Dlaczego tak było? Jak jesteś wysokiej klasy specjalista wojskowym masz problem.z pracą. Nie tylko generałowie mieli problem , piloci też. Jeden z pilotów który bronił nieba w. Brytanii w roku 1940 po wojnie był taksówkarzem. Tylko ludzie krorzy mieli zawód cywilny mogli pracować, ale dużo musiało wyjechać z W. Brytania..Jan Zumbach as myśliwski dostal łaskawie dwa dni na pożegnanie się i wyjazd z Angli .
@@robertklimczak5630 Ale w tej niechęci powrotu do kraju, gdzie rządzili sowieci... ciekawe jakie były losy lotników czeskich, oni byli w podobnej łódce...
@@robertklimczak5630 Pamiętaj że po wojnie w której walczyło tylu ludzi miałeś masę takich specjalistów i pilotów na nowym rynku pracy. Inni alianccy weterani mieli lepiej bo mogli zostać w wojsku jeśli byli bardziej zasłużeni ale oczywiście Polskie wojsko na uchodźstwie już nie istniało więc Polaków to nie dotyczyło.
Fun fact: the first modern mine detector for use on land in field, was made by a polish military engineer, Josef Kosacki. He donated the invention for free to the british army, and 500 were very soon send to North Africa, to the british 8 army... That fact a long time not widely known, because he did it in part incognito, and in part because of common misspellings. His family was still in Poland, and he didnt wished to be renown not to hurt them. After the war, he managed to come to Poland, and again, he didnt wished it be known he was active in the army in west: the communist regime was hostile to these soldiers. So he managed to have a continueed cariier as engineer and scientist.
@@TangoTheDamnMango Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of kevlar, was born to polish immigrants. But on a related note, a wiki quote about bulletproof vests: "Kazimierz Żegleń used Goodfellow's findings to develop a silk bulletproof vest at the end of the 19th century, which could stop the relatively slow rounds from black powder handguns.[11] The vests cost US$800 each in 1914, equivalent to $24,000 in 2023.[11] A similar vest made by Polish inventor Jan Szczepanik in 1901 saved the life of Alfonso XIII of Spain when he was shot by an attacker. By 1900, US gangsters were wearing $800 silk vests to protect themselves.[12]
@@planet_69 Rząd polski, pod naciskiem Wielkiej Brytanii, wypowiedział wojnę Cesarstwu Japonii, ale było to wymuszone i tak właśnie traktowane przez oba państwa, które przed II Wojną Światową miały wręcz przyjazne stosunki, a w czasie wojny, mimo oficjalnego statusu wrogów, współpracowały wywiadowczo przeciwko ZSRR, który był wrogiem zarówno Japonii, jak i Polski, mimo że oficjalnie, po wybuchu wojny sowiecko- niemieckiej, Polacy znaleźli się po stronie sojuszników sowietów- jak widać historia potrafi pisać naprawdę ciekawe i dziwne scenariusze. A skąd tak dobre stosunki polsko-japońskie przed II Wojną Światową? Japończycy po wybuchu rewolucji bolszewickiej w Rosji ewakuowali z Syberii setki polskich dzieci, sierot wojennych, i pomogli im wrócić do Polski po tym, jak odzyskała ona niepodległość w 1918 roku- takie rzeczy się pamięta. Z kolei już po wybuchu II Wojny Światowej japońscy dyplomaci wystawili dokumenty umożliwiające ucieczkę tysiącom Polaków zagrożonych śmiercią z rąk sowietów i niemców- i o tym też wiedziano w polskim rządzie w Londynie, dlatego "wojna polsko- japońska" była czysto symboliczna i ograniczyła się do JEDNEGO ŻOŁNIERZA :) .Polski pilot myśliwski, Witold Urbanowicz, został zaproszony przez Amerykanów do wstąpienia do działających w Chinach Latających Tygrysów, a że z natury był łowcą przygód z awanturniczą naturą, to zaproszenie przyjął. I taka to była "wojna polsko- japońska".
Do not forget that when the war ended Britain charged Poland for planes and their servicing, airfields, ammo, bombs, fuel, medical treatment, accommodation and food. The total bill for that was 107 650 000 British Pounds. Unthinkable money if you consider that in 1945 a house in Britain would cost around 1000 Pounds. It was basically a way to steal the gold Poland has managed to miraculously transfer to Canada as soon as the war started. That's why I will never have any respect for the British.
And British government gave a bill to us to pay rental for equpment and a fee for a fuel - all that efford, that gave nothing to Poland itself. And was paid not by new communist regime, but by disregarded Polish Government at Exile, with Polish gold reserves stored by pre-war Polish government - Brits just took it, saying: "We will grant you our matters settled with such small amount." Bollocks! 😒
@@TrustyEngineer When the war started Poland had 79,5 tons of gold still inside the country and miraculously managed to evacuate 71 tons of it with many buses and trains going south through Romania and all the way to Liban and than on a ship to France. Then when France started losing the gold was moved to Africa (today's Senegal and Mali). When Brits took over the Polish gold in 1944 they took 11 tons for "renting airstrips, hangars, planes, accommodation, uniforms, guns, etc. and for fuel, food, ammunition, bombs, plane servicing and medical care. That is despite the only way Poles even used the planes was to defend Britain from the German invasion. The bill was 107 650 000 Pounds at the time when an average house in England would cost 1000 Pounds. Britain is a disgusting country, especially its crown. I don't even know why some people even considered them as allies to Poland.
One of my uncles named Bronislaw was a soldier in 1st Armoured Division. He actually was fighting under command of gen. Maczek since September campaign of 1939. My uncle was also fighting in France in the spring of 1940. After the war he married a Belgian woman and stayed in Belgium until his death. He received the Virtuti Military, highest military decoration in Poland.
Poland never capitulated in 1939. Polish government and military command shifted to Romania and then to France and finally to UK. There was never any capitulation document signed as in case of France in 1940.
@@Northerner-Not-A-Doctor You are totally wrong. Poland never capitulated contrary to France. Polish authorities crossed border with Romania on 17 September 1939 on the day of Soviet invasion from the east. Last regular unit of Polish army, Grupa Operacyjna "Polesie" capitulated on 6 October in Kock. On 2 October naval base at Hel capitulated but it wasn't whole Poland; it never happened. Rgds
@@mecx7322 5th X was the last day of fights, 6th X was the day of signing the documents. But ok, I indeed can't find the capitulation of Poland act, even after they betrayal of 17th IX by marshall Rydz-Śmigły there still was someone highest in command able to do so, gen. Kutrzeba, who signed act of of capitulation of Warsaw, not of the state.
@@Northerner-Not-A-Doctor Poland was the only significant country in Europe not to sign any general capitulation during WW2. This fact is not widely known today. You should think twice before calling marshall Rydz-Smigly a traitor. What other choices he had? Perhaps he would prefer to surrender to Germans and spend entire war in some prison in decent conditions. But on 17th September he was already in south eastern Poland, close to border with Romania. On 17th Soviets invaded and were moving swiftly in western direction. He knew very well what would happen in case of capture by Soviets. About 30000 Polish officers were executed in Katyn and other places in 1940. Perhaps his life would have been spared in case of some sort of collaboration or maybe he would end his life somewhere in Siberia; nobody knows. Decision to cross Romanian border was not an easy one. Some officers even decided to commit suicide on cross point in Zaleszczyki. Whole Polish government moved to Romania and later mostly to France and UK, where they were of some use for the Bristish.
Thank you for this endorsement of the Polish war effort. I'm an old man in Eastern Kentucky but I know of the gallantry and determination of Polish military forces, from their, perhaps, history changing fighting during the Battle of Vienna against the Ottoman Turks to their contribution in WWII.
I heard once refer to the land Poland has historically now and then occupied as "the worst Civilization game start location": impossible to defend because it's plains to the east and west, where two historically hostile civilizations have spawned (Germany and Russia), and blocked in the north-south axis by sea and mountains.
@@mahu5766 Polish-Bolshevik war (1919-1921) mentioned in the material and land disputes with Lithuania, Ukraine, Czechia and Germany (as after ww1 Poland has been re-established after 123 of occupation) not played very nicely by Poland, we did lots of shitty stuff :/
@@mecx7322 wonder how would war with Sweden go if not for Russia and Cossacks? xD it's easy to stab in the back, as formally polish king in 1650s was also king of Sweden but got f-up by his kin (if I remember correctly, had priority in inheritance but was Christian and most of Sweden was Protestant - I might be mistaken, (i don't remember if that was reasons of this war but i recall situation like that in history due to polish free election of the time) so they preferred his uncle or something like that not mentioning land disputes over Livonia) but also the Polish king was shitty at a time and most of cities just surrendered and got looted for that if you refering to that :/ Anyways with Sweden there were no common borders so no reason to be salty
Thank you for spreading the knowledge about the Polish contribution! Dziękuję bardzo, dobra robota! One tiny clarification that comes to my mind is that I'm pretty sure that the three BGs on that tactical map of the battle of the Falaise pocket stand for "battle groups", not brigades.
Thanks for posting this. My father was Polish Cavalry at the outbreak of WW2 then Armii Krajowe until arrested by the Gestapo in a general roundup in 1943 after which he was a slave labourer until his own liberation in 1945. Always nice to hear about the contribution of the Polish forces serving in the Western militaries. Niech ze y je Polska!
Great video once again! Only thing you missed was the panther tank the Polish donated to the city of Breda, which still stands there today als a monument!
Thumbs up for pointing out that in 1939 Soviet Russia was an ally of the German Nazis in invading Poland. On September 17, they entered Poland as agreed upon in the Ribbentrop-MołotowPact.
My grandfather flew close air support during D-Day landings (302nd Polish squadron). At that time he, along with his flight lead managed to sink 2 midget submarines. Later he went on to provide CAP in and around Falaise pocket and strafed targets of opportunity
Parade is just... parade. Sjmbolic moment. More devastating was tha Churchil and Roosvelt were feeding russian bear and gave half of Europe to Stalin for free.
Not his decision to make as he was no longer the Prime Minister as he lost power in July 1945. Stalin pressured the Labour Party government to not allow the Poles to participate in the 1946 parade.
Thank you so much for this recognition. Poland was very hard done by during and not least after the war but such work as yours here make us proud and appreciated.
Hello Hilbert. One for your girlfriend's country. I saw my Polish colleague this week for the first time in a while. He usually mentions the Polish who fought in Italy, as I commented before, but this was interesting as it does not get mentioned as much.
On top of that the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 has engaged approx. 25k German troops that could not have been deployed elsewhere and disabled a vital transport hub between eastern and western front, right in face of Soviets approaching from the east.
And then Soviets didn't allow Allied use of their airports to send aid to Warsaw and just sat on the eastern side of Vistula while Warsaw was being burned down
Maybe Lithuania next. My brother's scoutmaster was a Lithuanian Airforce officer, their Airforce was destroyed in the first week, and he would fight with Lithuanian underground.
@@darkopuric569 Comrade, the devil English language start sentences with capital letters and end their evil speech with punctuation. Dah! Glory to the Apostle of Mosckoba! Dah!
The light cruiser mentioned, ORP Dragon, was hit by a mini-uboat, badly damaged, and thus, used as part of port installation as a provisoric wave-breaker.
Because of this video and when I looked for more information I learned today that over 900,000 American Poles were in the United states Armed Forces in World War II. Army and Navy records list 20 percent as American Poles. The names of Poles were heard throughout the Marine Corps, Army and Navy, as well as the WACS, SPARS, and WAVES. Throughout the United States recruiting offices stated that 50 percent of their volunteers were of Polish descent and were “among the first to enlist.” Some of the men who attained the rank of General in World War II were: John Wisniewski, Joseph Berzynski, and John Rataj. 19.400 Poles served in the RAF, across Fighter, Bomber and Coastal commands. 300 (Polish) Squadron, serving with Bomber Command, suffered the highest number of deaths of any Bomber Command unit. 5% of the pilots involved in the Battle of Brittain were Polish (145 in total), but were responsible for 12% of total victories, with 303 (Polish) Fighter Squadron recognised as the most successful of any Allied squadron.
One the best history video done .great job here.just remember Polish division 303 in UK fight Germans on the air then on victory parade they even didn’t invite by UK government so they come back to Poland and most of them was just killed by KGB .
It was the polish military that stopped the mongols sweeping through Europe have a very strong military history or so took part in arnhem with the paratroops
If by Mongols you mean the Bolsheviks, then that's correct, but if you mean the real Mongols, we Poles didn't stop them, we have been fucked up in every war with them, the Mongols were stopped by internal problems
I love how we completely ignored the fact that the Soviets were literal allies with Germany. They ussd the war as an excuse to exapnd. And thus the cold war started afterwards. If only they got some sort of consequences for that.
My wife is Polish and grew up in Commie times. Her school taught her that the Soviets invaded Poland "to save Poland from the Germans". Everybody knew it was a lie.
@@jugbywellington1134 sadly not everyone knew that. Especially lower class, living in the area that didn't have direct experience with Red Army. Also the memories of the Germans and what they did were so strong that people didn't want to think that there might be yet another evil... Ofc the Communist regime was hated by most, it was brutal and people still remembered Soviet crimes from the interwar period. But in the second decade after the war many people were just stuck with the narration they were being taught in school. My grandfather was always saying that Katyń Massacre was done by the Soviets...most people were thinking that he was a conspiracy theorist or that he just shouldn't say things like that or he would be arrested (which is true).
@@jugbywellington1134 The official reason for Russia's invasion in 1939 was to protect the Ukrainian and Belarusian national minorities 😂 Russia sometimes recognizes Belarusians and Ukrainians as a separate nation and sometimes as Russians, depending on the current policy 😂
Poles fought on D-Day on both sides of the conflict. Interestingly, many Silesians, Kashubians and other Polish national minorities who were forcibly incorporated into the Wehrmacht fought on the German side. As politically suspect, these people were sent to work in the rear, to protect facilities or guard fortifications in quiet areas. These soldiers surrendered without a fight. Proud Americans do not admit it today, but many bunkers on the beaches where they landed were not captured in combat, only the Polish crew surrendered them without firing a single shot. What is even more interesting, these soldiers were immediately conscripted into the Polish Army under a changed name (in order to save their family in Poland in the event of captivity) and constituted its most numerous and best-trained core. In addition, these soldiers knew the training, strategy and even German commands perfectly. This is why the Poles closed the encirclement at Falaise and did not let the Germans go. No one among the Allies hated the Germans as much as the Poles. Where the devil couldn't, the Allies sent Poles, for example Monte Cassino.
Yet still Brits gave blankets and mattresses with fleas - once Poles were loosened after Monte Cassino fight - at least that's what my grandpa said. He was driver of Vickers mkII tankette in flights for Italy. But they didn't like the idea to get bitten and infected, so they took it all out, and made big fire. "I didn't have fleas in Gebirgsjäger where I was made to fight, so I didn't want to get them when the war was about to end"
Hey, a Pole here, quick sidenote, from what i know the 1st polish armored division was actually meant to land on dday too, but it was decided that with all the heavy equipment its gonna be easier and better to deploy them to support the troops after the initial landing
With better equipment, logistics and support of the Allies Polish soldiers were able to fight fiercely and succesfully in several campaigns over the course of WWII. If we only had all of that in Semptember 1939 maybe instead of World War II we could now discuss about local conflict named Polish - Germany war of 1939...
My grandmothers uncle commanded Polish transport ship "Kraków" which transported troops and supplies. They were waiting for their turn unloading moored nearby the Omaha beach and witnessed the slaughter just from range of several hundred meters.
Here's one you missed. My Dad was an officer in the 29th Division. His Battalion (175 Regiment), 1st Battalion was made up of the Baltimore National Guard which consisted of of Polish Americans and Polish emigrants. At St Lo in the fight for the town some Germans demanded my father's company surrender. These were German conscripts from Polish areas. Dad told them where to put it. The 175th were in the 2nd wave but were in immediate combat.
"Poland this time were on the winning side".We,Poles thought that we were but we were not.Simply because of fact that we didn't won the war.Our so called allies betrayed us months before Normandy:Teheran Conference November 43,Yalta Conference January 44. We fought for freedom of others but nobody fought for ours and we were not sovereign and free as for 1989 when we gained sovereignty ourselfes. We were alone.We didn't have any allies during WW2.
Did anyone think that millions of Poles just stood there and watched the world fall apart? It is clear that they wanted to restore the country to the map, which, after 123 years of partition, had only 20 years of peace. Hence our anger as Poles, because what gets better will get worse over and over again. We had to do something and continue living
Some poles took a part in dday as infantry on the german side. Poland was under german rule so germans captured some men sent them to coastline. In most scenarios they stationed with 1 german officer so they switched side easily.
You have forgot about ORP Błyskawica (Lightning), the destroyer builded in Britain in 1937 and serve in Poland from 1937 that was called as the most Allied lucky destroyer, she survived Norway!, Dunkirk!(!), and convoys, D-Day, and battles with german destroyers, and even comunism era and You can see this famouse destroyer in Poland in Gdynia! And she took part in D-Day ---- Polish destroyers was buy from France after WW1, but 2 was build in Britain in 1937, Twin sisters ship; the ORP Błyskawica (Lightning), and ORP Grom (Thunder), both took part in Norway campaing... interesting situation is that the similar time ORP Blyskawica was attacked by 20' german He111's and she used maneuvers to escape and she was not hit by bombs (remember that she was called the most Allied lucky destroyer and she survived communism) but ORP Grom was just from law clouds attacked but just 1 single He111 and she sunk very fast, so fast that just 16 sailors survived, very close was 2 British destroyers older type because Brits used destroyers from 1920's so those 2 Polish was very modern, and ORP Grom sunk fast and those 2 British destroyers provide full fire from any gun on german positions, took from water all 16 survivors and both escaped fast because in this place were like sitting ducks. So .... ORP Blyskawica very lucky. Another thing is that we had yet destroyer ORP Piorun that founded Bismarck and provide contact and fire to drop on Bismarck bigger ships from Royal Navy And destroyer ORP Burza (thunderstorm), which sister ship ORP Wicher stay in Gdynia Gdansk area and sunk in 1939 by Stuka bombers. So ORP Burza was too at WWII service like convoys and she survived WWII she stay in Gdynia with ORP Blyskawica, and if.... communist not (could not) decide to scrapp ORP Burza we could have to view for us and people from Europe 2 types of WWII destroyers: mean 2 chemney British type of destroyer as it is ORP Błyskawica and French 3 chemney type of destroyer ORP Burza, until end of 1970's both stay in Gdynia harbour, not only but stay too transatlantic Batory buty communist decide to srapp 2 ships and now You can see only ORP Błyskawica. See 2 destroyers in one harbour with transatlantic Batory (Batory was used as a cargo and hospital ship at WWII) could be very nice.... like WWII harbour :) but communist decided to scrapp Batory and ORP Burza The ORP Dragon was only one cruiser in Polish navy. We had just destroyers and submarines, and cargo ships, even 2 transatlantic ships the Batory and Piłsudski, but Piłsudski get sea mine and sunk close to harbour Hull in Britain in 1939 (all passengers survived tooked on 2 Royal Navy destroyers) Sad is this story with scrapp Batory, because Batory was in use even in 1970's, and at that era 3 ships from WWII stay in one harbour. One sister ship sunk by one plane and one bomb (ORP Grom) and one was so lucky to survive attack of 20 bombers (ORP Błyskawica)... in navy and ships You can see Something unbeliveble
Polish historians researching Luftwaffe records have amended 303 squadrons kill claims to 58.8. Of these 38.8 were by polish pilots, 17 by a Czech, 3 by brit/Can, mostly slow light bombers. Kills by poles in the battle are about 60, and at least 2 friendly fire kills of raf planes/pilots. By the b of b raf ranks were full of new pilots having lost 500 pilots so up to that point in time, the poles were the remnants of an professional experienced cadre all put mainly into 2 squadrons. That's about 60 polish Kills out of 1883 Luftwaffe losses. Statistics hey : )
The number of 126 shot german planes during Battle of Britain is probably way too high. British research admit polish squadron took off ca. 50 enemy warplanes, and it means that 303. was... 3rd most effective unit in whole Battle (according to the same research)! The ORP Ślązak should be pronounced like "Shlonzak", that litteraly mean "The Silesian" and alluded to names of ships used in Polish Navy in pre-war period, when some vessels tooks names from people lives in different parts of Poland. It was symbolic unify after the partitions of Poland. Rest of pronunciation was very good, except "Zgorzelski" (>"Zgozhelski"), i'm impressed :)
Main Polish army was in Italy, to make D-day possible. In Italy Polish army was so ferce, many battles was officially win only thanks to polish army. In the end, opening first alliance front in europe.
What’s sad is there were several Polish generals who later became bartenders in Britain and died in obscurity. Mark Felton did a video about it.
A direct result of world wide communism and Stalin.
Dlaczego tak było? Jak jesteś wysokiej klasy specjalista wojskowym masz problem.z pracą. Nie tylko generałowie mieli problem , piloci też. Jeden z pilotów który bronił nieba w. Brytanii w roku 1940 po wojnie był taksówkarzem. Tylko ludzie krorzy mieli zawód cywilny mogli pracować, ale dużo musiało wyjechać z W. Brytania..Jan Zumbach as myśliwski dostal łaskawie dwa dni na pożegnanie się i wyjazd z Angli .
@@robertklimczak5630 And Zumbach went to Paris, where he ran a "Cabaret", later became " military advisor" in Africa... Pozdro z Szkocji
@@robertklimczak5630 Ale w tej niechęci powrotu do kraju, gdzie rządzili sowieci... ciekawe jakie były losy lotników czeskich, oni byli w podobnej łódce...
@@robertklimczak5630 Pamiętaj że po wojnie w której walczyło tylu ludzi miałeś masę takich specjalistów i pilotów na nowym rynku pracy. Inni alianccy weterani mieli lepiej bo mogli zostać w wojsku jeśli byli bardziej zasłużeni ale oczywiście Polskie wojsko na uchodźstwie już nie istniało więc Polaków to nie dotyczyło.
Fun fact: the first modern mine detector for use on land in field, was made by a polish military engineer, Josef Kosacki. He donated the invention for free to the british army, and 500 were very soon send to North Africa, to the british 8 army... That fact a long time not widely known, because he did it in part incognito, and in part because of common misspellings. His family was still in Poland, and he didnt wished to be renown not to hurt them. After the war, he managed to come to Poland, and again, he didnt wished it be known he was active in the army in west: the communist regime was hostile to these soldiers. So he managed to have a continueed cariier as engineer and scientist.
from what i know, a pole also invented kevlar (finally a reason to be proud of my country other than ww2 and the witcher)
@@TangoTheDamnMango Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of kevlar, was born to polish immigrants.
But on a related note, a wiki quote about bulletproof vests:
"Kazimierz Żegleń used Goodfellow's findings to develop a silk bulletproof vest at the end of the 19th century, which could stop the relatively slow rounds from black powder handguns.[11] The vests cost US$800 each in 1914, equivalent to $24,000 in 2023.[11]
A similar vest made by Polish inventor Jan Szczepanik in 1901 saved the life of Alfonso XIII of Spain when he was shot by an attacker. By 1900, US gangsters were wearing $800 silk vests to protect themselves.[12]
My father was liberated by the first Polish division in Breda in 44.
Long live Poland
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Hmm super cześć i chwała Bohaterom
Hmmm ? 1944-2024? 80????
@@mariolacioek2451what is bro trying to say
so kick in ass your Timmermans, who attack Poland very much since years.
Five years in combat, all fronts on all continents. On the ground, in the air, on the water: ❤ 🇵🇱
and.... Underground, very important.
Did they do anything in the Pacific or far east?
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Rząd polski, pod naciskiem Wielkiej Brytanii, wypowiedział wojnę Cesarstwu Japonii, ale było to wymuszone i tak właśnie traktowane przez oba państwa, które przed II Wojną Światową miały wręcz przyjazne stosunki, a w czasie wojny, mimo oficjalnego statusu wrogów, współpracowały wywiadowczo przeciwko ZSRR, który był wrogiem zarówno Japonii, jak i Polski, mimo że oficjalnie, po wybuchu wojny sowiecko- niemieckiej, Polacy znaleźli się po stronie sojuszników sowietów- jak widać historia potrafi pisać naprawdę ciekawe i dziwne scenariusze.
A skąd tak dobre stosunki polsko-japońskie przed II Wojną Światową? Japończycy po wybuchu rewolucji bolszewickiej w Rosji ewakuowali z Syberii setki polskich dzieci, sierot wojennych, i pomogli im wrócić do Polski po tym, jak odzyskała ona niepodległość w 1918 roku- takie rzeczy się pamięta. Z kolei już po wybuchu II Wojny Światowej japońscy dyplomaci wystawili dokumenty umożliwiające ucieczkę tysiącom Polaków zagrożonych śmiercią z rąk sowietów i niemców- i o tym też wiedziano w polskim rządzie w Londynie, dlatego "wojna polsko- japońska" była czysto symboliczna i ograniczyła się do JEDNEGO ŻOŁNIERZA :) .Polski pilot myśliwski, Witold Urbanowicz, został zaproszony przez Amerykanów do wstąpienia do działających w Chinach Latających Tygrysów, a że z natury był łowcą przygód z awanturniczą naturą, to zaproszenie przyjął.
I taka to była "wojna polsko- japońska".
@@planet_69 Not official, organized units but Polish soldiers, pilots, seamans.
@@planet_69 There were some famous Polish American pilots on pacific.
And at the end of the war, the Poles were NOT allowed to march in the London Victory Parade-Shameful!
Disgusting honestly
Do not forget that when the war ended Britain charged Poland for planes and their servicing, airfields, ammo, bombs, fuel, medical treatment, accommodation and food.
The total bill for that was 107 650 000 British Pounds. Unthinkable money if you consider that in 1945 a house in Britain would cost around 1000 Pounds. It was basically a way to steal the gold Poland has managed to miraculously transfer to Canada as soon as the war started.
That's why I will never have any respect for the British.
And British government gave a bill to us to pay rental for equpment and a fee for a fuel - all that efford, that gave nothing to Poland itself. And was paid not by new communist regime, but by disregarded Polish Government at Exile, with Polish gold reserves stored by pre-war Polish government - Brits just took it, saying: "We will grant you our matters settled with such small amount." Bollocks! 😒
@@TrustyEngineer Oh my! That’s disgusting!
@@TrustyEngineer When the war started Poland had 79,5 tons of gold still inside the country and miraculously managed to evacuate 71 tons of it with many buses and trains going south through Romania and all the way to Liban and than on a ship to France. Then when France started losing the gold was moved to Africa (today's Senegal and Mali). When Brits took over the Polish gold in 1944 they took 11 tons for "renting airstrips, hangars, planes, accommodation, uniforms, guns, etc. and for fuel, food, ammunition, bombs, plane servicing and medical care. That is despite the only way Poles even used the planes was to defend Britain from the German invasion.
The bill was 107 650 000 Pounds at the time when an average house in England would cost 1000 Pounds.
Britain is a disgusting country, especially its crown. I don't even know why some people even considered them as allies to Poland.
Always underrated. Always forggoten. Thank you for reminding the history and who were there heroes
Historia może i zapomniała, ale Bóg nie zapomni!
Thank you for speaking about the very important Polish contribution. My father, Sargent 1st Canadian Army, spoke well of them.
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One of my uncles named Bronislaw was a soldier in 1st Armoured Division. He actually was fighting under command of gen. Maczek since September campaign of 1939. My uncle was also fighting in France in the spring of 1940. After the war he married a Belgian woman and stayed in Belgium until his death. He received the Virtuti Military, highest military decoration in Poland.
Many of our soldiers stay in Netherland and Belgium, they were heroes there.. In Soviet Poland they were traitors to communist.
A kononowicz to wnuk Piłsudskiego 😅
Poland never capitulated in 1939. Polish government and military command shifted to Romania and then to France and finally to UK. There was never any capitulation document signed as in case of France in 1940.
Poland capitulated on 2nd October 1939.
Last units of Polish army capitulated on 5th October 1939.
Poles started the fight anew in 1940.
@@Northerner-Not-A-Doctor You are totally wrong. Poland never capitulated contrary to France. Polish authorities crossed border with Romania on 17 September 1939 on the day of Soviet invasion from the east.
Last regular unit of Polish army, Grupa Operacyjna "Polesie" capitulated on 6 October in Kock. On 2 October naval base at Hel capitulated but it wasn't whole Poland; it never happened. Rgds
@@mecx7322 Correct, Polish capital fell that day. Our spirit never. Poland is yet not dead as long as we live.
@@mecx7322 5th X was the last day of fights, 6th X was the day of signing the documents.
But ok, I indeed can't find the capitulation of Poland act, even after they betrayal of 17th IX by marshall Rydz-Śmigły there still was someone highest in command able to do so, gen. Kutrzeba, who signed act of of capitulation of Warsaw, not of the state.
@@Northerner-Not-A-Doctor Poland was the only significant country in Europe not to sign any general capitulation during WW2. This fact is not widely known today. You should think twice before calling marshall Rydz-Smigly a traitor. What other choices he had? Perhaps he would prefer to surrender to Germans and spend entire war in some prison in decent conditions. But on 17th September he was already in south eastern Poland, close to border with Romania. On 17th Soviets invaded and were moving swiftly in western direction. He knew very well what would happen in case of capture by Soviets. About 30000 Polish officers were executed in Katyn and other places in 1940. Perhaps his life would have been spared in case of some sort of collaboration or maybe he would end his life somewhere in Siberia; nobody knows. Decision to cross Romanian border was not an easy one. Some officers even decided to commit suicide on cross point in Zaleszczyki. Whole Polish government moved to Romania and later mostly to France and UK, where they were of some use for the Bristish.
For a thousand years, Poland stood on the battlements of our civilization. Hail to Poland!
Thank you for this endorsement of the Polish war effort. I'm an old man in Eastern Kentucky but I know of the gallantry and determination of Polish military forces, from their, perhaps, history changing fighting during the Battle of Vienna against the Ottoman Turks to their contribution in WWII.
Not only military forces. Everyone was engaged in fighting, even civilians, even kids! A lot of civilians had to fight for their live
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May the Polish people remain free!
The speed bump now has teeth
We aren't
I heard once refer to the land Poland has historically now and then occupied as "the worst Civilization game start location": impossible to defend because it's plains to the east and west, where two historically hostile civilizations have spawned (Germany and Russia), and blocked in the north-south axis by sea and mountains.
@@faenethlorhalien Luckily, for now, Germany is a friend.
@@GaryArmstrongmacgh Read T H Tetens' "Germany Plots with the Kremlin". You may wonder if that is true.
Poland being able to keep it together during and after WWII is kind of shocking.
Also before the war, honestly 🤷
What do you mean?
@@mahu5766 Polish-Bolshevik war (1919-1921) mentioned in the material and land disputes with Lithuania, Ukraine, Czechia and Germany (as after ww1 Poland has been re-established after 123 of occupation) not played very nicely by Poland, we did lots of shitty stuff :/
@@weles4254 Luckily no disputes with Sweden 😀
@@mecx7322 wonder how would war with Sweden go if not for Russia and Cossacks? xD it's easy to stab in the back, as formally polish king in 1650s was also king of Sweden but got f-up by his kin (if I remember correctly, had priority in inheritance but was Christian and most of Sweden was Protestant - I might be mistaken, (i don't remember if that was reasons of this war but i recall situation like that in history due to polish free election of the time) so they preferred his uncle or something like that not mentioning land disputes over Livonia) but also the Polish king was shitty at a time and most of cities just surrendered and got looted for that if you refering to that :/
Anyways with Sweden there were no common borders so no reason to be salty
Thank you for spreading the knowledge about the Polish contribution!
Dziękuję bardzo, dobra robota!
One tiny clarification that comes to my mind is that I'm pretty sure that the three BGs on that tactical map of the battle of the Falaise pocket stand for "battle groups", not brigades.
Thanks for posting this. My father was Polish Cavalry at the outbreak of WW2 then Armii Krajowe until arrested by the Gestapo in a general roundup in 1943 after which he was a slave labourer until his own liberation in 1945. Always nice to hear about the contribution of the Polish forces serving in the Western militaries.
Niech ze y je Polska!
Great video once again! Only thing you missed was the panther tank the Polish donated to the city of Breda, which still stands there today als a monument!
My Grandfather fought in 1st Armoured. I've been to Breda and General Maczek's grave. Cheers!
Thumbs up for pointing out that in 1939 Soviet Russia was an ally of the German Nazis in invading Poland. On September 17, they entered Poland as agreed upon in the Ribbentrop-MołotowPact.
Pakt Ribbentrop-Mołotow
@@piotrq2005 Corrected. Late night commentary :)
Your pronunciation of Polish names has improved dramatically, and is mostly correct. Congrats!
Not matter how big the polish contribution to winning this war was they still deserve big gratitude and respect from other ally nations
My grandfather flew close air support during D-Day landings (302nd Polish squadron). At that time he, along with his flight lead managed to sink 2 midget submarines. Later he went on to provide CAP in and around Falaise pocket and strafed targets of opportunity
It's still sad that Churchill didn't allow polish troops to take part in Victory parade after ww2
Parade is just... parade. Sjmbolic moment. More devastating was tha Churchil and Roosvelt were feeding russian bear and gave half of Europe to Stalin for free.
Not his decision to make as he was no longer the Prime Minister as he lost power in July 1945. Stalin pressured the Labour Party government to not allow the Poles to participate in the 1946 parade.
Yes it is sad but more sad is that we didn't really have reason to celebrate victory. We were sold to Stalin.
Thank you so much for this recognition. Poland was very hard done by during and not least after the war but such work as yours here make us proud and appreciated.
Hello Hilbert. One for your girlfriend's country.
I saw my Polish colleague this week for the first time in a while. He usually mentions the Polish who fought in Italy, as I commented before, but this was interesting as it does not get mentioned as much.
You forgot to mention the Polish contribution to the Battle of Narvik in Norwegian campaign in 1940.
There is more missing info. but I guess the focus was on D-day involvement.
with Carton de Wiart in charge ;)
Thank you for the acknowledgement. Despite the fact that Poland was abandoned to the Soviets...
Well said, I find it amusing how Americans portray themselves as saviours of the world while they sacrificed half of Europe to communists
In that case - Ja również serdecznie dziękuję za Twoją pracę, szanowny Hilbercie. Trzymaj się, życzę Ci wytrwałości w szlifowaniu języka.
Poland where did You fought in WW2?
Poland: *Yes*
YESSSS!!
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They fought everywhere!!
Everywhere
nincompoop
Thank you. It reminds me I need to visit some places in Netherlands and Belgium. Some relatives from grandpas side were left there.
glory and memory for the fallen, 200 years to the living and long live FREE POLAND
Huge respect for the pronunciations! Dziękujemy!!!
Thank you for the video
On top of that the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 has engaged approx. 25k German troops that could not have been deployed elsewhere and disabled a vital transport hub between eastern and western front, right in face of Soviets approaching from the east.
And then Soviets didn't allow Allied use of their airports to send aid to Warsaw and just sat on the eastern side of Vistula while Warsaw was being burned down
@@nacelnikprosiak1260 Except Americans with air base in Poltava in Ukraine. USAAF performed two huge air drops during Warsaw Uprising.
Maybe Lithuania next. My brother's scoutmaster was a Lithuanian Airforce officer, their Airforce was destroyed in the first week, and he would fight with Lithuanian underground.
what about Ponary "fighting" ?
@@tomaszser470 Jpegs confuse you.
Ponary "fighting":lithuanian pro hitler criminals. Yes it would be good to see a video about it.Best regards from Cape Town
@@darkopuric569 Comrade, the devil English language start sentences with capital letters and end their evil speech with punctuation. Dah! Glory to the Apostle of Mosckoba! Dah!
@@darkopuric569 Tired of being tracked on line?Top GOP Congressional Leaders admit Russian propaganda has infected their parties voters
Thank you for the video. A small correction - it is actually ŚLĄZAK - the spelling makes a big difference in the pronunciation.
There is also other contribution - camera operator responsible for Landing on Omaha beach scenes in "Saving Private Rayan" was polish
Thank you for showing other countries contributions to the D day achievement.
you have really good polish pronounciation, you sound like you speak english as first language but then started learning polish at around age 10
Ma polska dziewczynę ;) jak każdy
@@kanalnr1 ahaaa to by wyjasnialo. Ale na serio dobrze mowi nie?
The light cruiser mentioned, ORP Dragon, was hit by a mini-uboat, badly damaged, and thus, used as part of port installation as a provisoric wave-breaker.
Because of this video and when I looked for more information I learned today that over 900,000 American Poles were in the United states Armed Forces in World War II. Army and Navy records list 20 percent as American Poles. The names of Poles were heard throughout the Marine Corps, Army and Navy, as well as the WACS, SPARS, and WAVES. Throughout the United States recruiting offices stated that 50 percent of their volunteers were of Polish descent and were “among the first to enlist.” Some of the men who attained the rank of General in World War II were: John Wisniewski, Joseph Berzynski, and John Rataj. 19.400 Poles served in the RAF, across Fighter, Bomber and Coastal commands. 300 (Polish) Squadron, serving with Bomber Command, suffered the highest number of deaths of any Bomber Command unit. 5% of the pilots involved in the Battle of Brittain were Polish (145 in total), but were responsible for 12% of total victories, with 303 (Polish) Fighter Squadron recognised as the most successful of any Allied squadron.
I am Dutch and the Netherlands are grateful to the contribution and the sacrifice the Poles made in the Liberation of the Netherlands.
One of your best and most poignent Hilbert. May all of our Greatest Generation (even the Soviets and Chinese armies) from around the world be praised.
Thank you for this video :) I am a proud pole and my grandfather's brother died in Warsaw uprising in August 44 ...
One the best history video done .great job here.just remember Polish division 303 in UK fight Germans on the air then on victory parade they even didn’t invite by UK government so they come back to Poland and most of them was just killed by KGB .
as a Pole thank you for making people aware of ur contribution during the war
Good video. Subbed. 💖👍👍👍
4:55 you actually nailed it bro.
ORP is the Polish equivalent of HMS or USS; Okret Rzeczypospolitej Polski
*Polskiej
@@ohajohaha Well, I was close. Thanks
@@simple-commentator-not-rea7345 it is a very common mistake.
@@ohajohaha =(War)Ship of the Republic of Poland
@@PKowalski2009 bruh your nickname
It was the polish military that stopped the mongols sweeping through Europe have a very strong military history or so took part in arnhem with the paratroops
If by Mongols you mean the Bolsheviks, then that's correct, but if you mean the real Mongols, we Poles didn't stop them, we have been fucked up in every war with them, the Mongols were stopped by internal problems
The Mongols could never have "swept" through Europe.
Interesting, never as question I had asked before
We also took part in Market Garden
Market garden was Montgomery's failure, but he had not the guts to admit it.
I love how we completely ignored the fact that the Soviets were literal allies with Germany. They ussd the war as an excuse to exapnd. And thus the cold war started afterwards. If only they got some sort of consequences for that.
Who ignored that?
My wife is Polish and grew up in Commie times. Her school taught her that the Soviets invaded Poland "to save Poland from the Germans". Everybody knew it was a lie.
@@jugbywellington1134 sadly not everyone knew that. Especially lower class, living in the area that didn't have direct experience with Red Army. Also the memories of the Germans and what they did were so strong that people didn't want to think that there might be yet another evil... Ofc the Communist regime was hated by most, it was brutal and people still remembered Soviet crimes from the interwar period. But in the second decade after the war many people were just stuck with the narration they were being taught in school. My grandfather was always saying that Katyń Massacre was done by the Soviets...most people were thinking that he was a conspiracy theorist or that he just shouldn't say things like that or he would be arrested (which is true).
@@jugbywellington1134 The official reason for Russia's invasion in 1939 was to protect the Ukrainian and Belarusian national minorities 😂
Russia sometimes recognizes Belarusians and Ukrainians as a separate nation and sometimes as Russians, depending on the current policy 😂
Stalin and Churchill planned commitment not to allow Poles to take part in the London victory parade 😢
Poles fought on D-Day on both sides of the conflict. Interestingly, many Silesians, Kashubians and other Polish national minorities who were forcibly incorporated into the Wehrmacht fought on the German side. As politically suspect, these people were sent to work in the rear, to protect facilities or guard fortifications in quiet areas. These soldiers surrendered without a fight. Proud Americans do not admit it today, but many bunkers on the beaches where they landed were not captured in combat, only the Polish crew surrendered them without firing a single shot. What is even more interesting, these soldiers were immediately conscripted into the Polish Army under a changed name (in order to save their family in Poland in the event of captivity) and constituted its most numerous and best-trained core. In addition, these soldiers knew the training, strategy and even German commands perfectly. This is why the Poles closed the encirclement at Falaise and did not let the Germans go. No one among the Allies hated the Germans as much as the Poles. Where the devil couldn't, the Allies sent Poles, for example Monte Cassino.
Most of them abandoned the Wermaht and rejoined the gen. Anders army after the battle of Montecassino.
Yet still Brits gave blankets and mattresses with fleas - once Poles were loosened after Monte Cassino fight - at least that's what my grandpa said. He was driver of Vickers mkII tankette in flights for Italy. But they didn't like the idea to get bitten and infected, so they took it all out, and made big fire. "I didn't have fleas in Gebirgsjäger where I was made to fight, so I didn't want to get them when the war was about to end"
Brits didn’t care about Poles. They always treated Poland as second class country.
4:45 mj. General Stanisław Maczek was a Polish tank commander who never lost a battle in ww2.
Where was him in 1939?
@@slavasvoboda8023 He fought and won every battle in 1939. He devised a counter to blitzkrieg.
Where did you find this map? 5:37
exellent work my friend and dziekuje bardzo 🙂 greetings from Melbourne 🙂
Hey, a Pole here, quick sidenote, from what i know the 1st polish armored division was actually meant to land on dday too, but it was decided that with all the heavy equipment its gonna be easier and better to deploy them to support the troops after the initial landing
We fought all over Europe! Monte Cassino, liberation of Berlin, skies of Britain, Warsaw Uprising etc.
The trio of mathematicians that initially cracked Enigma was from my home city - Poznań!
May i ask could you make a video about general winkelman?
Dziękuję! :)
Fun fact: The ORP Slazak using Polish signs was ORP Ślązak, Which translatest to „Silesian man”.
Remember Sean Connery's character in A Bridge Too Far (the general)?
That dude was Polish. Got his polish paratrooper brigade to come along, too.
Stanisław Sosabowski?
With better equipment, logistics and support of the Allies Polish soldiers were able to fight fiercely and succesfully in several campaigns over the course of WWII. If we only had all of that in Semptember 1939 maybe instead of World War II we could now discuss about local conflict named Polish - Germany war of 1939...
Finally, someone admitted that Poles made a significant contribution to crack Enigma.
you forgot about gen sosabowski and parachuting during battle of arnhem.
There was also an airborne brigade of gen. Sosabowski that participated in Market Garden.
Thank You SirFOR READING !!!
Polish Power!!
My grandmothers uncle commanded Polish transport ship "Kraków" which transported troops and supplies. They were waiting for their turn unloading moored nearby the Omaha beach and witnessed the slaughter just from range of several hundred meters.
How USA treated Poland after 2WW is just disgusting. Sold out Poland to its worst enemy
Roosevelt had no interest in Poland, Truman even less.
@@mecx7322 his game of interests ruined whole eastern Europe and maybe even the Western
That's no small number of men under arms.
Tu Byłem Tony Halik 2O24.
Pozdrawiam wszystkich serdecznie.
Viewers should also know how the Allies betrayed Poland.
you forget about gen Sosabowski brigade , first polish paratroopers who landing in Normandy
No, UK finally forced Poles to give them this unit, but it was too late to make it ready for a drop.
I always feel sorry for Polish people born in 1900 first World War II world war and died during the communism
Thank You it was nice to remind Polish part in Europe liberation...
Here's one you missed. My Dad was an officer in the 29th Division. His Battalion (175 Regiment), 1st Battalion was made up of the Baltimore National Guard which consisted of of Polish Americans and Polish emigrants. At St Lo in the fight for the town some Germans demanded my father's company surrender. These were German conscripts from Polish areas. Dad told them where to put it. The 175th were in the 2nd wave but were in immediate combat.
Poland fought on every front during 2nd world war. Poland was the 4th greatest power on ally side!
"Poland this time were on the winning side".We,Poles thought that we were but we were not.Simply because of fact that we didn't won the war.Our so called allies betrayed us months before Normandy:Teheran Conference November 43,Yalta Conference January 44.
We fought for freedom of others but nobody fought for ours and we were not sovereign and free as for 1989 when we gained sovereignty ourselfes.
We were alone.We didn't have any allies during WW2.
Did anyone think that millions of Poles just stood there and watched the world fall apart? It is clear that they wanted to restore the country to the map, which, after 123 years of partition, had only 20 years of peace. Hence our anger as Poles, because what gets better will get worse over and over again. We had to do something and continue living
My man forgot about ORP Błyskawica...
"I am a Pole" is a very good replacement for "Karma's a bitch"
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Polish soldiers after the association of Gen.Sikorski by MI6 stayed indoors thanks to the British
Poland mentioned!
Some poles took a part in dday as infantry on the german side. Poland was under german rule so germans captured some men sent them to coastline. In most scenarios they stationed with 1 german officer so they switched side easily.
and Slovaks from the South, 1939
Do Słowaków nic nie mamy ,byli panstwem wasalem hitlera.
As for enigma, please check who were Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski in its context.
You have forgot about ORP Błyskawica (Lightning), the destroyer builded in Britain in 1937 and serve in Poland from 1937 that was called as the most Allied lucky destroyer, she survived Norway!, Dunkirk!(!), and convoys, D-Day, and battles with german destroyers, and even comunism era and You can see this famouse destroyer in Poland in Gdynia! And she took part in D-Day
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Polish destroyers was buy from France after WW1, but 2 was build in Britain in 1937, Twin sisters ship; the ORP Błyskawica (Lightning), and ORP Grom (Thunder), both took part in Norway campaing... interesting situation is that the similar time ORP Blyskawica was attacked by 20' german He111's and she used maneuvers to escape and she was not hit by bombs (remember that she was called the most Allied lucky destroyer and she survived communism) but ORP Grom was just from law clouds attacked but just 1 single He111 and she sunk very fast, so fast that just 16 sailors survived, very close was 2 British destroyers older type because Brits used destroyers from 1920's so those 2 Polish was very modern, and ORP Grom sunk fast and those 2 British destroyers provide full fire from any gun on german positions, took from water all 16 survivors and both escaped fast because in this place were like sitting ducks. So .... ORP Blyskawica very lucky.
Another thing is that we had yet destroyer ORP Piorun that founded Bismarck and provide contact and fire to drop on Bismarck bigger ships from Royal Navy
And destroyer ORP Burza (thunderstorm), which sister ship ORP Wicher stay in Gdynia Gdansk area and sunk in 1939 by Stuka bombers. So ORP Burza was too at WWII service like convoys and she survived WWII she stay in Gdynia with ORP Blyskawica, and if.... communist not (could not) decide to scrapp ORP Burza we could have to view for us and people from Europe 2 types of WWII destroyers: mean 2 chemney British type of destroyer as it is ORP Błyskawica and French 3 chemney type of destroyer ORP Burza, until end of 1970's both stay in Gdynia harbour, not only but stay too transatlantic Batory buty communist decide to srapp 2 ships and now You can see only ORP Błyskawica. See 2 destroyers in one harbour with transatlantic Batory (Batory was used as a cargo and hospital ship at WWII) could be very nice.... like WWII harbour :) but communist decided to scrapp Batory and ORP Burza
The ORP Dragon was only one cruiser in Polish navy. We had just destroyers and submarines, and cargo ships, even 2 transatlantic ships the Batory and Piłsudski, but Piłsudski get sea mine and sunk close to harbour Hull in Britain in 1939 (all passengers survived tooked on 2 Royal Navy destroyers)
Sad is this story with scrapp Batory, because Batory was in use even in 1970's, and at that era 3 ships from WWII stay in one harbour.
One sister ship sunk by one plane and one bomb (ORP Grom) and one was so lucky to survive attack of 20 bombers (ORP Błyskawica)... in navy and ships You can see Something unbeliveble
Wow, that's some really nice pronunciation
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*HOLD on a second !!!!*
*There is nothing to say ..... about Polish Paratroopers at ARNHEM under general Stanislaw Sosabowski ??* 🎯
there is 0 (zero) about polish mine finder! Now called "metal detector"
Can anyone explain why there was "The" polish squadron? what does the quote mark mean?
He would be perfect for a Pole with that accent
thx
Polish historians researching Luftwaffe records have amended 303 squadrons kill claims to 58.8. Of these 38.8 were by polish pilots, 17 by a Czech, 3 by brit/Can, mostly slow light bombers. Kills by poles in the battle are about 60, and at least 2 friendly fire kills of raf planes/pilots.
By the b of b raf ranks were full of new pilots having lost 500 pilots so up to that point in time, the poles were the remnants of an professional experienced cadre all put mainly into 2 squadrons.
That's about 60 polish Kills out of 1883 Luftwaffe losses.
Statistics hey : )
POLSKA GUROM!!
You should have mentioned the several thousand Polish Officers murdered by Russian forces in the Katyn forest.
Poles didn't found enigma machine, they were the first to brake it's code and then later the actual enigma machine was captured by allies
The number of 126 shot german planes during Battle of Britain is probably way too high. British research admit polish squadron took off ca. 50 enemy warplanes, and it means that 303. was... 3rd most effective unit in whole Battle (according to the same research)!
The ORP Ślązak should be pronounced like "Shlonzak", that litteraly mean "The Silesian" and alluded to names of ships used in Polish Navy in pre-war period, when some vessels tooks names from people lives in different parts of Poland. It was symbolic unify after the partitions of Poland.
Rest of pronunciation was very good, except "Zgorzelski" (>"Zgozhelski"), i'm impressed :)
Main Polish army was in Italy, to make D-day possible. In Italy Polish army was so ferce, many battles was officially win only thanks to polish army. In the end, opening first alliance front in europe.