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Originally Posted by Ruy Horta
Not meant as an insult, but wasn't there anything these Polish airmen didn't know better or at best agreed with?
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I think that many were just impressed with the British organisation. Also, after initial snags, they had the feeling that their experience will be used properly. Ant there are indeed some comments like we should learn this or that.
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It does surprise me that there isn't a single mentioning of the fact that they grateful for being given a second chance to fight the germans in a fighter aircraft (how did these types compare with the Polish front line fighters of '39?).
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Well, they could have been angry that they did not receive promised French aircraft, that there was no French offensive on Germany, that French aircraft did not attack Berlin, etc. Actually, their journey to France was a part of mutual agreements, and I am surprised, why they should have seen that in other way?
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Those who survived France got a third chance in Britain, where they probably didn't agree with everything they encountered either, but were save from the Wehrmacht and a quick defeat, hence having less to criticise at the end.
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Well, if you ever read Polish memories, you will find comments in kind it is all other way than in France, at last, etc. There were some tensions, there were some complaints, but nothing that could be considered as general as in France in 1940. Here, we can really talk about no generalisation.