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You are correct. the Polish airborne participated in Market Garden.But The in the D-day were involved the Polish Air Force, the Polish Navy and the 1st Polish Armour Division of Gen Maczek.
we have tons of Polish veterans here in fact there are 3 polish Legions locally heres a pic of one of themYou are correct. the Polish airborne participated in Market Garden.But The in the D-day were involved the Polish Air Force, the Polish Navy and the 1st Polish Armour Division of Gen Maczek.
I think you might mean "Robert Capa"- unless Robert had a brother named Frank who was also a photographer in WW11-- Robert Capa and writer Ernest Hemingway were "friends" in the 1940's WW11 era- also Robert Capa took photos of Hemingway hunting pheasant in Sun Valley area, Idaho-Fall of 1941.I always have felt that Capa's soldier in the surf shot was actually enhanced by the faults in the proccessing it added a sense of urgency in that moment.
I spoke at Southend air show just a couple of weeks ago to two D-Day vets one a matlot on a LST the other a squaddie both saw action on Sword beach the sailor told me how on the build up to D-day he was sent to the states to ferry his LST across the pond in convoy with 10 others each piggy backing a LCT as deck cargo half way over they hit a storm and being flat bottomed and not good sea craft two of his convoy capsized with the loss of all hands. The vet soldier said that his landing was rough but it got much rougher when they moved inland and he got involved a little later in the Bocage fighting most of his mates died withing 3 weeks of landing in France. They both said that this was probably going to be their last visit so I gave them my dads combined ops badge to leave on the beach.
The old vets may slowly die off but I think their stories of that time will live on through their children and grand children for a long time to come.
images such as those of Frank Capa remain even after 65 years a very potant symbol of that day
To all thoses gentlemen special those who never came home we owe a very big debt.
Rows of US tanks and halftracks just before the invasion on Normandy. D-day 1944. Source World war photos
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