VE Day 75 years later: The real story of how Britain won WW2

[Bodd]

If I'm not mistaken they had the highest number of kills of any squadron, now they really didn't like Germans, saw too many of their family hanging from lamp posts I suppose.

They had more air time fighting the Germans before invasion.

Watch the Film Hurricane.
Makes me proud of The Polish blood in the family.

It's OK to be proud of blood.

 

[noseall]

It's OK to be proud of blood.

So you say. English first - British second - Polish third...?

 

[Bodd]

So you say. English first - British second - Polish third...?

Polish took off from RAF Northolt
in British aircraft.

You can do it what ever order you like.

 

[transam]

Mind u the Russians used there troops as cannon fodder

They also had blocking troops / units

troops retreating were machine gunned by there own side

They had no interest in Russian Pows

Stalin even abandoned his own son

The Germans had him as a prisoner and offered to swap him for a high ranking German general

Stalin was not interested

His son committed suicide in a German prison camp

 

[fillyboy]

Polish took off from RAF Norton in British aircraft.

You can do it what ever order you like.

Northolt.

 

[Bodd]

Northolt.

That's what meant

 

[Bodd]

Northolt.

I was thinking of Trans upsetting story about Norton

 

[Bodd]

Northolt.

Corrected.. Thank you lucky Nosy didn't see

 

[EddieM]

Blighty did her bit, no doubt about it. But we would never have stood a land invasion from the Gerries. To think what the Russian civillians and soldiers had to endure throughout Operation Barbarossa and sustain that kind of slaughter - not a hope in hell. Horrific.

That's not true, you're really gonna have to back that up with some facts (which you won't be able to prove) the UK is exceptionally hard to mount a land invasion on, even harder to keep.

 

[noseall]

you're really gonna have to back that up with some facts

They would have sailed up the Thames, headed North and attacked Essex. Once that quickly fell the rest would have been easy. Only those North of Watford would have resisted.


Blighty was on her arse. Not an easy invasion no, but doable.

 

[Bodd]

That's not true, you're really gonna have to back that up with some facts (which you won't be able to prove) the UK is exceptionally hard to mount a land invasion on, even harder to keep.

That's right. We kicked the Romans out after 300 years.

 

[Bodd]

They would have sailed up the Thames, headed North and attacked Essex. Once that quickly fell the rest would have been easy. Only those North of Watford would have resisted.


Blighty was on her arse. Not an easy invasion no, but doable.

Is that what the Spanish tried?

 

[EddieM]

They would have sailed up the Thames, headed North and attacked Essex. Once that quickly fell the rest would have been easy. Only those North of Watford would have resisted.


Blighty was on her arse. Not an easy invasion no, but doable.

Absolute ******. laughable.

 

[EddieM]

That's right. We kicked the Romans out after 300 years.

weren't a nation then.

 

[Bodd]

weren't a nation then.

Only Joking Eddie. I'm on your side.