coalition of the willing......lol

[macDbol]

i guess the pollocks arent as slick (for not refering to 9-11 and wmd) what a joke...........


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3043330.stm

 

[danielson]

lol.....honesty

 

[Julez]

Bloody cheeck.

I have'nt seen any of their soldiers coming home in boxes, being ambushed, or taking any towns.

In fact this is the first time I knew of any envolvement in the war.

250 troups, who-ho!

And their not exactly known as a crack army..... in 1939 Hitler took their country in a matter of hours, frankly I would'nt have confidence for them work as store detectives.

 

[NeverHugeEnough]

Their involvement in the war is with their Special Forces groups. There was one mention of a mission they helped with (taking an oil field I believe) publically and they blew up over it because they didn't want their SF actions to be part of what is reported and that was the end of it the news about them.

 

[DcupSheepNipples]

I hate to break it to you guys from "Old Europe" but the Poles are the new Europe Super Power! While you laugh and make fun of them they will pass you by before you know what happens!

 

[OCB]

And their not exactly known as a crack army..... in 1939 Hitler took their country in a matter of hours, frankly I would'nt have confidence for them work as store detectives.

Your post just goes to show how ignorant you are. You'd save yourself alot of embarassment if you limited your posts to subjects you know about. Below is a brief timeline of WW2 from a Polish perspective.

August 19, 1934- General Pilsudski proposes a war against Germany by Poland and France before Hitler rearms, but is rebuffed by Paris

1939 - Poland refuses German demands for Gdansk and the "Polish Corridor."

Poland gives Britain and France each an Enigma machine whose German codes they have broken.

Lieutenant Wladyslaw Gnys
of 2 Krakow Air Regiment shoots down two Dornier 17
Bombers--the first air kills of the war.

Britain and France declare war on
Germany, but 92 French divisions sit idle behind the Maginot
Line facing 35 inferior German divisions.

Polish Home Army (AK) is formed in Warsaw

The Polish Government-in-Exile is formed in
Paris with General Wladyslaw Sikorski as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

1940-

Poles arrive in Syria and form part of the French Army as the Polish Carpathian Brigade. When France falls they refuse to surrender, and join the British army in Palestine.

The Polish Podhalanska Brigade, part
of an Allied expeditionary force, lands on the
Norwegian island of Hinnoy and prepares to
attack Narvik occupied by the Germans.

Within ten months of the German invasion of Poland, a Polish army of 85,000 men who escaped, is established in France under General Wladyslaw Sikorski, and will fight German invaders once more.

As France pepares to surrender, General Sikorski
announces that Poland will continue to fight. Polish forces escape
to England, Switzerland and Africa

The Polish Air Force is reconstituted in Britain. The all-Polish, RAF 302 City of Poznan Fighter Squadron, begins operations in Britain.
RAF 303 Kosciuszko Fighter Squadron,begins operations in Britain when a Polish pilot shoots down a German bomber during a training flight. The 303 will be credited with the highest number of kills in Fighter Command.
1941-
Sikorski asks the RAF to bomb Auschwitz to liberate inmates. Polish and Jewish
leaders repeat the request through the war, but the Allies will not act, citing military priorities.

Polish Gulag survivors and POWs begin trek across USSR to Buzuluk where the Polish Army is being formed. Their entire office corps will later be executed at Katyn by the soviets. Stalin tells Sikorski that missing Polish officers (secretly murdered on his orders) may have "escaped to Manchuria."

Polish Carpathian Brigade distinguishes
itself at Battle of Gazala in Libya. Later they will fight in Italy
with the Polish 2nd Corps.

Polish National Council in England demands raids against the Germans by the Allies, and if they refuse, to withdraw the Polish Air Force from the RAF and order it to attack.

1943

AK launches 514 attacks of various kinds on German occupiers. In first four months of 1943, the Polish underground administers typhoid fever microbes and poison to 600 Germans.

USSR breaks off relations with Poles following their demand
for a Red Cross investigation of Katyn. Stalin prepares a pro-Soviet group of
Poles in anticipation of taking over Poland.
U.S. government tries to discredit findings of the commission at Katyn to implacate Stalin. The U.S. government tells Polish radio stations at home to "pipe down" about Katyn and Soviet crimes.

The Ist Polish Infantry Division, the Tadeusz Kosciuszko Division, is formed in USSR under General Zygmunt Berling who had deserted Anders' army. Freed Poles in the USSR who didn't reach Anders' army and Polish conscripts in the Red Army will form the 1st, 2nd, 3rd Polish Armies. About 200,000 Poles will fight alongside the Soviets under their command.

British launch a massive air attack on the German rocket programme at Peenemunde, thanks to intelligence reports by the Polish underground.

Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet in Teheran.They secretly agree on Curzon Line as postwar boundary of Poland. The Polish
Government-in-Exile is not informed.

1944-

In Warsaw alone the Polish underground kills 10 Germans daily. In total
about 150,000 Germans will be killed by the underground during the war. Prior to the
Warsaw Uprising, the AK had lost 62,000 men.

FDR is presented with evidence of Soviet guilt for Katyn, but says he's "absolutely convinced" that the Nazis are guilty.

Troops of General Anders' 2nd Polish Corps attached to the British 8th Army, capture Monte Cassino and raise a Polish flag over the ruins.

Experimental V-2 rocket which failed to explode, is salvaged by the Polish underground and flown to England on a special plane.

The Polish 1st Armoured Division, under General Stanislaw Maczek, lands on beaches of Normandy in France and is assigned to 2nd Canadian Corps.


Warsaw Uprisng erupts as 42,000 AK soldiers and
civilians attack the Germans. Only 2,500 are properly armed while
the Germans have 16,000 well-armed troops who will be strengthened.

Polish insurgents seize two-thirds of Warsaw.
For three days they await a German counter-attack confident they
can hold it off and achieve liberation before the Red Army arrives.

Stalin promises Poles that the Red Army will attack
Germans if the Uprising lasts for 6 days. It will last 63 days
but no help will come.


Polish tank crews, together with Canadians,
launch Operation Totalize in Normandy, striking at SS
armoured forces along the Caen-Falaise Road.

FDR rejects Churchill's scheme to help Warsaw by using Soviet airfields without Stalin's approval.

The 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade,
under General Stanislaw Sosabowski, suffers heavy casualties
in capture of the bridge over the Rhine at Arnhem.

1945-


Polish and Soviet forces take Warsaw.


Winston Churchill tells the House of Commons: "His Majesty's Government will never forget the debt they owe to the Polish troops who have served them so valiantly. I earnestly hope that it is possible to offer them citizenship and freedom of the British Empire."


At the Yalta Conference. Stalin's demands for control of Poland and Eastern Europe meet little opposition from Churchill and FDR.
FDR forbids staff to say anything about Soviet guilt for Katyn.

Polish 2nd Corps liberates Bologna.
Hitler commits suicide in Berlin after learning the German army group "Mite" ordered by him to rescue Berlin had been defeated by the 2nd Polish Army.

Britain and USA announce they no longer recognize Polish Government-in-Exile in London. Polish soldiers and civilians in the British Commonwealth and elsewhere are
pressured to return to a Poland under Soviet control. Most refuse.

1946-

Victory Parade, London. Detachments of
every Allied force march, but Polish units are not
allowed so as to not offend Stalin. Air Marshall
Sir Philip Joubert protests the Poles' treatment:
"Have we lost all sense of decency and gratitude?"

http://www.polandsholocaust.org