a low paid job as a book-keeper ... it is all the communists would allow. He died in poverty in 1971 aged nearly 78. Have you ever heard of Karel Janoušek ? Much of the dialogue in this video never took place. They were pieces of drama intended to make it look as if British officialdom and the British people threw them away. This is rubbish. You should look to the social and cultural nexus that have grown fat by combining together against the British people, chiselling and weedling their way to control our British media. Most of them were given refuge in Britain before the Second World War but feel little gratitude to the British people and have a greater allegiance to a bunch of invaders in the Middle East. To help them to feel more comfortable about their cowardice as a people before and during the war, they love to take a pop at Britain and the British people whenever they feel that they can get away with it. They even had to drag down Jan Zumbach bringing up his minor smuggling activities after the War ..... MY GOD !!!! As for Poles being unwelcome in Britain, many of them married British girls. An aunt of a friend of mine married an ex-Polish soldier. My maternal grandfather was murdered by the Nazis in November 1940. My Nan grieved for the remaining 31 years of her life. Even though I was born nearly 11 years after his death, I feel that I know him. My Nan talked of him often ..... and when she did, he was down the garden, he would be in shortly, he would want a cup of tea .... but he never did come in from the garden. I have a great-uncle who lies a thousand fathoms below the surface of the Atlantic. We have the U-boat number somewhere. One thing the Nazis were good at was record-keeping.
To tylko dosyć ciekawy zabieg żeby wybić się na yt. Polacy kochają kiedy mówi się o polskiej historii na zagranicznych kanałach i podbijają statystyki komentując i lajkując.
@@gacekp całe życie to tylko dość ciekawy zabieg, to nie YT wymyślił. inaczej siedział byś całe życie na dupie i nie byłoby sensu nawet palcem kiwnąć. Wszyscy chyba wiedzą ja działa YT i właśnie dlatego działa i tu zaglądasz, no nie?
My grandad was in the RAF during WW2 and he had tremendous respect for the Polish pilots, he said they just flew at the Germans directly scaring the cr*p out of the Germans 😄
@man1 wiped out in 3 days but inflicted heavy losses to the german airforce even though they were out numbered 10 to 1.. and seriously outclassed in technology. also invaded by the Soviet Union (who were like Nazis only with less compassion).
My father was a airframe fitter. Repairing damage to planes. He always spoke very highly of the Polish pilots. Not just the fighter pilots but bomber crews as well. Always ready to go. They did there country proud.
Bomber pilots are the most forgotten group of RAF pilots from WWII times by Churchill's political games and dilemmas. The bulldog feared responsibility for the bombing of Germany, despite the fact that it was the Germans who caused the greatest hecatomb in history
If they want the reall truth..they need to turn off tv first... I wondrering why they still forgot about weterans even on WW2 even's monuments or on public tv.. Look like the truth is to hard to tak it.. Like a Enigma .. they still don't know who solved the enigma code's Knowledge is the basement! Wiedza i historia jest podstwą istnienia narodów
I was raised by my polish mother and polish grandfather who survived the second war. Not Hitler's Germany or Stalin's communist Russia or getting betrayed by the allies never broke the Polish people because Poland only kneels to God. Rest in peace Grandpa you always be my hero a true son of Poland Paul Peter zaleski🇵🇱
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 polish soldiers fought on more front then any other military during the second war. They captured Monte cassino Americans Canadians British and the free French cannot do it. They invaded Berlin with the Russians. They did so much during the second war only to get betrayed bye Britain France and America. The Polish people fought for 50 years from 1939 till 1989.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 At Yalta conference, you didnt watch the video? All allies granted other countries which were occupied by Germans back their freedom ,except Czechoslovakia, Poland a few others (mostly Eastern Europe). Those countries didnt get anything from Marshal plan,they suffered under similiar monster as was Hitler, Stalin. Many of these pilots (and their families) and soldiers who fought for Britain and other allied countries was inprisoned and killed by comunist. On top of that those countries got a bill from Britain for patricipating in defense of Britain, so not only those people saved Britain from total destruction but they were forced to even pay to Britain for using their equipment and others stuff.
@@dariusissobel5470 All the countries liberated by the western allies were handed back to their own legal governments postwar. Germany was divided into "zones of occupation" between the 4 major allies, US, USSR, UK & France. The USSR did not grant democracy to ANY country that it liberated, but instead installed "puppet" governments who were effectively controlled by the USSR. At Yalta in Feb 1945 Stalin helped formulate and even signed an agreement one part of which was an assurance by the USSR to hold free elections in Poland after the war's end. Once the war in Europe had come to an end, the Potsdam conference was held in August 1945, and when questioned about when the Polish free elections would be taking place, STALIN BETRAYED Poland, by responding "What free elections?".... he effectively said to the western allies "The USSR "liberated" Poland, and the USSR will decide who rules it.... so what are you going to do about it?" Churchill had already ordered his chiefs of staff to prepare an outline plan he called "operation unthinkable" whose aim was to push the Soviet Union and the Red army back to its Sept 1939 borders. But The US being by far the largest power of the western allies, vetoed the plan. The likelihood is that to repel the red army's 12.4 million troops in Eastern Europe would potentially have involved atomic weapons used in central Europe, and hundreds of thousands (if not millions) more deaths.
Massive respect to the Polish Navy too, On the 4th and 5th of May 1942 ORP Błyskawica (Lightning) a Grom-Class Destroyer, fought off a sustained and ferocious attack on the towns of Cowes & East Cowes (Isle Of Wight) by 160 Luftwaffe Bombers, Laying smoke and firing until her guns ran so hot they had to be doused with water from the River Medina and extra ammunition had to be ferried over from Portsmouth, The people of Cowes celebrate and honour the gallant actions of the ship and crew each year with a series of events lasting for a week, ORP Błyskawica was preserved as a Museum ship in Gydina Poland, the funny thing is, Błyskawica was built by J. Samuel White ship builders in Cowes and was only there for an emergency refit, talk about good timing.
pozdrawiam z Polski! miło wiedzieć że są jeszcze osoby które interesują się historią Polski i Polaków. Nasi ojcowie i dziadkowie walczyli z Niemcami i Sowietami, nie tylko o wolność własnego kraju ale tez o wolność innych narodów mając nadzieję na lepszą przyszłość. To ważne żeby ludzie w Europie wiedzieli że my w Polsce znamy znaczenie słowa wolność. I co teraz w Europie Zachodniej, Niemczech też, mamy?! o ironio losu nazywają nas faszystami- nas których ojcowie i dziadkowie jako pierwsi przeciwstawili się zbrojnie Hitlerowi. Przykre to, widać pamięć jest ulotna. Dlatego między innymi dziękuję bardzo za Pani reakcję na ten film, żeby nie zapomnieć!
ona nabija wyswietlenia ma gdize spolska historie jak wylaczy youtuba ludize wydoroslejcie ona zbija japital na tym w postaci naiwnych polakow co pragna poklepania po lbie !
@@turtle-gf6wv They had twice as many kills as the best English squadron See also 40 to 1 (it was indeed 55 to 1. Wizna of 720 Poles fought against 40,000 Germans soldiers who had tanks and air force
Fun fact - several years ago the British National Party (a far right wing ,anti-immigration, racist, white power, political party) used wartime images to promote their national pride. One of the images was of a Spitfire. The delicious irony was that the image was of an RAF Spitfire with the markings of a Polish squadron!
@@drwhatson europians didnt look at white vs none white in same way the jews that hitler went after were white hitler had issues with some white ethnic groups and was fine with others
Nie tylko kobiety,wszystkich ,którzy świadczą przed światem o bohaterstwie polskich żołnierzy w czasie II wojny światowej.Jesteśmy jedynym państwem, które nie kolaborowało z hitlerowskim rządem.
The bravery of the Polish pilots that fought back against a common enemy will never be forgotton by the British people, at our side in an hour of great need. A family friend owned a house and land, requisitioned and onto which hutted accomodation was built to house Polish refuges and after the war, four years were given for the Polish to move out and the land be returned. He never forced the issue, allowing then to stay until the last had moved on to a new life, such was his appreciation.
Your family friend was a great man. The best of people too often are not acknowledged. Please thank his descndants, and thank you for speaking of his sacrifice.
Before they got to England, they were piloting older generation planes, much worse than German or English ones and still they had a fighting spirit. That is why they were so good. Equiped with comparable machines along with that spirit, they became unmatched. Of course, some lost their lives but they outclassed everyone. Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, head of RAF Fighter Command: "Had it not been for the magnificent material contributed by the Polish squadrons and their unsurpassed gallantry, I hesitate to say that the outcome of the Battle (of Britain) would have been the same." In reward they were not invited to Victory Parade in London.
Not forgetting that the highest scoring pilot in the "all conquering" Polish 303 squadron was CZECHOSLOVAKIAN pilot Josef František DFM who accounted for 17 of the squadron's confirmed 58.5 kills. Why are the Poles not so forthcoming about the excellence of Czech Pilots?
@John Ashtone Hello John. I have NO axe to grind with the wartime contributions of Polish, Czech, and ALL of the allied nations service personnel that contributed to the eventual toppling of nazi tyranny. My comment was really aimed at the modern day Polish youth (and also western lefty idiots) whose comment's online consistently attack the UK "for not mentioning the Polish contribution to our collective victory" (even though their individual national contribution has been commemorated at EVERY UK remembrance day parade I've ever attended). My point being that the modern day youth, DEMAND recognition for Poland (which has never been withheld in the first place) whilst simultaneously ignoring their own neighbouring country's contributions to their own "glory". All the best.
@John Ashtone 'I don't think the Poles have any particular animosity towards Czechs' The Polish government helped itself to a piece of Czechoslovakia after the Munich agreement.
The English authorities "allowed" the Poles to erect a monument dedicated to the pilots who died in the fight FOR ENGLAND . , using their own money collected among themselves . This can be briefly and precisely commented ---A PERFIDY OF ALBION .
@@wojtekwesolowski1950 Poland didn't fight FOR ENGLAND[sic]. Poland fought for the UK. And the only reason they fought for the UK was because it was the only way to get revenge on Germany, and give hope of regaining their homeland. I notice you fail to mention the assistance that the UK supplied to the Polish resistance, the only country at the time doing so. You also have to remember that times were different then. People in the UK didn't fully understand the difference between other nationalities in Europe and so distrust was a major issue. Add to that the political situation with the USSR and well.... it's a much more complicated situation than it looks.
The Polish pilots are far from forgotten, there are memorials to them all over the UK. As there are to 100s of American pilots that flew on missions from these islands. Some of these memorials may be small local one’s but people do not forget the sacrifice of these people.
Well if you say this..what about any WW2 END's event's ? why no one remind them names or one invite to celebrate end of the WW2 even once??? Truth is so difficult? Im not even talking about the pinch of truth oo ANY tv just To know You that the polish pilots are never have one invitatioins letter to celebrate the wining battle .. everyone celebrate end of WW2 And victory above germans but the Division pilots are never on any event, no remind words on tv when they talk stories HOW they won against nazi... Withot any words of pilots
It would appear that some seem to forget that the UK and the commonwealth forces went to war after Poland was invaded, and many thousands spilled their blood for that cause. Governments may forget but ordinary people in towns and villages here in the UK never have forgotten what the Polish airmen did.
@@eturfrey it maith be but did you se about then in tv or when whole world are celbrate end of WW2 or any important event..no never any simple words of the names of 303 306 309 Divisions pilots but any others are on monument on event's all are heroes but not the one who won the most important battle agaist germans
They are referenced in the Battle of Britain film. Both in the "Repeat Please" scene and, along with all of the other nations, in the Roll of Honour at the very end.
(UK) I love the Poles, they've had to endure such hardships and suffering but they are some of the friendliest and hardworking people I have ever known.
I have seen this documentary about SQN 303 so many times because it's a fantastic story. It's a great example of how different cultures can fight together. Of course the Polish should have been invited to the victory parade.Thank you for sharing and thanks for your comments
The Polish WERE invited to the victory parade... the matter is NOT as its "sold" by globalist MSM. I'll bore you with the details if you like, but I can only agree with the rest of your sentiments.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Reg. the Polish not being invited to the parade, I got it from a documentary on TH-cam. I am not interested in details, only sources. Don't know what globalist MSM is
@@poulmadsen7969 You're only "interested in sources" and yet have no idea what globalist MSM is? Aren't you interested in truth and fact? or just parroting the first thing on a subject you've read on YT?
I’m a Spitfire nut and passionate about the history around the Battle of Britain period. My parents used to live in Ickenham, literally 5 minutes from Northolt and the Polish War Memorial. As a young boy I would quite often walk into Uxbridge or Northolt aerodrome to stand and stare at the Spitfire gate guardians. Back in the early 80s these were genuine Spitfires. The Poles were highly motivated, as you can imagine. All such brave boys…and a special generation.
From David A. Wood: To Ms.Onuh. Hello, my name is David A. Wood. I am an American citizen from Kettering, Ohio, USA. I find your documentary very informative. Although I already knew about the existence of the RAF's 303 Squadron, which was mostly manned by exiled Polish Air Force pilots, and its pivotal role in the Battle of Britain, I was highly pleased to have learned something new about the squadron's role and experience during WW 2. To Ms. Onuh again, please do keep up the good work.
Thank you for your channel 😍 I'm Polish I was born in Poland, my son is 12 he is Polish but he was born and we live in England, tomorrow we are going to cemetery to light up candles on Polish pilotes groves. Your video it's fantastic history lesson for my child. Bless you 🌼
History is written by winners. That's why so many knows about Hitlers crimes, and so few knows about Stalins crimes. Komunists were same bastards as nazis
@@davidrowlands441 Same here. I've read and seen a lot about the Battle of Britain over decades, and the Polish (and come to that, any commonwealth and every other nation's involvement in the battle) has never been untold. I don't get why it's felt that it's been hidden for some reason. It hasn't. However, the failure to invite representatives of the Polish forces in exile to the 1946 post war victory parade was pretty shameful. Churchill himself protested this, but this was a complicated and politically charged time, whether that was any excuse.
I am an old man my mother and her first husband were in the air force throughout the war, he is buried in Berlin after being shot down. I never heard anything from anyone else but respect and gratitude for what the poles did, and lots of them stayed here after the war, there were Polish lads in my class at school and several Polish social clubs nearby.
Thank you for your honest memories John, Yes the Poles were, and still are, honoured by the UK, in 1947 by the "UK Polish Resettlement act" which placed the residency and citizenship rights of nearly 300,000 Polish ex service personnel AND their families on the UK statute books, and by the tributes paid to their valiant contribution at each year's Remembrance day parades across the country. It needs to be said to challenge the "Brit haters" posting their complete nonsense on these threads.
We will always remember ,Glory to the heroes!!!! I remember reading a book ' Squadron 303 'by Arkady Fiedler as a little boy when I was still living in Poland its great story about our heroes. Gloreeyah Onuh thank you for this video. When bad times will come , Poles will fight again for God and freedom. God bless
My very brave mother at the last part of the war was stationed at a hospital for wounded Polish pilots. Suffering from bad burns, But of course the RAF at this time was helped out by many volunteer pilots from all over the world. The man that wrote "To sir with love" was a volunteer RAF fighter pilot from Ghana. Many were from the Caribbean. My uncle was a pilot with the goose squadron Canadians. At the garage where I worked a member of staff was married to a polish spitfire fighter. None of you are forgotten.
When the Poles who fought alongside the British had their country stolen by the Soviets at wars end, they were ALL granted full UK citizenship, their courage, valour and resolve was repaid.
My grandmother friend was back from the battle with... a half of the head. I remember I was afraid of him as a child ,bcs he had literally a half of the head, but after a spoke with him and I realised he had just many injuries and life threatening surgery I stated to treat him like a hero, he was a pilot, but for me he was just a old man in my granny's kitchen.
Thank you for sharing this document, I hope it will reach more Brits these days while Ukraine brave men fight back russian aggresion. Polish soldiers were true heroes...
The Poles were experienced veterans of the 1939 campaign having shot down or damaged 285 German planes in the campaign, the pilots and troops who escaped Poland had revenge on their minds and were the most aggressive of the RAF. The Poles and Czechs had a powerful motivator in the fight to free their peoples.
I'm Polish living in UK for the past 12 years, I'm proud for who we are, hard working, honest, there's nothing we can't do, very strong ppl. Pozdrawiam Ciebie Gloreeyah! Swietny material!!
I grew up right next to RAF Northolt. It was a hurricane base and most of the pilots were polish. Every year on VE day all the spitfires, hurricanes and Lancaster bombers would fly into Northolt to prepare for the flyover London. Once you hear the sound of a Rolls Royce Merlin engine you never forget it. There's a big memorial called the polish war memorial. All the names of the killed pilots were on it. They were incredibly brave and skillful men. ✌️♥️🇬🇧
Please, could you tell the story of Gen. Maczek, a Second WW hero and commander who never lost a single battle (of the very many he fought) and ended up as a bartender in Edinburgh? Or General Sosabowski, who saved thousands of British, and other allied forces, soldiers' lives and for that achievement, he got accused of treason and bore the consequences of his superiors' mistakes?
Niewielu młodych ludzi na Zachodzie ma JAKĄKOLWIEK świadomość swojej WŁASNEJ historii, nie mówiąc już o historii innych narodów. Wszystko za sprawą lewicowych globalistycznych systemów edukacji, które obecnie istnieją w całym "pierwszym świecie".
Mój przyjaciel Simon, co roku organizuje 11 Listopada na cmentarzu wojskowym w Newark, uroczystości na cześć Polaków którzy zgineli za Wielką Brytanie. Ten człowiek zrobił więcej dla pamięci Polaków niż sami Polacy. Otrzymał nawet nagrodę z rąk Konsula Generalnego - "Świadek Historii".
Wielu ludzi starszego pokolenia pamieta o naszych w tej wojnie. Spotkalem jednego lokalsa tu w Oksfordzie i opowiedzial mi historie o tym jak jeden z naszych zbombardowal pole jego dziadka bo mial uszkodzone podwozie i nie chcial ladowac z bombami na pokladzie. Ogolnie to bardzo szanowal nasz narod i odpowiadal, ze jego najlepszy przyjaciel nazywal sie Joe Wisniewski.
Thanks for true. Thanks for remember heroes. Thanks for remember Polish part in WW2. Thanks from Polish guys👍 We never forget D303 and all heroes WW2. Good bless you from me and i hope everyone, let's love love true 👍🇵🇱🇬🇧
I watched the film, "The Battle of Britain", which was made in the sixties and mentioned the Polish contribution to the battle. So I knew something about the Poles and the Royal Air Force. What was remarkable about this film was not the film itself, but watching Gloria's beautiful face and her reaction to some of the scenes. Truly beautiful.
The famous film The Battle of Britain watched all over the world shows how 303 Squadron was initially treated how they where accepted and how their tactics where adopted. It’s not an untold Story. I grew up near Northolt Aerodrome where they where based, there is a War Memorial there and it’s called the Polish War Memorial. Many Poles stayed after the war. The Polish Pilots are well respected in the UK, there was more than one Squadron. Pilots where guided by air controllers and understanding of English was needed to get to where the Germans where and to get home safe or report. The British declared war on Germany when Poland was invaded as we had a pact with Poland. Poland had also started breaking early Enigma signals and shared its knowledge with the UK who ran with it at Bletchley Park and kept breaking all the developing complexity of the German codes and enciphering machinery, UK developed the Worlds first programmable electronic computer to help break the German codes. Bletchley Park 50 miles North of London can be visited in the UK to see all the exhibits. It is believed the info extracted shortened the war by two years. So maybe others outside the UK did not know or maybe some of the current generation but we knew. Respect to the Polish warriors whether they fought in the air on the ground or at sea. They where incorporated into all the arms of the armed services.
Well said Anthony. Fantastic to see someone else speaking facts. We need more on these threads to combat against the current globalist orchestrated flash mobs who brief against the UK for giving the two fingers to their EUSSR puppets.
In the eyes of a very nationalistic population the Poles had to have a whipping boy for their own shortcomings. As it intimates in this film the Poles were demolished in a matter of days why should we pay any attention to anything they have to offer? A reasonable stance given the information available. It is a nonsense to try to portray they were the only pilots in Britain with combat experience. They had a few days fighting in their locker - so did the Free French pilots, the Dutch pilots and the Czech pilots as did their RAF counterpart - who do we think was flying the RAF and French sorties above Dunkirk and in the weeks prior to the evacuation? We then get the accusation of Britain did nothing to help Poland. Not borne out by fact of course but that won't stop the nationilistic mindset trying to pass the parcel to anyone but their own leaders. Britain said we would declare war on Germany if they did not pull back - we did exactly that. Within a year we had fought and forced the Kriegsmarine back into their safe havens and they played a negligable part in the proceedings from then on. Britain did not have a large standing army - in fact it has always been thus our Army has always been pathetically small. We could not get there by land as we had to go through Germany to do so - how? Britain mobilized very quicklyl and managed to get a sizeable force in France within a few months. The RAF were not prepared but better prepared than the army was. Nevertheless we did what we said we would and it cost us dearly to do so, in fact, it broke the country both militarily, financially and politically. It was the end of the Empire for sure. So just what did Britain get by being as good as its word toward Poland? I hastily add I am pretty pro-Polish, holidayed there and enjoyed it, rub shoulders with Poles who have moved here and respect and like most of those I've met, admire them for their feisty attitude at a time Britain needed them to step up but Polish nationalistic BS is no less BS than all the other varieties out there just don't expect the Poles to ever see it that way though.
@@scaleyback217 Agree on that, whoever tries to make out Brits did not take part and employed only pilots escaped from countries or commonwealth countries is an uniformed idiot. The vast majority of the RAF pilots where Brits. If the Pilots where not already in the RAF, many had already learned to fly pre war due to Schemes set up by the Government that thought (looks like we need Pilots right now). So Britain had the right things in place and we had the English Channel to stop the Germany Army dead, the most powerful Navy in the World at that time and for the previous 100 years would have sunk any invasion fleet. The most integrated air Defense system in the World at that time won a battle and kept the skies clear. The aircraft the Hurricane and Spitfire equipped with the Merlin where there at the right time. Britain with its commonwealth allies and any escapees from occupied countries held at a critical time. If it had not Russia would have been invaded by the full German War machine earlier in Season? Russia was supplied munitions tanks guns from the UK and the States. Take that away as well and now Russia falls. Nowhere for America to mass troops in Europe and then the US has to fight Japan Germany Italy on its own??. Britain played a key part at a key time.
@@scaleyback217 I understand your subjective, very British, point of view on the WWII matters but it appears clear to me that you either do not know of or conveniently leave out many other aspects of the war and the political situation on the global level that show your country's role and deeds in less-than-favourable light. As it was the case, England entered the war not b/c it was really threatened by Hitler and communist SU but b/c the elite ruling your country was actually part of the global clique and cabal which had earlier on begot, funded, and clandestinely directed these inhuman monstrosities to achieve the global (not just British or else) domination out of ashes. The frivolous "pact" with Poland was a mere tool to make it happen and set off the world conflict. Poland was deliberately fooled only to be thrown under the bus immediately thereafter by her double-faced "allies" and that's an established fact that none can ignore. Have you ever heard of the Gomberg Map (please find out for yourself what it was and WHEN it was published)? Have you had any idea that, at that time, Stalin's primary henchman, Beria, head of the most murderous NKVD, was a British spy in fact with whom your wartime gov't held secret lines of contact? That fact certainly must have come in handy in sealing Gen. Sikorski's fate in his murder in Gibraltar in 1943 and why your country secretly worked together with the Soviet intelligence ring there. No wonder the files concerning that heinous act have been held secret in the UK since then and continue to do so for another 50 years. If your country's gov't were not complicit in this atrocity, then why not open them up for the public? Why did the British sequester the Polish gold valiantly saved by the Polish gov't-in-exile after the war on an excuse that it was to pay the costs of keeping and supplying the Polish army, airmen, and Navy who were fighting and spilling their precious blood in the defense of your wretched homeland? What if Poland decided not to fight and come to terms with Hitler who really wanted to have Poles on his side? Would you be happier if she did so? With his eastern borders secured, Hitler would've thrown all his might against France and the UK and the outcome of the war in Europe would be totally different. Arguably, even the Shoah would not necessarily happen on the Polish land if this scenario was played out. Not speaking of the millions of innocent lives of East and Central European countries that could be saved, including the people under the Soviet boot. Discounting also the vast material destruction and utter desolation that the war has wrought on these poor nations. There are many more issues not touched upon or plainly falsified in the official accounts of the WWII history that need to be brought to daylight lest we continue to stay in the dark and be manipulated into another conflict, which practice has for very long been the cornerstone of the British "balance of powers" politics, first on the European, now on a global scene. The policy that, in a nutshell, puts other nations head-on on a collision course, provokes conflicts between them, and then makes them fight, deplete their resources (guess who's profitting then) and bleed to the last one. We know your country's motto: "England has no eternal friends or enemies but eternal interests." What looks perhaps legit in your perception is, unfortunately, one of the main causes of the great evil that the world has suffered from for centuries now. Not so glorious a past to be proud of, indeed. Today your country is trying to play this old mean trick on the Central and East Europeans again by luring us into a major conflict with Russia by creating a Ukraine-Poland-UK (Anglia) axis (abbreviated as the UPA, which sounds very ominous for historical reasons, and comes as a slap and spit on the Polish faces at the same time) against the Russian Federation. Are the Brtish really that stupid to think of us as ignorant and oblivious of their country's past heavy misdeeds and hostile attitude towards our countries that we could fall into the same trap again? Think about it if you will.
What a fantastic channel you have..big respect to you.. the polish and the brits had a very good brotherly relationship in ww2..many poles fought in british RAF squadrons, they enlisted in the british army and manned the Royal Navy ships..many married british women and stayed on after the war..still to this day the polish have a very positive and important role in the uk..
@@Milo51537 Most people in most countries would feel the same Karol, I am no hater of Poland, and indeed I thank them for their contribution to the allied war effort during WW2, but ALL peoples have a natural reaction to sudden influxes of strangers into their midst, and Poles would be no different.
It's hardly unknown. For one thing the Polish squadron was prominent in The Battle of Britain feature film of 1969. It was the most popular film of the year and is frequently shown on TV. Most of the many squadrons of the RAF at the time never get a specific mention at all. The Polish Squadron does because it was out of the ordinary.
One of these pilots lived and lived in my town in Poland. His daughter taught me English in high school 35 years ago. At first they lived in England, only later did they return to Poland. The British demanded from Poland remuneration for the stay of Polish Soldiers in England. They commandeered Polish gold that had been transported there just before the war.
@@jacekrybka7165 Silly Jacek. The Poles who were kindly given refuge in the UK in 1940 were SAVED by that act from instead ending up dead in a ditch in a remote Byelorussian forest with a soviet bullet in the back of their heads, or as a pile of dust on the floor of a nazi death camp crematorium. Another clueless commenter who believes "Poles were fighting for Britain".. Were the Poles who were killed fighting nazis in North Africa "fighting for Egypt, Libya & Tunisia"? Were the Poles who were killed fighting nazis at Monte Cassino "fighting for Italy"? Were the Poles who were killed fighting nazis during operation Market Garden "fighting for the Netherlands"? No, they were fighting to topple the nazis, the torturers of THEIR home country, not OURS. In the same way that Poland didn't contribute towards the fight in the far east against the militarism of the Japanese... because the Japs weren't the ones murdering the Polish population. Modern day Poles would do well to remember the collective 1.1 million British and French lives that were sacrificed in the war to remove nazi tyranny from POLISH soil.
Droga Pani! Skuteczność polskich pilotów myśliwskich nie polegała tylko na ich odwadze i brawurze, ale na morderczej selekcji i znakomitym, długotrwałym wyszkoleniu w szkole pilotów w Dęblinie. Tam się dostawał 1 kandydat na 100, a w trakcie szkolenia połowa odpadała. Pilotami polskich sił zbrojnych zostawała absolutna elita.
From the Battle of Britain Archive : Pilots / Aircrew who served in the Battle of Britain (those killed in brackets). UK 2,424 (452), Poland 141 (29), New Zealand 103 (14), Canada 90 (20), Czechoslavakia 86 (8), Belgium 29 (6), Australia 21 (14), France 13 (0), Ireland 9 (0), USA 7 (1), Southern Rhodesia 2 (0), Jamaica 1 (0), Palestine 1 (0). Brave men every one, wherever they came from !
SUPER SIĘ OGLĄSA TAK PIĘKNĄ KOBIETE KYURA POZA URODĄ POSIADA JESZCZE SWOJĄ OSOBOWOSC CUD KOBIETA PIĘKNA MĄDRA RZADKOSC W DZISIEJSZYCH CZASACH POZDRAWIAM Z POLSKI
Yes... I end up doing the same ! I think the reason for this is the Poles were kept in the dark by the communists about their Countrymens achievements whilst in the service of the UK/ Allied cause... They might have gleemed further ideas of nationhood.👍
I'm Polish and it is quite strange you have to educate Polish people about the battle of Britain as this 303 squadron and Polish fighters are one of the top 10 most famous things ppl read about in Poland about ww2. Your friends, with whole respect, do not read much...
Jan Zumbach...My God he was awsome! There's a book about his adventures after the war "Ostatnia walka". I don't know if there's an english translation. Hollywood should make a film about him.
Hollywood spent decades making Polish jokes which certainly benefitted those who hated Poles and government comfortable with a Poland handed over to and enslaved by the USSR.
You know the movie King Kong? It was written by Marian C Cooper. Before his career in the movie industry, he was a volunteer fighter pilot and one of the founders of the Polish Airforce. He actually visited the 303 during the war from America.
Dziękuję,że mówisz o wkładzie polskich lotników i oczywiście w ogóle Polaków w obronę Anglii w czasie II wojny światowej.Polska zachowała się podczas II wojny światowej godnie,nie było kolaboracji rządu z Niemcami,Polacy walczyli o wolność na wszystkich frontach II wojny światowej.Niestety Anglia i USA oddały nas pod okupację ZSRR i nie odzyskaliśmy jej do dzisiaj,bo skutki tej okupacji doprowadziły do niewoli gospodarczej od banków centralnych i finansjery Unii Europejskiej.Świat nie jest sprawiedliwy dla bohaterów.To Niemcy wygrały II wojnę światową.
W heraldyce biel jest symbolem czystości, lojalności, pokory i szlachetności. Czerwień oznacza miłość, dzielność, żarliwość i poświęcenie. Takie znaczenie mają kolory polskiej flagi. Tacy właśnie jesteśmy , My Polacy , Chrześcijanie, klękamy tylko przed Bogiem, gotowi nawet do poświęceń własnego życia, żeby drugie życie ratować. 💪❤✌️ 🇵🇱🤝🇬🇧
Polacy obronili Brytyjczyków - a oni kazali im za to płacić 107 650 000 funtów. Wszystko zostało pokryte z rezerw polskiego złota zdeponowanego w Kanadzie.
There was also a lot of Polish Army units based in the UK, in my home town there was a Polish Anti Aircraft unit as well as 2 Army Units and nearby there were Polish Tank Regiments, Some stayed and I know a few of their sons and daughters.
Fantastic take on this in the movie, The Battle of Britain. The commander orders the pilots back to base rather than engage in the battle while training. Each pilot peels off saying “Repeat, please” to his orders not to engage until he was left all alone lol
Churchill said it best, "Never have so many owed so much to so few" I think it was 500-600 pilots vs 2000 German pilots. Kind of like the battle of Agincourt in 1415.
Thank you for posting this ❤️. I might have been one to comment on Battle of Britain. I was always told to remember the Polish (but other nations including India) that saved Britain. What I find a tragedy is how many died on all sides and for what? One totalitarian government to be replaced by another, so sad.
@@GloreeyahOnuh Thank you again, I really appreciate that you took the time - Britain did many terrible things (I'm half Irish, don't know if you've reacted to the Irish potato famine) but it also did good things too including fighting the Nazis with the help from many nations. Thanks again ❤️🇮🇪🏴
@@GloreeyahOnuh th-cam.com/video/fpMAy6pfHbM/w-d-xo.html This gives an outline of the "Irish Potato Famine" - over 150 years later and the population of Ireland still has not recovered. I'm half Irish half English, so my emotions are mixed and confused on this - made more torn apart by the recent "Troubles" (started ~1969 - half my life it was too dangerous for me to visit my Irish family). It will give you some idea of why the island of Ireland is separated in two (details of 1916 rising, or before that Oliver Cromwell, are way too complicated). With love ❤️🏴🇮🇪.
A total of eighteen Polish Squadrons served with the RAF. Seven Day Fighter Squadrons, two Night Fighter Squadrons, two Reconnaissance Squadrons, an Artillery Observation Squadron, two Special Squadrons, and Four Bomb Squadrons.
Although the majority of these had not been created or were not active during the battle of Britain.... While Britain continues to pay tribute to the Polish contribution to the allied cause during WW2, for accuracy's sake you could easily overstate the Polish forces that actually took part in the battle of Britain if you're not careful.
I remember in the part of England where I lived, Polish or even ex-German POWs were all treated kindly after the war, had jobs and integrated well into British society.
Only come across this one just now. Like many people I was extremely puzzled by all the 'untold story' & 'we must remember them' comments? My father was already an RAF officer when the war started (and long after it ended) so I was brought up hearing all the stories first-hand: and the admiration the RAF had/has for all those who came over and joined up was always part of those stories, in which the Poles in the RAF were legendary. My son has married a wonderful Polish girl and I know his grandfather would be very proud. But this also made me remember that, when I was a kid, all the big-budget 'death & glory' movies about the war (as they were nicknamed) came out of America. It was not unusual at that time in theatres for British & Allied ex-servicemen to loudly protest at the slant put on these and get up en-masse and leave the theatre in anger - my own father included. Now most people, after all this time, will only know about WWII from movies; and most of those are American...so the Battle of Britain - which was fought & won before the USA entered the war - doesn't usually feature. To the Brits it was the most important theatre of WWII battles; we lost homes, towns, thousands of civilians, our cities were ruined. It lives on in the national consciousness - especially as, even to-day the scars of WWII are all around us. A constant reminder of the part the RAF...comprising both men & women of many other countries...played. So perhaps because few people have seen movies about it, they assume it's because no-one remembers? There were streams of British movies made about it - some of which are on TH-cam. But as they were more subdued than Hollywood all-action war movies, perhaps it's those old black & white films which have been 'lost': not the history of the Allies in that war, I think?
A little known episode from the history of 303 Squadron and other Polish air squadrons in the Normandy Landing. In 1944, Polish fighter squadrons participated in the preparation of the invasion by performing tasks together with the allied aviation. 11 Polish squadrons participated in the operation, including 8 fighter and 3 bomber squadrons. The 131 Fighter Wing - commander Major Stefan Janus (squadrons: 302, 308 and 317) and the 305th bomber squadron subordinated to British forces took part directly. The remaining fighter squadrons and the 300 bomber squadron also participated in the initial phase. The main task of aviation was air cover and escort of bombers, fire support of land forces and reconnaissance. Already on the first day of the operation, one of the Polish wings shot down the largest number of aircraft, and by June 25, 38 aircraft. The wing planes performed four airliners a day, escorting the bombers. Squadron 303 with RAF planes covered the left wing of the invasion fleet and landing troops. Squadron 307 (night bombers) fought submarines. Bomber squadrons 300, 304 and 305 fought from day one. Squadron 305 destroyed German fuel supplies (about 13 million liters) near Nancy. The press wrote that "with this act, the Poles won the battle for France". In early August, the 131st Wing was deployed to France at the airport near Caen and operated in the direction of the troops' attack. 133 Fighter Wing (commander Major Stanisław Skalski) and other squadrons operated from English airfields against V-1 missiles and supporting the offensive. From June 12, 1944, the Germans began shelling England with V-1 missiles, and by July 29, they had fired about 2,000 of them. From July 9, three Polish aviation squadrons were included in the fight against the V-1. The Poles shot down 190 V-1 missiles. Polish aircraft, supporting the landing in France, performed 8,000 sorties.
To bardzo ciekawe , szczerze nie znałem tej historii, a czy to prawda ,że przed wojną Urbanowicz na pokazach lotniczych złapał na szpiegowaniu w hangarze Willy’ego Messerschmitta późniejszego kontruktora samolotów i mu obił mordę?
@@greg3597 To prawda . Bo nawet na Polskiej Wikipedii o tym piszą . Podobno nawet wycelował w niego z pistoletu . Został za to przeniesiony do szkolenia pilotów w Dęblinie .
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Thank You Gloreeya for liking my Post. Thank You for Acknowledging my Polish People. God Bless You.🙏
@@kellymikoajtucinski3476God bless you too❤️
@@GloreeyahOnuh Amen.🙏😊
@@GloreeyahOnuh Hope to meet You Someday. 💐😊
Thank you so much for this Gloreeyah - one of the pilots interviewed here Kornicki (pronounced Kornitski) was a good friend of my father after the war (my father was a bomber Navigator). He was a lovely man and had two very talented sons. My father only spoke a few words of English when he arrived, but was a great linguist, but he never lost his accent.
Frantisek was a Czech who had joined the Poles and preferred to fly with the Poles rather than the Czech figure squadrons, because they were less bureaucratic. An amazing pilot who could not survive, but shot down many Germans before he passed.
God bless you. xx
Mój dziadek służąc w 1samodzielnej brygadzie skoczków spadochronowych pod dowództwem generała Sosabowskiego brał udział w operacji Market Garden. Skakał pod Arnhem. Przeżył jako jeden z nielicznych. Montgomery zrobił z nich kozłów ofiarnych, a mojego dziadka po powrocie do ojczyzny czekała katownia UB...
Szacunek dla Pani wielki za pamięć o naszych bohaterach.
\szacun dla twojego dziadka! mój walczył u Maczka i też przeżył! Pozdro!
moj dziadek podobnie,tylko jak byla ta parada zwyciestwa to stal w tlumie i plakal,zawsze mi o tym opowiadal zebym nie zapomnial,pozdro z uk
@@KWIDZYNIAK1000 Mój miał też do końca życia żal do Brytyjczyków za to jak potraktowali Sosabowskiego i Polskiego żołnierza. W latach 90 dziadek otrzymał odznaczenie od królowej Holandii. Do tego była długa droga aby odznaczyć Polaków bo sprzeciwiali się Brytyjczycy naciskając na ministerstwo obrony Holandii
@@kihot6201 Dla Twojego również... Trochę przeszli
Mój służył jako radio operator na brytyjskich tankowcach na które ciągle polowały u-boty. Przeżył, ale nabawił się reumatyzmu i zmarł jak miałem 2 lata nie dożywając nawet 70 lat.
God bless Poland from an Englishman.
🙏🙏🙏🇬🇧🇵🇱🇺🇦🇺🇸
And a Kiwi called Wanda.
Thank You vm :)
God bless Britain. From Polish man who lives here 2 decades.
The Poles gave us the first Enigma machine and german codes.
They fought in the battle of Britain and at Monte Cassino and almost everywhere by land sea and air.
They fought and walked with Jewish civilians all the way through Europe and Persia to North Africa. It was also a Free Polish officer that invented and gave the Allies the first mine detectors.
🇬🇧 303👍🏼
Thank you. Monte Cassino + Narvik, Tobruk, Falaise....
Nie ma co wspominać Monte Casino bo to katastrofa była, a Anders powinien zostać osądzony za to że wysłał żołnierzy na pewną śmierć
My son's Great Great granfather was a private in Anders's army... Alongside with Wojtek... The Bear
@@prometeusz1000 no widzisz a dzieki temu zwycieżyli i przeszli do historii świata.
@@AtonPL Noo zajebiste osiągnięcie, a tak naprawdę co zwyciężyli jedną bitwę ?! Wojnę przegraliśmy a to się liczy
My grandfather was part of the English groundcrew for 309 Squadron of Polish volunteers. To the end of his life, he always praised the courage of the Polish air crews. They knew that any aeroplane brought home could be repaired or at least used for parts, so they would fly in with their aircraft on fire, to avoid it being lost. Then, they just got into another one and went back out.
He was furious that they were not honoured in the victory parades. Our "ally" Russia had just invaded Poland, so it was considered a bad idea to praise the courage of its people. Grandad always said we could not have won without them. When he left the squadron, his Polish friends gave him a beautiful photo album, now in the possession of my father. It's filled with photos of the aeroplanes he worked on and the pilots, navigators, gunners and groundcrew he worked with.
Long after he died, I happened to find someone online who was looking for information about his father's service as a Polish airman in Britain. He was also in 309 Squadron and one of the group photos showed him. I was so happy to be able to send him a copy of the photo and the list of names from it. He had never seen a picture of his father in uniform It's a tiny thing to give back to men who gave so much to my country and to the world, but at least I could give his son that and I also told him what my grandfather said about the bravest men he ever knew.
Thank you so much for this and your and your grandfather's kindness to my father's comrades in arms - it is good to know how many British people loved the Poles. My father was a navigator in 300 Squadron flying Wellingtons. What aircraft were 309 flying when your father was there?
Thank you for this sincere and touching testimony of the true history of our peoples! As a Pole, I moved. You are a wonderful man! Only happy days in your life!
@@arturjj8761 Thank you Artur and may your life too be happy. We Poles can be proud of the national sacrifice our people have made in the cause of freedom. Walking through the reconstructed Old Town of Warsaw and the memorials to the Uprising bears testimony to this.
GOD I LOVE YOU SIR . AND WILL NEVER FORGET WHAT THE POLES CONTRIBUTED. WE WERE LET DOWN BY THE YANKS . WOULD HAVE MEANT ANOTHER WAR ..IM ASHAMED OF NOT LETTING THE POLES , MARCH , I WORKED WITH POLES , ALWAYS RESPECTED.
@@maxmoore3472 Thank you Sir. The most important thing for my father was Britain was the "Last Chance Island" and gave the Poles who get here the chance and the equipment too fight back. That was more than any other nation did, so he was very grateful to Britain and had a Union Jack flag on his coffin and was buried in the Polish Air Force cemetery in Newark.
I am part Polish, And Very proud of my Polish Heritage . This movie is just one example of The fighting spirit, bravery, and courage of The Polish People. The Polish Motto is, " It is better to die fighting, than to die on Your Knees". 🇵🇱
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Your national pride is most admirable....keep that flame burning bright. P.S I think the saying is "It is better to die fighting on your feet, than live on your knees".
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Thank You. Yes, there are a couple different ways that it is worded. But, nonetheless they have the meaning, and the point is Strongly conveyed, ' It is better to die fighting, than on Your knees'. 🇵🇱
Przykre,że Anglia nas sprzedała i po II wojnie światowej spod okupacji
niemieckiej przeszliśmy pod okupację sowiecką.Teraz mamy okupację
banksterską,wciąż w Polsce rządzą ludzie wykreowani politycznie w
czasie PRL,nadal nie mamy wolności.
@@vlodeklukasz1065 Przykre, że nasi politycy nie potrafili przekalkulować ryzyka. Teraz jest to samo. W polityce międzynarodowej nie ma takiego pojęcia jak wdzięczność. Tylko kalkulacja. A skoro tak, to musimy się nauczyć na tym przykładzie, żeby NIGDY WIĘCEJ nie być naiwnymi. Nie zmienia to faktu, że zachowaliśmy się jak trzeba i uratowaliśmy HONOR. Szkoda, że tak wielkim kosztem.
From the heart of Scandinavia: Poland is born of honor!
Bóg Honor Ojczyzna
Bardzo Ci dziękuję
I am a 70 year old Englishman, from childhood I have known many Polish people who settled in the UK after the war and was never aware of any animosity shown towards them. Many became builders or engineers and integrated into the British way of life. Many towns had Polish clubs where Poles could gather to meet old friends and forge new relationships. I've never heard of any trouble around these clubs and many still thrive to this day. I knew the Polish Airforce had been in the UK during the war, but was unaware of the impact they made until seeing this film. Thank you for bringing it to my attention and thank you to those Polish airmen and their families for their valiant efforts.
TO watch this disgraceful, agenda laden channel 4 program is an insult to the British... You're absolutely bang on with everything you say Ivan.... Well said.
There are many diaries that mention this. Even the famous Polish bear Wojtek from the 2nd Corps had to go into captivity to the ZOO :D
Yes learn history from tv... and you be another colony soon...(sharia law in birmigham or bradford..is tha remind you anything???
Look for enemies somhere else..we hepl you that's unbetalblle fact's
Other facts there was not polish gov..
But
Now start from begining...
there are a diary notes,
weterans and them families who know all truth about it and have all documents
Why there are still forgoted? Even on WW2 Event's and reminders?
Or monuments??? About WW2
Sorry mate but,
information from polish weterans
It might be a good idea IF You really want to know anything abou it
It is not to difficult some weterans are stilk alive and them falilies have ALl information about what was happen before battle and after ..and how honoured and recpected was the peole who fight for your contry at those times
Then we start talk ok?
UP Date the truth information first not from any tv or gov from real people
KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH ARE ESSENTIAL
@@konradadamczyk5755 sorry they have no idea abou it ,the got info from tv..so how they want to know the real truth?
Dairys Weterans and famillies albums are stil Avalliable for any one who REALLY want to KNOW the TRUTH about history even about them history..
So sad!
No argumnets they stsrt about communism..well they know history about communism better them polish
We survue germans communism and many other tyrany an they will tolk about all getting the knowledge from tv..
oh sorry give me a break
@@xxxpostronieprawdy6461 I think you'll find the truth is, we declared war on Germany when they invaded Poland. Of course many Poles escaped and joined the allied forces wherever they could, but they cannot be credited with saving Britain, although they did make a valuable contribution to the fight, as did very many other countries. Respect to all who were, and are, prepared to give up their lives in the pursuit of freedom.
In America we always made Poles the butte of every joke. None of us had anything against the Poles. We'd never met one. We just needed a whipping boy. After learning their history in World War II I can see how stupid that was of us. The Poles without exception fought brilliantly in World War II. They deserve better.
Haha who knew that u make jokes about us, we do the same thing in Poland, we joke about u Americans so 1:1 :D
Not always, only after mass immigration of Germans.
Actually we Poles joke about Americans...
You might have more material than many of us like to think.
Kosciuszko and Puławski also Polish
Frantisek Czech w dywizjonie polskim 303 był ewenementem. Niesamowity, godny naśladowania i dusza niesamowita. Byłeś i jesteś Wielki Czechu.
Walczę sam...🔥🔥🔥
nie zapominac prosze że czuł sie Polakiem, ale fakt był Czechem, słowiański lud
@@leszekstefaniak6377 Czesi zawsze nas traktowali prześmiewczo
@@PabloPopova akurat ten miał tak wielki żal do Czechów o poddanie się bez walki, że wybrał walkę u boku Polaków, mowił, że jest Polakiem. Był prawdziwym wojownikiem walczącym o wolność.
@@PabloPopova I co z tego? Fakty mówią zawsze za siebie.
I am so ashamed the Poles were treated this way. I was born in 1944. I would like to pay my respect.
Don't be ashamed Kate, this program is complete channel 4 Brit hating bullshit. Do some widely sourced reading and see that the Poles were well treated by the British people in the terrible circumstances that existed after WW2.
No need to be ashamed. British people are not to be blamed but your government, cooperating very closely with Stalin.
I am ashamed that the Brits still cannot pronounce Polish names correctly.
@@krzysztofj.7884 Many Poles also can't pronounce some English names properly.
@@mecx7322 No. All of the Poles can prounce English names properly.
I came across your video today…my grand uncle was a founder and first commander of 303 squadron. His name was Zdzisław Krasnodębski alias “King”. After he was shoot and severely burned he just tech on the ground and Urbanowicz, his friend, became a commander. They have been brave and betrayed after war. My uncle died in Toronto where was a cab driver…him and his wife’s ashes were transferred to Warsaw cemetery Powązki few years ago.
You really must stop this depressive nonsense about "being betrayed". They were NOT betrayed at all. Britain was on its' knees in 1945. There was nothing that the British Government could do to influence events in Poland. It was the POLISH Communist Party and their running dogs who took control in Warsaw supported by the Soviets in January 1945. British Forces .... and Polish Forces in the West at this time, were fighting towards Germany in Belgium, Eastern France, Italy, and Greece. The plan to assist the Warsaw Uprising was developed at lightning speed and ready to go but was prevented by the Soviets. It was not physically possible to fly to Warsaw and back. It was possible to fly to Warsaw and then on to Soviet held territory to refuel but the Soviets would not allow it. The prospect of dozens of British aircraft being seized by the Ruskies and therefore damaging allied action in the West could not be risked.
There was a technicality as to why the POLISH forces in Britain did not take part in the Victory Parade in 1946 yet the Czechoslovaks DID. It is that the Czechoslovak Forces in Britain were CZECHOSLOVAK citizens and part of the Czechoslovak Army and Air Force. The Polish Forces in Britain were POLISH citizens and members of the POLISH Armed Forces. They regarded themselves as POLES and drempt of Victory Parades in Warsaw and Krakow. The Czechoslovak soldiers and airmen had returned to Czechoslovakia and then came back to Britain for the Victory Parade headed by General Alois Liška and Air Vice-Marshall Karel Janoušek. At that time, Czechoslovakia was the last bastion of democracy in Middle and Eastern Europe (Austria and Germany were still under Allied military occupation). The Prague Government sent their delegation to take part in the Parade.
Polish soldiers and airmen in Britain were POLISH Citizens and nominally under the communist government in Warsaw. The communist government in Warsaw did not want THEIR soldiers and airmen taking part in a Victory Parade in London and were demanding the return of THEIR soldiers and airmen at the earliest opportunity. They wanted them back to charge them with all kinds of "offences" and many of them would have been murdered. The British Government dragged its' feet coming up with all kinds of excuses about available transport etc. In short, the BRITISH Government protected these men from their own POLISH Government.
Although we will be eternally grateful for the help given by Czechoslovak and Polish soldiers and airmen, it is my contention that Britain may have lost the Battle of Britain without their help, but they did not come to Britain to help poor little Britain, they came to Britain to use us as an army base and an aircraft carrier and to use equipment that WE gave them to help them wreak revenge on THEIR enemy. The fact that their enemy was also our enemy was a happy coincidence. None of the Poles in Britain thought that the Polish people at home would allow a communist regime to take power. Up to 1945, those soldiers and airmen dreamed of returning to a free Poland. Up to 1947 they dreamed that things might change in Poland, a new "Miracle on the Vistula". It was not to be. Following negotiations between Polish officers and the British Government, it was agreed that the situation in Poland was hopeless so it was decided, IN 1947, that the Polish forces in Britain would be disbanded and they would be able to have British citizenship. Corporal Wojtek became an honourary British citizen and took up residence in Edinburgh Zoo. Go to " Princess Gardens Edinburgh Wojtek " and see Corporal Wojtek out on one of his daily strolls in the Scottish borders 1945-1947.
Although what happened in Poland 1939-1945 was terrible and Poland suffered uniquely, the Poles were not the only ones to suffer. 273 members of the Czech bomber squadron 311 gave their lives, volunteers and heroes every one of them. Have you ever heard of the Czechoslovak bomber squadron 311 ? I tell you this, if I had had the choice of being a fighter pilot or a member of a bomber crew, I would go for fighter pilot every time. Did you know that, following the communist putsch in Czechoslovakia in 1948, Air Vice-Marshall Karel Janoušek was sentenced to death for, among other things, shaking hands with King George VI at a garden party. The sentence was commuted. More charges were bought and so on. He was released in 1960 aged 66 as part of a general amnesty for political prisoners. With all his property having been confiscated, and given a pension at one-third the normal rate, he survived by getting a low paid job as a book-keeper ... it is all the communists would allow. He died in poverty in 1971 aged nearly 78. Have you ever heard of Karel Janoušek ?
Much of the dialogue in this video never took place. They were pieces of drama intended to make it look as if British officialdom and the British people threw them away. This is rubbish. You should look to the social and cultural nexus that have grown fat by combining together against the British people, chiselling and weedling their way to control our British media. Most of them were given refuge in Britain before the Second World War but feel little gratitude to the British people and have a greater allegiance to a bunch of invaders in the Middle East. To help them to feel more comfortable about their cowardice as a people before and during the war, they love to take a pop at Britain and the British people whenever they feel that they can get away with it. They even had to drag down Jan Zumbach bringing up his minor smuggling activities after the War ..... MY GOD !!!!
As for Poles being unwelcome in Britain, many of them married British girls. An aunt of a friend of mine married an ex-Polish soldier.
My maternal grandfather was murdered by the Nazis in November 1940. My Nan grieved for the remaining 31 years of her life. Even though I was born nearly 11 years after his death, I feel that I know him. My Nan talked of him often ..... and when she did, he was down the garden, he would be in shortly, he would want a cup of tea .... but he never did come in from the garden. I have a great-uncle who lies a thousand fathoms below the surface of the Atlantic. We have the U-boat number somewhere. One thing the Nazis were good at was record-keeping.
Szacunek 🖐️
Yes. So brave, and so betrayed.
CZEŚĆ I CHWAŁA BOHATEROM 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
Jestem w szoku, że zainteresowałaś się historią polskich pilotów. Dziękuję za nich i za siebie. Jesteś Wielka.
To tylko dosyć ciekawy zabieg żeby wybić się na yt. Polacy kochają kiedy mówi się o polskiej historii na zagranicznych kanałach i podbijają statystyki komentując i lajkując.
@@gacekp całe życie to tylko dość ciekawy zabieg, to nie YT wymyślił. inaczej siedział byś całe życie na dupie i nie byłoby sensu nawet palcem kiwnąć. Wszyscy chyba wiedzą ja działa YT i właśnie dlatego działa i tu zaglądasz, no nie?
Tylko ona nic nie powiedziała XDDDDD
@@antli00n ona się "zainteresowała"
@@krzysztofprzybysz4848 Zainteresowała się filmikiem dla wyświetleń - owszem to prawda xD
My grandad was in the RAF during WW2 and he had tremendous respect for the Polish pilots, he said they just flew at the Germans directly scaring the cr*p out of the Germans 😄
@man1 bit salty you are!! yoda today ...lol
@man1 are you Russian?
@man1 Who cares man, we when through so much shit let us have a win.
mine was in the Uprising.
@man1 wiped out in 3 days but inflicted heavy losses to the german airforce even though they were out numbered 10 to 1.. and seriously outclassed in technology.
also invaded by the Soviet Union (who were like Nazis only with less compassion).
My father was a airframe fitter. Repairing damage to planes. He always spoke very highly of the Polish pilots. Not just the fighter pilots but bomber crews as well. Always ready to go. They did there country proud.
Bomber pilots are the most forgotten group of RAF pilots from WWII times by Churchill's political games and dilemmas. The bulldog feared responsibility for the bombing of Germany, despite the fact that it was the Germans who caused the greatest hecatomb in history
@@konradadamczyk5755 I guess for him,it was lowering to the level of the Germans..
@@davidhoward2487 they sowed the wind and reaped the storm
If they want the reall truth..they need to turn off tv first... I wondrering why they still forgot about weterans even on WW2 even's monuments or on public tv..
Look like the truth is to hard to tak it..
Like a Enigma .. they still don't know who solved the enigma code's
Knowledge is the basement!
Wiedza i historia jest podstwą istnienia narodów
My father was in the ww2 RAF and had great respect for the Polish pilots.
I am a combat veteran. This thr first but not my last time here . You can not possibly know the good you have just done. God bless you for this
Love my Polish brothers so much respect some of the finest people I have ever meet and have so many traditional values Britain has lost
I was raised by my polish mother and polish grandfather who survived the second war.
Not Hitler's Germany or Stalin's communist Russia or getting betrayed by the allies never broke the Polish people because Poland only kneels to God.
Rest in peace Grandpa you always be my hero a true son of Poland Paul Peter zaleski🇵🇱
Where did the Allies betray you?
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 polish soldiers fought on more front then any other military during the second war. They captured Monte cassino Americans Canadians British and the free French cannot do it. They invaded Berlin with the Russians. They did so much during the second war only to get betrayed bye Britain France and America. The Polish people fought for 50 years from 1939 till 1989.
@@marcoceccarelli6415 You didn't answer my question, When did they get Betrayed?
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 At Yalta conference, you didnt watch the video? All allies granted other countries which were occupied by Germans back their freedom ,except Czechoslovakia, Poland a few others (mostly Eastern Europe). Those countries didnt get anything from Marshal plan,they suffered under similiar monster as was Hitler, Stalin. Many of these pilots (and their families) and soldiers who fought for Britain and other allied countries was inprisoned and killed by comunist. On top of that those countries got a bill from Britain for patricipating in defense of Britain, so not only those people saved Britain from total destruction but they were forced to even pay to Britain for using their equipment and others stuff.
@@dariusissobel5470 All the countries liberated by the western allies were handed back to their own legal governments postwar. Germany was divided into "zones of occupation" between the 4 major allies, US, USSR, UK & France.
The USSR did not grant democracy to ANY country that it liberated, but instead installed "puppet" governments who were effectively controlled by the USSR. At Yalta in Feb 1945 Stalin helped formulate and even signed an agreement one part of which was an assurance by the USSR to hold free elections in Poland after the war's end. Once the war in Europe had come to an end, the Potsdam conference was held in August 1945, and when questioned about when the Polish free elections would be taking place, STALIN BETRAYED Poland, by responding "What free elections?".... he effectively said to the western allies "The USSR "liberated" Poland, and the USSR will decide who rules it.... so what are you going to do about it?" Churchill had already ordered his chiefs of staff to prepare an outline plan he called "operation unthinkable" whose aim was to push the Soviet Union and the Red army back to its Sept 1939 borders. But The US being by far the largest power of the western allies, vetoed the plan. The likelihood is that to repel the red army's 12.4 million troops in Eastern Europe would potentially have involved atomic weapons used in central Europe, and hundreds of thousands (if not millions) more deaths.
Respect, Love Gratitude and recognition for Polish Heroes.
Thank you for wonderful video/ documentary
I am Polish Canadian and I could feel remarkable pride of being part of that nation.
We are very very Thankful for all of the polish raf team who sacrificed there lives for everyone today's.
Massive respect to the Polish Navy too, On the 4th and 5th of May 1942 ORP Błyskawica (Lightning) a Grom-Class Destroyer, fought off a sustained and ferocious attack on the towns of Cowes & East Cowes (Isle Of Wight) by 160 Luftwaffe Bombers, Laying smoke and firing until her guns ran so hot they had to be doused with water from the River Medina and extra ammunition had to be ferried over from Portsmouth, The people of Cowes celebrate and honour the gallant actions of the ship and crew each year with a series of events lasting for a week, ORP Błyskawica was preserved as a Museum ship in Gydina Poland, the funny thing is, Błyskawica was built by J. Samuel White ship builders in Cowes and was only there for an emergency refit, talk about good timing.
Fun fact: Her crew acually PISSED on guns' barrels to cool those down... ORP Piorun vs Bismarck (yes, that Bismarck) is another story...
Salut from Poland
Blyskawica was simply defending her birthplace
pozdrawiam z Polski! miło wiedzieć że są jeszcze osoby które interesują się historią Polski i Polaków. Nasi ojcowie i dziadkowie walczyli z Niemcami i Sowietami, nie tylko o wolność własnego kraju ale tez o wolność innych narodów mając nadzieję na lepszą przyszłość. To ważne żeby ludzie w Europie wiedzieli że my w Polsce znamy znaczenie słowa wolność. I co teraz w Europie Zachodniej, Niemczech też, mamy?! o ironio losu nazywają nas faszystami- nas których ojcowie i dziadkowie jako pierwsi przeciwstawili się zbrojnie Hitlerowi. Przykre to, widać pamięć jest ulotna. Dlatego między innymi dziękuję bardzo za Pani reakcję na ten film, żeby nie zapomnieć!
Yea, right ho.
ona nabija wyswietlenia ma gdize spolska historie jak wylaczy youtuba ludize wydoroslejcie ona zbija japital na tym w postaci naiwnych polakow co pragna poklepania po lbie !
Tak interesują. Podpowiedział jej to kolega reagujący do polskich RAP teledysków. Co i jak podbija zasięgi.😂
These guys fought like tigers. Very brave and determined. Respect.
They were indeed 😊
Are you saying the british pilots dont deserve praise and did not fight like tigers only the few foreign pilots
@@turtle-gf6wv No. You said that.
@@turtle-gf6wv They had twice as many kills as the best English squadron
See also 40 to 1 (it was indeed 55 to 1. Wizna of 720 Poles fought against 40,000 Germans
soldiers who had tanks and air force
@@turtle-gf6wv The documentary wasn't about English pilots wasn't it? Nobody said a bad word about them...
Fun fact - several years ago the British National Party (a far right wing ,anti-immigration, racist, white power, political party) used wartime images to promote their national pride. One of the images was of a Spitfire. The delicious irony was that the image was of an RAF Spitfire with the markings of a Polish squadron!
yes and I dont think we should point out how we know that so these idiots keep making the same mistake . untill time is right to show their ignorance
Well, Poles are white. What's your point?
@@drwhatson Poles are not British, obviously.
@@drwhatson europians didnt look at white vs none white in same way the jews that hitler went after were white hitler had issues with some white ethnic groups and was fine with others
Brilliant!!!🤣🤣😂
Dziękuję Pani za film. Jestem pod wielkim wrażeniem, że ktoś się zainteresował. Nie będę jedynym, który powie, że takie kobiety Kochamy w Polsce.
Takie kobiety kochamy wszędzie, piękna lekcja historii
Nie tylko kobiety,wszystkich ,którzy świadczą przed światem o bohaterstwie
polskich żołnierzy w czasie II wojny światowej.Jesteśmy jedynym państwem,
które nie kolaborowało z hitlerowskim rządem.
@@vlodeklukasz1065 A w podzięce ci którzy kolaborowali nazywają nas faszystami
@@romulus4474 no tak
fu×cin foreginers - tak nazwa tego filmu brzmi nawet tak.. nawet w nazwie jada po nas ..a my im pomagamy...dalej
@@romulus4474 mało takich i nie warci zainteresowania. Takich trzeba pomijać.
The bravery of the Polish pilots that fought back against a common enemy will never be forgotton by the British people, at our side in an hour of great need.
A family friend owned a house and land, requisitioned and onto which hutted accomodation was built to house Polish refuges and after the war, four years were given for the Polish to move out and the land be returned. He never forced the issue, allowing then to stay until the last had moved on to a new life, such was his appreciation.
Your family friend was a great man. The best of people too often are not acknowledged. Please thank his descndants, and thank you for speaking of his sacrifice.
Before they got to England, they were piloting older generation planes, much worse than German or English ones and still they had a fighting spirit. That is why they were so good. Equiped with comparable machines along with that spirit, they became unmatched. Of course, some lost their lives but they outclassed everyone. Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, head of RAF Fighter Command: "Had it not been for the magnificent material contributed by the Polish squadrons and their unsurpassed gallantry, I hesitate to say that the outcome of the Battle (of Britain) would have been the same." In reward they were not invited to Victory Parade in London.
Not forgetting that the highest scoring pilot in the "all conquering" Polish 303 squadron was CZECHOSLOVAKIAN pilot Josef František DFM who accounted for 17 of the squadron's confirmed 58.5 kills. Why are the Poles not so forthcoming about the excellence of Czech Pilots?
@John Ashtone Hello John. I have NO axe to grind with the wartime contributions of Polish, Czech, and ALL of the allied nations service personnel that contributed to the eventual toppling of nazi tyranny. My comment was really aimed at the modern day Polish youth (and also western lefty idiots) whose comment's online consistently attack the UK "for not mentioning the Polish contribution to our collective victory" (even though their individual national contribution has been commemorated at EVERY UK remembrance day parade I've ever attended). My point being that the modern day youth, DEMAND recognition for Poland (which has never been withheld in the first place) whilst simultaneously ignoring their own neighbouring country's contributions to their own "glory". All the best.
Sorry if I don't remember you John, as you can imagine I do often "set the cat amongst the pigeons" with posts, and deal with many MANY responses.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 ok. no worries.
@John Ashtone
'I don't think the Poles have any particular animosity towards Czechs'
The Polish government helped itself to a piece of Czechoslovakia after the Munich agreement.
I live near RAF Northolt and there stands The Polish memorial a thank you to all of the brave Polish who served with our lads big respect.
The English authorities "allowed" the Poles to erect a monument dedicated to the pilots who died in the fight FOR ENGLAND . , using their own money collected among themselves .
This can be briefly and precisely commented ---A PERFIDY OF ALBION .
@@wojtekwesolowski1950 Poland didn't fight FOR ENGLAND[sic]. Poland fought for the UK. And the only reason they fought for the UK was because it was the only way to get revenge on Germany, and give hope of regaining their homeland. I notice you fail to mention the assistance that the UK supplied to the Polish resistance, the only country at the time doing so. You also have to remember that times were different then. People in the UK didn't fully understand the difference between other nationalities in Europe and so distrust was a major issue. Add to that the political situation with the USSR and well.... it's a much more complicated situation than it looks.
They have more to thank Britain for. So many of our young men died for them.
@@wojtekwesolowski1950
The war was fought to free Poland at the expense of Britian! Fool!
@@Mk1Male written as typical British Butler, Cheerios
The Polish pilots are far from forgotten, there are memorials to them all over the UK. As there are to 100s of American pilots that flew on missions from these islands.
Some of these memorials may be small local one’s but people do not forget the sacrifice of these people.
The Polish War Memorial on the A4 at Northholt Thank you Poland 🇵🇱
There is one at IWM Duxford too.
Well if you say this..what about any WW2 END's event's ?
why no one remind them names or one invite to celebrate end of the WW2
even once??? Truth is so difficult?
Im not even talking about the pinch of truth oo ANY tv just To know You that the polish pilots are never have one invitatioins letter to celebrate the wining
battle .. everyone celebrate end of WW2
And victory above germans but the Division pilots are never on any event, no remind words on tv when they talk stories HOW they won against nazi...
Withot any words of pilots
It would appear that some seem to forget that the UK and the commonwealth forces went to war after Poland was invaded, and many thousands spilled their blood for that cause.
Governments may forget but ordinary people in towns and villages here in the UK never have forgotten what the Polish airmen did.
@@eturfrey it maith be but did you se about then in tv or when whole world are celbrate end of WW2 or any important event..no never any simple words of the names of 303 306 309 Divisions pilots but any others are on monument on event's all are heroes but not the one who won the most important battle agaist germans
I am from Poland and I am proud of it .
My respect to these Pilots. They ought to be remembered. Thanks for sharing dear
Thank you sis❤️
They are referenced in the Battle of Britain film. Both in the "Repeat Please" scene and, along with all of the other nations, in the Roll of Honour at the very end.
On the first of october i have met son Jan "Donald" Zumbach on the grave of his father
we don't beg for freedom we fight for it...bigup from Polnd girl
Yes and we paid by polish gold to fight germans... tonnes of gold are still missing somewhere..if you ask about truth history..
(UK) I love the Poles, they've had to endure such hardships and suffering but they are some of the friendliest and hardworking people I have ever known.
I'm here watching....honour and praise the heroes. Their efforts are not forgotten, Loving this x great post!
Thank you for watching. They were indeed heros🤍
Tears falling down my cheeks!!! have know since a young lad of what the Polish sacrificed
Bóg Honor Ojczyzma pozdrawiam
My grandfather brother was Polish pilot in 309 squadron. Killed during the battle for Exeter.
The last battle of Exeter was the Norman siege of 1068. He must have had a time machine.
@@andrewsommerville6023 the battle above Exeter, on the sky
I have seen this documentary about SQN 303 so many times because it's a fantastic story. It's a great example of how different cultures can fight together. Of course the Polish should have been invited to the victory parade.Thank you for sharing and thanks for your comments
The Polish WERE invited to the victory parade... the matter is NOT as its "sold" by globalist MSM. I'll bore you with the details if you like, but I can only agree with the rest of your sentiments.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Reg. the Polish not being invited to the parade, I got it from a documentary on TH-cam. I am not interested in details, only sources. Don't know what globalist MSM is
@@poulmadsen7969 You're only "interested in sources" and yet have no idea what globalist MSM is? Aren't you interested in truth and fact? or just parroting the first thing on a subject you've read on YT?
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 This is a stupid discussion
I’m a Spitfire nut and passionate about the history around the Battle of Britain period. My parents used to live in Ickenham, literally 5 minutes from Northolt and the Polish War Memorial. As a young boy I would quite often walk into Uxbridge or Northolt aerodrome to stand and stare at the Spitfire gate guardians. Back in the early 80s these were genuine Spitfires. The Poles were highly motivated, as you can imagine. All such brave boys…and a special generation.
Now fibre glass hiding behind the fence at Northolt Aerodrome. !!!. they need to be seen with pride and thanks
From David A. Wood: To Ms.Onuh. Hello, my name is David A. Wood. I am an American citizen from Kettering, Ohio, USA. I find your documentary very informative. Although I already knew about the existence of the RAF's 303 Squadron, which was mostly manned by exiled Polish Air Force pilots, and its pivotal role in the Battle of Britain, I was highly pleased to have learned something new about the squadron's role and experience during WW 2. To Ms. Onuh again, please do keep up the good work.
Thank you for your channel 😍 I'm Polish I was born in Poland, my son is 12 he is Polish but he was born and we live in England, tomorrow we are going to cemetery to light up candles on Polish pilotes groves. Your video it's fantastic history lesson for my child. Bless you 🌼
Thank you 🙏 Bless you and your son💕
Its such a pity the video that Gloreeyah is watching is such misrepresented, mendacious globalist bullshit.
Dziękuję Ci
Wow, what an interesting and great documentary about Britain's battles. The Polish pilots did a great revelation too. Thanks for sharing sis
Thank you sis for watching. I appreciate 🙏
Those pilots needs to be remembered for sacrificing their lives
Indeed. Thank you for watching 😊
Yee ..and what about the gold we paid for it? To use uk equipments ...
Respect to those Pilots that sacrifice their lives. Great upload
Thank you for watching sis❤️
I don’t know why history is not always told how and what actually happened, thanks for sharing
History is written by winners.
That's why so many knows about Hitlers crimes, and so few knows about Stalins crimes.
Komunists were same bastards as nazis
It is told. I knew about these polish pilots, I always have.
History is written by the winners. Always best to read the other side too for a balanced view.
@@warakn
Stalins atrocities are well documented.
@@davidrowlands441 Same here. I've read and seen a lot about the Battle of Britain over decades, and the Polish (and come to that, any commonwealth and every other nation's involvement in the battle) has never been untold. I don't get why it's felt that it's been hidden for some reason. It hasn't. However, the failure to invite representatives of the Polish forces in exile to the 1946 post war victory parade was pretty shameful. Churchill himself protested this, but this was a complicated and politically charged time, whether that was any excuse.
I am an old man my mother and her first husband were in the air force throughout the war, he is buried in Berlin after being shot down. I never heard anything from anyone else but respect and gratitude for what the poles did, and lots of them stayed here after the war, there were Polish lads in my class at school and several Polish social clubs nearby.
Thank you for your honest memories John, Yes the Poles were, and still are, honoured by the UK, in 1947 by the "UK Polish Resettlement act" which placed the residency and citizenship rights of nearly 300,000 Polish ex service personnel AND their families on the UK statute books, and by the tributes paid to their valiant contribution at each year's Remembrance day parades across the country.
It needs to be said to challenge the "Brit haters" posting their complete nonsense on these threads.
We will always remember ,Glory to the heroes!!!! I remember reading a book ' Squadron 303 'by Arkady Fiedler as a little boy when I was still living in Poland its great story about our heroes. Gloreeyah Onuh thank you for this video. When bad times will come , Poles will fight again for God and freedom. God bless
My very brave mother at the last part of the war was stationed at a hospital for wounded Polish pilots. Suffering from bad burns, But of course the RAF at this time was helped out by many volunteer pilots from all over the world. The man that wrote "To sir with love" was a volunteer RAF fighter pilot from Ghana. Many were from the Caribbean. My uncle was a pilot with the goose squadron Canadians. At the garage where I worked a member of staff was married to a polish spitfire fighter. None of you are forgotten.
We the British owe a lot to 303 squadron..thank you 303. much respect R.I.P..my thoughts are with you..❤️❤️
When the Poles who fought alongside the British had their country stolen by the Soviets at wars end, they were ALL granted full UK citizenship, their courage, valour and resolve was repaid.
Worth to mention that there few squadrons made of polish, Czech and Slovakian pilots all of whom were very brave defending the UK sky.
My grandmother friend was back from the battle with... a half of the head. I remember I was afraid of him as a child ,bcs he had literally a half of the head, but after a spoke with him and I realised he had just many injuries and life threatening surgery I stated to treat him like a hero, he was a pilot, but for me he was just a old man in my granny's kitchen.
Thank you for sharing this document, I hope it will reach more Brits these days while Ukraine brave men fight back russian aggresion. Polish soldiers were true heroes...
The Poles were experienced veterans of the 1939 campaign having shot down or damaged 285 German planes in the campaign, the pilots and troops who escaped Poland had revenge on their minds and were the most aggressive of the RAF.
The Poles and Czechs had a powerful motivator in the fight to free their peoples.
I'm Polish living in UK for the past 12 years, I'm proud for who we are, hard working, honest, there's nothing we can't do, very strong ppl. Pozdrawiam Ciebie Gloreeyah! Swietny material!!
No to wracaj, zamiast u nich podatki płacić. :))) Sporo się zmieniło od kiedy ryżego chuja pogoniliśmy
My Polacy klękamy tylko przed Bogiem , co Nas nie zabije to nas wzmocni
I Janem Pawłem
Nie przezywaj.
I grew up right next to RAF Northolt. It was a hurricane base and most of the pilots were polish. Every year on VE day all the spitfires, hurricanes and Lancaster bombers would fly into Northolt to prepare for the flyover London. Once you hear the sound of a Rolls Royce Merlin engine you never forget it. There's a big memorial called the polish war memorial. All the names of the killed pilots were on it. They were incredibly brave and skillful men. ✌️♥️🇬🇧
Please, could you tell the story of Gen. Maczek, a Second WW hero and commander who never lost a single battle (of the very many he fought) and ended up as a bartender in Edinburgh? Or General Sosabowski, who saved thousands of British, and other allied forces, soldiers' lives and for that achievement, he got accused of treason and bore the consequences of his superiors' mistakes?
Yes
To są postacie i historie przy których James Bond to przedszkolak.Warto
też wspomnieć rotmistrza Witolda Pileckiego.
When was General Sosabowski accused of treason?
@@thevillaaston7811 market garden operation but that was fault of british hc
@@thevillaaston7811 Maria Krystyna Skarbek-Giżycka jak Bond
Dziękuję za film . Malo ludzi w Anglii wie o tym a reszta pozapominała. Jesteś jedna z osób która przypomina o prawdzie - dziękuję.
Niewielu młodych ludzi na Zachodzie ma JAKĄKOLWIEK świadomość swojej WŁASNEJ historii, nie mówiąc już o historii innych narodów. Wszystko za sprawą lewicowych globalistycznych systemów edukacji, które obecnie istnieją w całym "pierwszym świecie".
Mój przyjaciel Simon, co roku organizuje 11 Listopada na cmentarzu wojskowym w Newark, uroczystości na cześć Polaków którzy zgineli za Wielką Brytanie. Ten człowiek zrobił więcej dla pamięci Polaków niż sami Polacy. Otrzymał nawet nagrodę z rąk Konsula Generalnego - "Świadek Historii".
@@MaciejSx Dziękuję !!!
Wielu ludzi starszego pokolenia pamieta o naszych w tej wojnie. Spotkalem jednego lokalsa tu w Oksfordzie i opowiedzial mi historie o tym jak jeden z naszych zbombardowal pole jego dziadka bo mial uszkodzone podwozie i nie chcial ladowac z bombami na pokladzie. Ogolnie to bardzo szanowal nasz narod i odpowiadal, ze jego najlepszy przyjaciel nazywal sie Joe Wisniewski.
Thanks for true. Thanks for remember heroes. Thanks for remember Polish part in WW2. Thanks from Polish guys👍 We never forget D303 and all heroes WW2. Good bless you from me and i hope everyone, let's love love true 👍🇵🇱🇬🇧
I watched the film, "The Battle of Britain", which was made in the sixties and mentioned the Polish contribution to the battle. So I knew something about the Poles and the Royal Air Force. What was remarkable about this film was not the film itself, but watching Gloria's beautiful face and her reaction to some of the scenes. Truly beautiful.
The famous film The Battle of Britain watched all over the world shows how 303 Squadron was initially treated how they where accepted and how their tactics where adopted. It’s not an untold Story. I grew up near Northolt Aerodrome where they where based, there is a War Memorial there and it’s called the Polish War Memorial. Many Poles stayed after the war. The Polish Pilots are well respected in the UK, there was more than one Squadron. Pilots where guided by air controllers and understanding of English was needed to get to where the Germans where and to get home safe or report. The British declared war on Germany when Poland was invaded as we had a pact with Poland. Poland had also started breaking early Enigma signals and shared its knowledge with the UK who ran with it at Bletchley Park and kept breaking all the developing complexity of the German codes and enciphering machinery, UK developed the Worlds first programmable electronic computer to help break the German codes. Bletchley Park 50 miles North of London can be visited in the UK to see all the exhibits. It is believed the info extracted shortened the war by two years. So maybe others outside the UK did not know or maybe some of the current generation but we knew. Respect to the Polish warriors whether they fought in the air on the ground or at sea. They where incorporated into all the arms of the armed services.
Well said Anthony. Fantastic to see someone else speaking facts. We need more on these threads to combat against the current globalist orchestrated flash mobs who brief against the UK for giving the two fingers to their EUSSR puppets.
In what part of the film does it mention 303 Squadron tactics being adopted?
In the eyes of a very nationalistic population the Poles had to have a whipping boy for their own shortcomings. As it intimates in this film the Poles were demolished in a matter of days why should we pay any attention to anything they have to offer? A reasonable stance given the information available. It is a nonsense to try to portray they were the only pilots in Britain with combat experience. They had a few days fighting in their locker - so did the Free French pilots, the Dutch pilots and the Czech pilots as did their RAF counterpart - who do we think was flying the RAF and French sorties above Dunkirk and in the weeks prior to the evacuation?
We then get the accusation of Britain did nothing to help Poland. Not borne out by fact of course but that won't stop the nationilistic mindset trying to pass the parcel to anyone but their own leaders. Britain said we would declare war on Germany if they did not pull back - we did exactly that. Within a year we had fought and forced the Kriegsmarine back into their safe havens and they played a negligable part in the proceedings from then on. Britain did not have a large standing army - in fact it has always been thus our Army has always been pathetically small. We could not get there by land as we had to go through Germany to do so - how? Britain mobilized very quicklyl and managed to get a sizeable force in France within a few months. The RAF were not prepared but better prepared than the army was. Nevertheless we did what we said we would and it cost us dearly to do so, in fact, it broke the country both militarily, financially and politically. It was the end of the Empire for sure. So just what did Britain get by being as good as its word toward Poland? I hastily add I am pretty pro-Polish, holidayed there and enjoyed it, rub shoulders with Poles who have moved here and respect and like most of those I've met, admire them for their feisty attitude at a time Britain needed them to step up but Polish nationalistic BS is no less BS than all the other varieties out there just don't expect the Poles to ever see it that way though.
@@scaleyback217 Agree on that, whoever tries to make out Brits did not take part and employed only pilots escaped from countries or commonwealth countries is an uniformed idiot. The vast majority of the RAF pilots where Brits. If the Pilots where not already in the RAF, many had already learned to fly pre war due to Schemes set up by the Government that thought (looks like we need Pilots right now). So Britain had the right things in place and we had the English Channel to stop the Germany Army dead, the most powerful Navy in the World at that time and for the previous 100 years would have sunk any invasion fleet. The most integrated air Defense system in the World at that time won a battle and kept the skies clear. The aircraft the Hurricane and Spitfire equipped with the Merlin where there at the right time. Britain with its commonwealth allies and any escapees from occupied countries held at a critical time. If it had not Russia would have been invaded by the full German War machine earlier in Season? Russia was supplied munitions tanks guns from the UK and the States. Take that away as well and now Russia falls. Nowhere for America to mass troops in Europe and then the US has to fight Japan Germany Italy on its own??. Britain played a key part at a key time.
@@scaleyback217 I understand your subjective, very British, point of view on the WWII matters but it appears clear to me that you either do not know of or conveniently leave out many other aspects of the war and the political situation on the global level that show your country's role and deeds in less-than-favourable light. As it was the case, England entered the war not b/c it was really threatened by Hitler and communist SU but b/c the elite ruling your country was actually part of the global clique and cabal which had earlier on begot, funded, and clandestinely directed these inhuman monstrosities to achieve the global (not just British or else) domination out of ashes. The frivolous "pact" with Poland was a mere tool to make it happen and set off the world conflict. Poland was deliberately fooled only to be thrown under the bus immediately thereafter by her double-faced "allies" and that's an established fact that none can ignore.
Have you ever heard of the Gomberg Map (please find out for yourself what it was and WHEN it was published)? Have you had any idea that, at that time, Stalin's primary henchman, Beria, head of the most murderous NKVD, was a British spy in fact with whom your wartime gov't held secret lines of contact? That fact certainly must have come in handy in sealing Gen. Sikorski's fate in his murder in Gibraltar in 1943 and why your country secretly worked together with the Soviet intelligence ring there. No wonder the files concerning that heinous act have been held secret in the UK since then and continue to do so for another 50 years. If your country's gov't were not complicit in this atrocity, then why not open them up for the public?
Why did the British sequester the Polish gold valiantly saved by the Polish gov't-in-exile after the war on an excuse that it was to pay the costs of keeping and supplying the Polish army, airmen, and Navy who were fighting and spilling their precious blood in the defense of your wretched homeland? What if Poland decided not to fight and come to terms with Hitler who really wanted to have Poles on his side? Would you be happier if she did so? With his eastern borders secured, Hitler would've thrown all his might against France and the UK and the outcome of the war in Europe would be totally different. Arguably, even the Shoah would not necessarily happen on the Polish land if this scenario was played out. Not speaking of the millions of innocent lives of East and Central European countries that could be saved, including the people under the Soviet boot. Discounting also the vast material destruction and utter desolation that the war has wrought on these poor nations.
There are many more issues not touched upon or plainly falsified in the official accounts of the WWII history that need to be brought to daylight lest we continue to stay in the dark and be manipulated into another conflict, which practice has for very long been the cornerstone of the British "balance of powers" politics, first on the European, now on a global scene. The policy that, in a nutshell, puts other nations head-on on a collision course, provokes conflicts between them, and then makes them fight, deplete their resources (guess who's profitting then) and bleed to the last one. We know your country's motto: "England has no eternal friends or enemies but eternal interests." What looks perhaps legit in your perception is, unfortunately, one of the main causes of the great evil that the world has suffered from for centuries now. Not so glorious a past to be proud of, indeed.
Today your country is trying to play this old mean trick on the Central and East Europeans again by luring us into a major conflict with Russia by creating a Ukraine-Poland-UK (Anglia) axis (abbreviated as the UPA, which sounds very ominous for historical reasons, and comes as a slap and spit on the Polish faces at the same time) against the Russian Federation. Are the Brtish really that stupid to think of us as ignorant and oblivious of their country's past heavy misdeeds and hostile attitude towards our countries that we could fall into the same trap again? Think about it if you will.
What a fantastic channel you have..big respect to you.. the polish and the brits had a very good brotherly relationship in ww2..many poles fought in british RAF squadrons, they enlisted in the british army and manned the Royal Navy ships..many married british women and stayed on after the war..still to this day the polish have a very positive and important role in the uk..
why have we not heard of these brave pols, thanks for sharing
Great britain hate Poles....
@Lechu Maybe you are right, but I saw they don't like Poles becouse "We take their jobs" while working in Great Britain, it bothers them
@@Milo51537 Most people in most countries would feel the same Karol, I am no hater of Poland, and indeed I thank them for their contribution to the allied war effort during WW2, but ALL peoples have a natural reaction to sudden influxes of strangers into their midst, and Poles would be no different.
It's hardly unknown. For one thing the Polish squadron was prominent in The Battle of Britain feature film of 1969. It was the most popular film of the year and is frequently shown on TV.
Most of the many squadrons of the RAF at the time never get a specific mention at all. The Polish Squadron does because it was out of the ordinary.
Thank you for you appreciation of our battle of Britain and our Polish freinds ,303,,squadron God bless them
One of these pilots lived and lived in my town in Poland. His daughter taught me English in high school 35 years ago.
At first they lived in England, only later did they return to Poland.
The British demanded from Poland remuneration for the stay of Polish Soldiers in England. They commandeered Polish gold that had been transported there just before the war.
You pay for your own war effort... what on earth makes you think the UK tax payer should pay for the Polish war effort?
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Pay as a Polish soldier for the Polish rise to defend England in 1940 self-righteous English!
@@jacekrybka7165 Silly Jacek. The Poles who were kindly given refuge in the UK in 1940 were SAVED by that act from instead ending up dead in a ditch in a remote Byelorussian forest with a soviet bullet in the back of their heads, or as a pile of dust on the floor of a nazi death camp crematorium.
Another clueless commenter who believes "Poles were fighting for Britain"..
Were the Poles who were killed fighting nazis in North Africa "fighting for Egypt, Libya & Tunisia"?
Were the Poles who were killed fighting nazis at Monte Cassino "fighting for Italy"?
Were the Poles who were killed fighting nazis during operation Market Garden "fighting for the Netherlands"?
No, they were fighting to topple the nazis, the torturers of THEIR home country, not OURS. In the same way that Poland didn't contribute towards the fight in the far east against the militarism of the Japanese... because the Japs weren't the ones murdering the Polish population.
Modern day Poles would do well to remember the collective 1.1 million British and French lives that were sacrificed in the war to remove nazi tyranny from POLISH soil.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 EOT.
Dziękuję, z Polski.
Droga Pani! Skuteczność polskich pilotów myśliwskich nie polegała tylko na ich odwadze i brawurze, ale na morderczej selekcji i znakomitym, długotrwałym wyszkoleniu w szkole pilotów w Dęblinie. Tam się dostawał 1 kandydat na 100, a w trakcie szkolenia połowa odpadała. Pilotami polskich sił zbrojnych zostawała absolutna elita.
From the Battle of Britain Archive : Pilots / Aircrew who served in the Battle of Britain (those killed in brackets). UK 2,424 (452), Poland 141 (29), New Zealand 103 (14), Canada 90 (20), Czechoslavakia 86 (8), Belgium 29 (6), Australia 21 (14), France 13 (0), Ireland 9 (0), USA 7 (1), Southern Rhodesia 2 (0), Jamaica 1 (0), Palestine 1 (0).
Brave men every one, wherever they came from !
SUPER SIĘ OGLĄSA TAK PIĘKNĄ KOBIETE KYURA POZA URODĄ POSIADA JESZCZE SWOJĄ OSOBOWOSC CUD KOBIETA PIĘKNA MĄDRA RZADKOSC W DZISIEJSZYCH CZASACH POZDRAWIAM Z POLSKI
Ile ty masz lat? tu chodzi o historię i bohaterstwo a nie twój tani podryw, litości żałosny jesteś.
Thank you for showing this film Gloreeyah, we really do owe our freedom to all these wonderful pilots . So young and so brave , love to you x
No we don't.
I have a lot of Polish friends. Weirdly I often find myself educating them on the part Poland played in the defence of our nation.
Ignorance might be a blessing
Yes... I end up doing the same !
I think the reason for this is the Poles were kept in the dark by the communists about their Countrymens achievements whilst in the service of the UK/ Allied cause... They might have gleemed further ideas of nationhood.👍
@@supreme3376 what are you on ?
Never let them forget,we no longer have thoses paper pins we use to have on "wings day" we use to wear as kids during Battle of Britain week.
I'm Polish and it is quite strange you have to educate Polish people about the battle of Britain as this 303 squadron and Polish fighters are one of the top 10 most famous things ppl read about in Poland about ww2. Your friends, with whole respect, do not read much...
Thank you for this amazing contribution. You're a great lady, Madam !!!! Utmost respects and blessings to You :)
Jan Zumbach...My God he was awsome! There's a book about his adventures after the war "Ostatnia walka". I don't know if there's an english translation. Hollywood should make a film about him.
Hollywood spent decades making Polish jokes which certainly benefitted those who hated Poles and government comfortable with a Poland handed over to and enslaved by the USSR.
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Gloreeyah. Thank you very much for commemorating Polish airmen. You did a great job!
Dziękuję za pamięć naszych bohaterów .
You got my respect young Lady.
You know the movie King Kong? It was written by Marian C Cooper. Before his career in the movie industry, he was a volunteer fighter pilot and one of the founders of the Polish Airforce. He actually visited the 303 during the war from America.
Dziękuję,że mówisz o wkładzie polskich lotników i oczywiście w ogóle Polaków
w obronę Anglii w czasie II wojny światowej.Polska zachowała się podczas
II wojny światowej godnie,nie było kolaboracji rządu z Niemcami,Polacy walczyli
o wolność na wszystkich frontach II wojny światowej.Niestety Anglia i USA oddały
nas pod okupację ZSRR i nie odzyskaliśmy jej do dzisiaj,bo skutki tej okupacji
doprowadziły do niewoli gospodarczej od banków centralnych i finansjery
Unii Europejskiej.Świat nie jest sprawiedliwy dla bohaterów.To Niemcy
wygrały II wojnę światową.
W heraldyce biel jest symbolem czystości, lojalności, pokory i szlachetności. Czerwień oznacza miłość, dzielność, żarliwość i poświęcenie. Takie znaczenie mają kolory polskiej flagi. Tacy właśnie jesteśmy , My Polacy , Chrześcijanie, klękamy tylko przed Bogiem, gotowi nawet do poświęceń własnego życia, żeby drugie życie ratować. 💪❤✌️ 🇵🇱🤝🇬🇧
Polacy obronili Brytyjczyków - a oni kazali im za to płacić 107 650 000 funtów. Wszystko zostało pokryte z rezerw polskiego złota zdeponowanego w Kanadzie.
It is just a bit of truth..polish gold never come back do Poland
Bo samoloty nic nie kosztują przecież. Myślisz że Brytyjczycy nigdy nie zapłacili za pomoc od USA to wyciągnij kij z dupy i przestań być komunistą.
Nigdy im tego nie wybaczę
There was also a lot of Polish Army units based in the UK, in my home town there was a Polish Anti Aircraft unit as well as 2 Army Units and nearby there were Polish Tank Regiments, Some stayed and I know a few of their sons and daughters.
Many thanks to you for that legendary Polish power 🎉
Thanks for spreading fame and glory of our pilots, as not everyone knows how much they owe them.
Thank you again, best of luck from Poland 🇵🇱
Fantastic take on this in the movie, The Battle of Britain. The commander orders the pilots back to base rather than engage in the battle while training. Each pilot peels off saying “Repeat, please” to his orders not to engage until he was left all alone lol
my gandfather worked with poles in battle of britan. he always like them a lot and even met with them in krakow in poland after 2 ww
Never been a huge fun of history but you are making me fall in love with history. Keep them coming girl 🏆🎊
Thank you hun ❤️
Churchill said it best, "Never have so many owed so much to so few" I think it was 500-600 pilots vs 2000 German pilots. Kind of like the battle of Agincourt in 1415.
I learn a lot from your channel, thank you Gloweeyah!!!!
Oh I’m glad you do. Bless you ❤️
Thank you for this video, you are wonderful. All the best from Poland!
Polish pilots that elite and gentleman’s I think most of them are highly educated.
Thank you for posting this ❤️. I might have been one to comment on Battle of Britain.
I was always told to remember the Polish (but other nations including India) that saved Britain.
What I find a tragedy is how many died on all sides and for what?
One totalitarian government to be replaced by another, so sad.
Yes you were among the first few. Thank you for your suggestion. I’m glad I got to watch this x
@@GloreeyahOnuh Thank you again, I really appreciate that you took the time - Britain did many terrible things (I'm half Irish, don't know if you've reacted to the Irish potato famine) but it also did good things too including fighting the Nazis with the help from many nations. Thanks again ❤️🇮🇪🏴
I’ll take a look at that one. Thank you x
@@GloreeyahOnuh th-cam.com/video/fpMAy6pfHbM/w-d-xo.html
This gives an outline of the "Irish Potato Famine" - over 150 years later and the population of Ireland still has not recovered. I'm half Irish half English, so my emotions are mixed and confused on this - made more torn apart by the recent "Troubles" (started ~1969 - half my life it was too dangerous for me to visit my Irish family).
It will give you some idea of why the island of Ireland is separated in two (details of 1916 rising, or before that Oliver Cromwell, are way too complicated).
With love ❤️🏴🇮🇪.
Thank You so much for Your reaction and thank You all beautiful people who are strong enough to say the truth!!!all the best to You!!!
A total of eighteen Polish Squadrons served with the RAF. Seven Day Fighter Squadrons, two Night Fighter Squadrons, two Reconnaissance Squadrons, an Artillery Observation Squadron, two Special Squadrons, and Four Bomb Squadrons.
Although the majority of these had not been created or were not active during the battle of Britain.... While Britain continues to pay tribute to the Polish contribution to the allied cause during WW2, for accuracy's sake you could easily overstate the Polish forces that actually took part in the battle of Britain if you're not careful.
Thank You ❤ to show this documentry 😉 Greetings from Poland
Thanks for sharing this with us Gloreeyah
I remember in the part of England where I lived, Polish or even ex-German POWs were all treated kindly after the war, had jobs and integrated well into British society.
Only come across this one just now. Like many people I was extremely puzzled by all the 'untold story' & 'we must remember them' comments? My father was already an RAF officer when the war started (and long after it ended) so I was brought up hearing all the stories first-hand: and the admiration the RAF had/has for all those who came over and joined up was always part of those stories, in which the Poles in the RAF were legendary. My son has married a wonderful Polish girl and I know his grandfather would be very proud.
But this also made me remember that, when I was a kid, all the big-budget 'death & glory' movies about the war (as they were nicknamed) came out of America. It was not unusual at that time in theatres for British & Allied ex-servicemen to loudly protest at the slant put on these and get up en-masse and leave the theatre in anger - my own father included.
Now most people, after all this time, will only know about WWII from movies; and most of those are American...so the Battle of Britain - which was fought & won before the USA entered the war - doesn't usually feature. To the Brits it was the most important theatre of WWII battles; we lost homes, towns, thousands of civilians, our cities were ruined. It lives on in the national consciousness - especially as, even to-day the scars of WWII are all around us. A constant reminder of the part the RAF...comprising both men & women of many other countries...played. So perhaps because few people have seen movies about it, they assume it's because no-one remembers? There were streams of British movies made about it - some of which are on TH-cam. But as they were more subdued than Hollywood all-action war movies, perhaps it's those old black & white films which have been 'lost': not the history of the Allies in that war, I think?
I am very glad that you made a blog about Squadron 303. I thank you with all my heart .❤️🌹🍀
Thank you 🙏
T❤❤hank you for the great material and the truth about our underrated boys, glory to the heroes
A little known episode from the history of 303 Squadron and other Polish air squadrons in the Normandy Landing.
In 1944, Polish fighter squadrons participated in the preparation of the invasion by performing tasks together with the allied aviation. 11 Polish squadrons participated in the operation, including 8 fighter and 3 bomber squadrons. The 131 Fighter Wing - commander Major Stefan Janus (squadrons: 302, 308 and 317) and the 305th bomber squadron subordinated to British forces took part directly. The remaining fighter squadrons and the 300 bomber squadron also participated in the initial phase. The main task of aviation was air cover and escort of bombers, fire support of land forces and reconnaissance. Already on the first day of the operation, one of the Polish wings shot down the largest number of aircraft, and by June 25, 38 aircraft. The wing planes performed four airliners a day, escorting the bombers. Squadron 303 with RAF planes covered the left wing of the invasion fleet and landing troops. Squadron 307 (night bombers) fought submarines. Bomber squadrons 300, 304 and 305 fought from day one. Squadron 305 destroyed German fuel supplies (about 13 million liters) near Nancy. The press wrote that "with this act, the Poles won the battle for France". In early August, the 131st Wing was deployed to France at the airport near Caen and operated in the direction of the troops' attack. 133 Fighter Wing (commander Major Stanisław Skalski) and other squadrons operated from English airfields against V-1 missiles and supporting the offensive. From June 12, 1944, the Germans began shelling England with V-1 missiles, and by July 29, they had fired about 2,000 of them. From July 9, three Polish aviation squadrons were included in the fight against the V-1. The Poles shot down 190 V-1 missiles. Polish aircraft, supporting the landing in France, performed 8,000 sorties.
To bardzo ciekawe , szczerze nie znałem tej historii, a czy to prawda ,że przed wojną Urbanowicz na pokazach lotniczych złapał na szpiegowaniu w hangarze Willy’ego
Messerschmitta późniejszego kontruktora samolotów i mu obił mordę?
@@greg3597 Teraz ja jestem zaskoczony . Bo o tym nie słyszałem . Zaciekawiło mnie to . Poszukam z ciekawości .
@@greg3597 To prawda . Bo nawet na Polskiej Wikipedii o tym piszą . Podobno nawet wycelował w niego z pistoletu . Został za to przeniesiony do szkolenia pilotów w Dęblinie .
@@ireneusz-u9i pewnie żałował później do końca życia że nie zastrzelił chu...😉
@@greg3597 To by nic nie zmieniło. Tylko kto inny by opracował Niemcom samoloty . Może nawet jeszcze bardziej zabójcze
They were some serious Pilots. Thanks Gloreeyah xxx
Incredible to say the least xx