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What an excellent gesture to a surviving 303 Sqn member
What an excellent response by the company
Before I say anything, I have no connection to the distillery or their owners. This was a kind and generous offer by them. This is a new premium vodka distilled in the UK and getting great reviews. My brother wrote them a couple of days ago, and they are sending a gift box of this new vodka to my father in Canada. They posted this on their Facebook page... "The man on the picture is Jozef Palimaka He was a member of the Squadron 303 seventy years ago. He is still alive and lives in Canada. His son Chris wrote us a few days ago. He told us his father would be pleased to get a bottle of our vodka. We are very proud to offer him the Squadron 303 Officer Box. No one deserves it more than Jozef Palimaka!" http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/in...howtopic=67903 |
God bless all the Polish members who served in WW2, without exception they were/are the greatest members of all our allies, we owe them a huge vote of thanks!
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Agree with clunkdriver. And a company that deserves success as well. What a response.
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Not just the Polish forces, their cryptographers were the first to break Enigma in early 1940? IIRC.
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Hear, hear!
Had a Polish instructor on the other training Sqn at Leeming and was a colleague of his son in civil aviation. Also a Sqn Ldr nav on one of my RAF squadrons. Always remember his American wife used his Polish Christian name and not the English one he'd picked up in the RAF. ;) |
Air Pig, totally agree!
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Yes, remember our Polish pilots on the Varsity. Unlike later nav training we flew some sorties unscreened. Always helpful but firm.
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Had one as my maths teacher in junior school. He had stayed in England at the end of the war rather than go back to a communist country. He was the first to instill in me a love of mathematics.
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It was not only Polish pilots who served in the RAF during WWII. At RAF Halton there was a Polish Wing of groundcrew who also made a vital contribution to the RAF.
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S'land, that's intersting, I had a Polish Maths tutor at college in Orpington, Kent. He had a badly damaged arm from, I think, EA on his tank during WW2. Guy had the patience of a saint, enough to explain algebra to me in a way that I could relate to and pass my Maths GCE (After more than one attempt!).
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By chance, I was able to visit the Polish War Memorial yesterday
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Nov 4, I pass that frequently on the A40 and make the obvious joke every time.
Must actually stop and visit. You've given me the the urge to do so. |
Originally Posted by Basil
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Nov 4, I pass that frequently on the A40 and make the obvious joke every time.
Must actually stop and visit. You've given me the the urge to do so. |
Brave guys, them and the Czechs
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My father was a Hurricane rigger/airframe fitter instructor at Halton in 1940 when the first batch of Polish groundcrew came through. He said they taught him about in-the-field servicing and repairs and could not wait to join an active squadron. It was no surprise to him when the Polish squadrons' serviceability became among the highest in the RAF.
A decade later at RAF Binbrook I remember many Service personnel still wearing their shoulder badges: POLAND, RHODESIA, CANADA, SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, CZECHOSLOVAKIA. The Poles in particular used to spoil us kids at every opportunity. Much later I would realise why: many of them would not see their own families again. |
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