MY HONEST OPINION - UNTOLD BATTLE OF BRITAIN
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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Untold Battle of Britain talks about the incredible polish pilots and how they helped Britain win the war against Hilter. Such a great documentary.
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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❤️
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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
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
CZEŚĆ I CHWAŁA BOHATEROM 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
From the heart of Scandinavia: Poland is born of honor!
Bóg Honor Ojczyzna
Bardzo Ci dziękuję
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
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.
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
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.😂
We are very very Thankful for all of the polish raf team who sacrificed there lives for everyone today's.
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
Respect, Love Gratitude and recognition for Polish Heroes.
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.
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..
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.
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.
Thank you for wonderful video/ documentary
I am Polish Canadian and I could feel remarkable pride of being part of that nation.
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).
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.
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...
Walczyli zwyciężali ginęli a gdy wojnę wygrali Angole potraktowali jak bezpańskie psy:(((
Angole nie wygrali tej wojny. W jej wyniku utracili swoje imperium. Wojnę wygrało Wall street
@@pawelink1287 To żadna w istocie różnica, tylko przesiadka przy sterze NWO.
Dyskusja dyskusja a polska homofobia wychodzi,po co używać wulgarny język.?
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.
My Polacy klękamy tylko przed Bogiem , co Nas nie zabije to nas wzmocni
I Janem Pawłem
Nie przezywaj.
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 🙏
(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 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
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
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 👍🇵🇱🇬🇧
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
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 ...
I am from Poland and I am proud of it .
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
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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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.
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.
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.
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
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!!!🤣🤣😂
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 !
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.
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
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
Respect to those Pilots that sacrifice their lives. Great upload
Thank you for watching sis❤️
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
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. ✌️♥️🇬🇧
Some ignorant comments on here by young folks that are uneducated about past things and assume we all are just as ignorant.The Poles fought with such heart because Poland had been carved up by Germany and Russia and as a result we declared war on Germany so who owes who now then? My generation were well aware of the contribution of Polish fighters in ww2 and welcomed them in ww2 and afterwards .
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...
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
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 UA-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
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
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. 💪❤✌️ 🇵🇱🤝🇬🇧
Dziękuję, z Polski.
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.
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..
This is just one of brave History a Polish pilots.!! Check more.. You See how many that episode is Where the Polish soldier to do.!! Not Just pilots.. Many front, many History and many a brave soldier from Poland fight and win there Where no one can..
Poland Save Europe not Just one time, not Just two Times.. Many more!! We pay Blood for another Country.. We Save many milion civilians people.. Where be time fight for US Homeland.! We are betrayed.. Not the first time.. Not the second Time.. Always we must walk alone.!! That all the Europe thanks.! Ehh..
Tak ,Polacy ratowali najwięcej narodowośc żydowską a teraz żydzi plują na nas i okazuje sie ,że to nie Niemcy ale Polacy są największymi antysemitami taka jest ich wdzięczność i na całym świecie rozpowszechniają kłamliwe oświadczenia, A chodzi o bezspadkowe mienie ,które Polska miałaby zapłacić Izraelowi ,tylko pokazcie mi kraj gdie obowiązywałby ten przepis prawny, ale lobby żydowskie przeforsowało to w USA -USTAWA 447.Ciekaw jestem co dzieje się z mieniem bezspadkowym w USA ? Ciekawostka Manhatan to ziemie Polaka Puławskiego a dalsza rodzina do dziś żyje ,ale rząd USA do tej pory nie odpowiedział na zapytania spadkobierców.
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.
wojtek polish soldier bear 😎
Wojtek 🐻🍻
This is a good short video on Wojtek ua-cam.com/video/x94BqWK1Ks4/v-deo.html
Thank you for you appreciation of our battle of Britain and our Polish freinds ,303,,squadron God bless them
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Polish troops of whom there were thousands were sold out because Poland was given to USSR....Sad at the beginning of the war Germany invaded from the West and Russia from the East..The Russians executed 9000 Polish officers
So sad
@@GloreeyahOnuh Poland was not, "Given" to anyone. As was said at the time Poland was not mine to give so how could I give it - the Russians just took it.
20k, not 9000...
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.
Thank you very much for showing these documents about our compatriots. We have three principles in our blood: God Horor Homeland. I recommend a short film about Our History ua-cam.com/video/Q88AkN1hNYM/v-deo.html
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.
Many thanks to you for that legendary Polish power 🎉
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.
Dziękuję za pamięć naszych bohaterów .
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 🇵🇱
a shameful end for us brits, as we turned our backs on true friends and allies
"turned our backs", in what way Graham?
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 left the polish to face the onslaught of Russian occupation, without our help or anybody
@@grahamcheetham2146 Graham, Britain's guarantee of Poland's borders was a symbolic "line in the sand" aimed at the nazis. Britain was first and foremost a naval power, (actually the no.1 sea power at the time). The Royal Navy commenced her blockade of Germany from the very outset of war, and prosecuted the kriegsmarine to the best of its abilities.
Britain's peacetime army numbered 225,000 (As compared to the German army's 1.7 million) and was spread across her empire. It took until 1942 for Britain to mobilise its reserves (The Territorial army), and fully initiate its conscription, which swelled its numbers to 900,000. There was Nothing Britain could do on land in the 6 weeks that saw Poland crushed between Nazis and the USSR.
Poland's tragedy is NOT that Britain couldn't assist in it's land based struggle, but is firmly based on its historic, geographical location placed inbetween a nazi "rock" and a Soviet "hard place".
Don't be so eager to attempt to pour "shame" on the UK..... 500000 Brits died in a war started to topple the nazi oppressors of Poland.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 In occupied Poland it is estimated to have been about 1300000 people with further 200000 Poles died in forced labor camp in Germany, that is far from been toppled by UK losses. Though most important is not who lost or sacrifice more in Graham comment, but fact that at expanse of Polish solders and their country Britain and USA tried to pleased Stalin for their own benefits.
@@lukaszmajer8472 Why did we bother to spill the blood of even one Brit? It was not our fight, we could have just left you to fester under nazi rule, but instead we were the springboard for your eventual release from nazi terror. It was not the UK's fault that you struggled under nazi and communist tyranny for 50 years. We were the catalyst for your freedom, accept the truth.
Once again without any other bullshit, please detail EXACTLY what were Britain and the US going to do to get 12.4 million troops of the red army leave Poland in 1945? Cmon Einstein, lets see if you have the masterplan that the western allies never thought of?
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.
Not knowing English was a difficulty, but there were many other Country pilots ready to fight. . One quarter of all the pilots came from overseas mainly the Empire. |Australia New Zealand South africa etc. The Royal Airforce was full of jargon, some very funny and definitely all understatewd in its contempt for terrifying danger..
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.
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Po wojnie Brytyjczycy potrącili sobie należność za sprzęt na którym Polacy bronili ich kraju z polskich rezerw złota zdeponowanych w Anglii
get that message in inglish for impact FFS they can`t speak blody forein language
Tonnes of polish gold we paid to fight germans...are still missing...no returned to Poland
Tak polacy walczyli oddawali życie ,a za to jeszcze musieliśmy zapłacić złotem ,to wdzięczność i podziękowanie Angoli !!!!!! Nawet w paradzie zwycięstwa Polaków nie było , bo nie zaproszono !!!!!😡 NIE BYLIŚMY GODNI !!!!!!
Or anything else for that matter
Taka byla umowa polskiego rzadu z brytyjskim, tyle, ze zolnierze, poloci i marynarze szkoleni na wyspach mieli docelowo walczyc o Polske, a nie Afryke Pln., UK, wolne Wlochy, Francje, czy Niderlandie. Tylko nieco ponad 100 cichociemnych mialo taka okazje. Tak. W tym kontekscie zostalismy wydymani.
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 UA-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 understand what the Polish did, I was trained in my apprenticeship by Polish engineers and we were good friendacisis
Przypominam, że w 303 mieliśmy Fratiska, Czecha. Latał z czeską flagą.
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.
Worst thing is, that even now, many history teachers in US believe, that Poland did not fight in a WWII. When I studied in a Liberty HS in NYC, I had an Irish world history teacher, mr.Fallon. He taught his students that there was no country as Poland so Polish soldiers couldn't fight in a WWII. Also he was teaching us that Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikołaj Kopernik) was RUSSIAN born in GERMANY.
Wow… 😮
that teacher was antipolish definetly.
Most of the English Squadrons that fought were not mentioned in the documentary. Nothing wrong with covering the Polish squadrons I love them. But how is it Untold history when you can see many documentaries and videos about it and they were in the Big 1969 movie?
Yep, Polish pilots made up one of the major pilot storylines in the film. What else was the film supposed to do? Hand over the whole film to them? 2,936 Fighter Command pilots took in the battle, of which 145 were Polish. In terms of numbers, the Poles are over represented in the film.
@@thevillaaston7811 Over representation..... same on the telly, you'd think the BBC was based in Nairobi and Karachi.
I learn a lot from your channel, thank you Gloweeyah!!!!
Oh I’m glad you do. Bless you ❤️
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.
This was long but interesting,
I am learning alot about Britain through this channel, never knew most of this. It's like a movie but it all happened .
God bless all the heroes.
This people really went through alot
"The polish men like to show off", she said 😂
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@@GloreeyahOnuh well this is not your's video this is a jusy few screens of "fuckig foreginers "movie short film about battle of england that hoe they call heorous and we paid for it ( tones of polish gold in uk( never returned! )
ask veterans Polish veterans
'I am learning alot about Britain through this channel'
I see... And what are you learning?..
If one knows how hard and superb training Polish pilots had in Dęblin Flight Academy than there would be no surprise they where so effective. Those pilots where pure elite from society.
Englishmen charged Poland for 3 500 000 GBP in gold in 1946 for using their planes to protect the UK!
Englishmen still have the Polish gold (a part of 80 tons transport) - imperial th1eves with 7ewish leader: Winston Churchill, who sold Poland on Yalta Conference with another 7ew: Franklin D. Roosevelt to Soviets - the worst combination of treachery.
So much whinging in these threads about Poles having to pay for the weapons & supplies etc they received from Britain during WW2. The Polish government in exile AGREED in 1940 to pay for its ALL its equpiment & supplies provided by Britain in EXACTLY the same way that Britain repaid tens of BILLIONS (not millions) of dollars to the US for equipment and services it supplied to us during WW2, and which we only finished repaying in 2006. Is modern day Poland a country of freeloaders?
I though you Poles were meant to be all about "honour"? I hate to see such honourable people in such turmoil over this.... let me help put your mind at rest. Contact the Polish consulate in London and discuss it with them, they will tell you EXACTLY the same as I have done above.
Looks like some people have NO ideas what even honour word means...we fight for you and save you country and many lives..
so why you still celebrate end of second WW2 without any polish weterans or polish people in public place..tv or events since 1940
About polish gold well a lot are not back...as should..thats your "honour" but ok
your nation never even say one word thank you..but ok you got a "honour"
To call even 303 fuckin foreginers...
Best idea is to ask polish wetetans and thems family's about whole truth about this history.. if you brave enough.
asking any consulat is like you ask any tv for truth news
Truth is painfull we safe your country and many more..but honoured people make colonialism... alomst forgot it
But what we know... facts are facts
if you know where to ask and search for truth
@@xxxpostronieprawdy6461 You didn't "fight for us" you were continuing your own fight against the oppressors of your fellow countryman, and the refuge and equipment we British supplied you with enabled you to do that. Did the Poles who fought and died at Monte Cassino die solely for the liberty of Italy? Or to drive back the murderous nazi regime that was continuing to slaughter Polish civilians? Would Poland have declared war on Nazi Germany if the Nazis had decided to strike west initially in 1939? Hmmmm.
As for believing Poland was "excluded" from the 1946 "Victory Parade", here is what actually happened. Britain while it was organising her Victory Parade sent out invitations to the embassies of EACH AND EVERY nation who had fought as part of the British armed forces and her allies. The invite was for each country to send a "flag party" to represent their nation who would all march together providing a colourful spectacle similar to the opening of the olympic games, with the wind unfurling the large number of national flags. Two parties, the Yugoslavs and the USSR for whatever reason, turned down the invites out of hand, and Poland ALONE was unhappy with how the parade was to be organised, and pressed for a larger contingent from their country to mirror her national pride. It was thought unfair that any one country should have a larger representation that any other, and with the date of the parade approaching and only Poland unhappy with the organisation of the parade, they effectively "took their bat and ball home" and THEY CHOSE to not attend, as invites were sent out to individuals to make up a flag party, but none appeared for the parade.
On top of which the UK and US were still concurrently negotiating with Stalin over the future of Poland and Eastern Europe. The Soviets were HIGHLY mistrustful of nationalist movements, especially on the borders of the Soviet Union, and had refused to initiate the free elections in Poland that they had earlier promised at Yalta in Feb 1945. The last thing needed at that point of negotiations was a LARGE Polish national contingent in the UK victory parade...it would almost appear to be intentionally pissing off the Soviets, and that is ANOTHER reason why the UK insisted that Poland would not have a larger contingent in the UK victory parade than other nations.
As for "Polish gold" read my reply above, if modern Poles believe they should have ignored their previously signed agreement from April 1940 and refused to pay, it shows how contemporary Poles are pissing all over the honour that their grandparents clung so tightly to.
Luckily for the memory of the Polish veterans who valiantly carried on the fight after the fall of their own country, We in Britain continue to this day to honour and pay tribute to their memory, as they are STILL the only country I have ever seen in 40 years of attending remembrance day parades in the UK who are honoured individually by name. I have NEVER heard or seen a wreath laid solely in tribute to Australians, Canadians, Indians or any of the other allied countries, commonwealth or otherwise. We still value their contribution.
Wow! This is a long one
Welldone👌🏾
Thank you sis❤️
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.
We, Poles had a big lesson. If you can count - count on youself. Today we should remind ourselves this lesson. Noone will help you if you don't help yourself first. Thus - EU and NATO can be useful ONLY when We, Poles can help ourselves to be as strong as humanly possible AND if the EU and NATO has an INTEREST, a BUSINESS to help. In Foreign Affairs there is no morals, no emotion, no sympathy - just Business and RAW POWER. Period.
Well said Johnny.
I don't know why this video refers to the 'untold' story of the Polish pilots of the Battle of Britain. I've read several accounts of the Battle of Britain and every single one of them mentions the Polish squadrons. This video does not mention 302 Squadron, the second Polish squadron involved in the Battle of Britain. They became operational at the same time as 303 and saw action against the raids on London in September 1940. There were also Polish pilots scattered among other RAF squadrons.
12:20: OMG! Billy Drake! I've read about him in a book 'Fighter Pilot', written by Paul Richey who flew with him in No.1 Squadron. Billy shot down two German aircraft over France in 1940, but was badly wounded and spent most of the Battle of Britain in hospital. He finished the war with 20 aircraft destroyed.