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To: SofaSpud who wrote (1952)	2/28/2003 12:54:24 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 37812

They weren't in Overlord, they were held back in the UK, landed in France 1 Aug, they see their first action two days later in Totalise, the operation to close the Falaise Gap valourandhorror.com vac-acc.gc.ca Can't recall where i read about their casualties from USAF/RAF/RCAF fire, thought it was valourandhorror.com but can't find it there now ..... this came to mind when the four patricias were killed in Afghanistan ... the fog of war can be extremely thick and accidents will inevitably happen .... while you want to do all you can to reduce them, i think actions other than persecuting the two pilots might just be more effective, clearly a good bit of the responsibility was higher up the chain of command .... perhaps a regular practise of hanging the most incompetent general three or four times a year, pour encourager les autres

To: SofaSpud who wrote (1952)	2/28/2003 4:32:54 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 37812

'Their cemetery is very different from CWGC ones. Very stark. Of course the Polish govt. refused to acknowledge its existence until after 1990.' They were with us, voluntarily part of our army, fought side by side ... so we had a responsibility to them, that did not terminate in 1945 .... they ended up subjugated by their next-door bully-boys for fifty-five years, well if it had been the other way round, them free and us under occupation, would they have forgotten us? - i don't think so Quite a few of them came to Canada after the war, instead of going back under the rule of the russians ... quite a percentage to British Columbia, because they'd had considerable contact with the BC armoured regiment with whom they would swap/steal spares and manpower replacements ... there were more than a few around the Legion in the sixties ... i used to live just down the road from a pole who flew a Hurricane in the battle of Britain summer of '40, nice guy, he was a school trustee ... he also flew on the coast of Europe later, after the invasion