Polish Division

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Mr. Champoux describes the Polish Division - soldiers who managed to get out of Poland and who fought fiercely against the Germans because their families were at still home in Poland.

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The Temerity of the Polish Division
You probably heard about the Polish Division. The soldiers that were, managed to get out of Poland after the, the Germans. I think that was the big, the first time the war started really destroying the main cities in Poland. But this was a fellow that like come to England, join the British Army. But they formed their own group once they had enough people. And they were always ahead of, of the main moving force. You know, there was a target to be taken. The first thing you know, they’d take off with all their vehicles, the tanks and what not, their Bren carrier. And they’d go and destroy the Germans, they’d kill them all. More or less. There, there was still, you know, about what happened with the Germans at home. Parents, some of them you know, people, there was such an awful lot of casualties. It was terrible. And you couldn’t blame them to do this. I didn’t approve it, but there it was. So, they had to be careful because a lot of time their own aircraft knock out a tank or something and, and some of them were killed. But they wouldn’t listen. That’s what it was.

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