Fullbore Friday
In comments on a June 2009's FbF, regular commenter ewok40K mentioned something that had me do a little pondering a week later and then again in 2013. It’s been a decade since this FbF, so time to bring it back.
This is as fullbore as tales my granddad told about facing Me-109s in an outdated fixed-landing gear gull wing PZL P-11 capable of barely 360 kph...
Many people forget that Britain and France went to war over Poland. That is where it started - and in the end, we left her to the Communists.
Poor Poland, Nazi on one side, Communists on the other. The Polish military can hold its head high, it fought as best as it could. The nation that saved Vienna and therefore Europe from the Ottomans went down fighting - and continued fighting throughout the war.
In the West, we tell our stories because they are so well documented. Much of what Poland did is not well known - and outside Poland their heroes are unknown.
In that light, today let's take a chance to give a nod of the head to a blog-buddy's Grandfather and his friends in the Brygada Pościgowa and their plucky gull-winged PZL P-11. They knew what the story was, but fought on.
More real pics here.
Imagine being the ME-109 pilot having to go back and say you got outmaneuvered by one of those
At the first meeting of the UN, Artur Rubenstein noted the Polish flag was not there, and neither was a delegation. He played “Poland is Not Yet Lost” in a thunderous manner, to the applause of all.
The Poles are an admirable people.