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I know the comments about the french are tongue in cheek, but bear this in mind. If it had not been for the French and the rear guard action they fought at Dunkirk we Brits would all be speaking German by now. Kick the Belgium's out now they are twats.

Don't give them credit for changing the outcome of the war

Even if we lost all the troupes in Dunkirk it wouldn't have changed much. The English channel and the RAF brought us time to work out how to defeat nazi Germany

If you want to praise any French from WW2 give it to the resistance, now they were brave
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You really do need to read your history mate, the English Channel and the RAF bought us time to work out how to defeat Nazi Germany. Well you may have a point all we needed to do during that time was to  convince the Americans to declare war on Germany, I think they may just have helped us out a wee bit. I would never decry what the RAF did during the Battle of Britain. I think the Polish lads did their bit as well.


Nice to see how the Polish people who now live and work in the UK today are being treated by some of the scum who no doubt voted for the leave campaign in the Referendum.


[color=rgb(37, 37, 37)]The 147 Polish pilots claimed 201 aircraft shot down. 303 Squadron claimed the highest number of kills (126) of all Allied squadrons engaged in the Battle of Britain.[/color][color=rgb(11, 0, 128)][29][/color][color=rgb(11, 0, 128)]Witold Urbanowicz[/color][color=rgb(37, 37, 37)] of 303 Squadron was the top Polish scorer with 15 claims. [/color][color=rgb(11, 0, 128)]Sgt Tony Głowacki[/color][color=rgb(37, 37, 37)] was one of two Allied pilots in the Battle to shoot down five German aircraft in one day, on 24 August (the other being New Zealander [/color][color=rgb(11, 0, 128)]Brian Carbury[/color][color=rgb(37, 37, 37)]). One Polish veteran, [/color][color=rgb(11, 0, 128)]Stanislaw Skalski[/color][color=rgb(37, 37, 37)], became the top-scoring Polish fighter ace of the Second World War.[/color]
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All I said was that the saving of our forces at Dunkirk would not have made much, if any difference to the outcome of the war. As for who ultimately lead to the defeat of Nazi Germany, I think we had Russia to thank for that. Forget all your pilots who shot down a few axis aircraft, fighting in Russia destroyed the cream of the German armies. By the time we (inc the USA) landed on D Day there were mainly conscripts, old men and boys opposing our forces.

Very few people seem to credit Russia for the part it played in the second world war, but with losses of an estimated twenty eight million I think they deserve some recognition.
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As I said just read a bit of history, Russia and Germany divided Poland between them. Russia and Germany had signed a non agression pact in 1939 and it remained in force until 22 June 1941, when the Germans attacked Russia.That non agression pact let Russia invade , Finland , Latvia, Estonia, Belarus and Rumainia etc!! The Russians when they did finally decide to throw their hand in with the Allies were only able to hang on in there because of the help they got from the USA and the UK due to the Atlantic convoys. Yes they suffered heavy causulties, but Stalin was still playing a double game, he continued to carry out Ethnic cleansing of his own people.