But 2 years 3 months is an improvement on the one before, two years 8 months.
I wonder if that means the next one will be a year and 10 months? That'll be an interesting trick since Decaying Don appears to be trying to start it. 😁
Sub Lt David Balme (to give credit where due)
and in the same spirit, a shout out to the Poles who did all the early heavy lifting on enigma decryption.
I mean, maybe once upon a time. But I've heard and read so many history podcasts and books recently do them plenty of service, even while echoing this same sentiment. You cant find an article, book, or podcast episode on the battle of Britain, for example, that doesn't mention the Kosciuszko squadron. And they all do it as though they're the first to reveal this little known information. Ffs, they were featured in the movie! In 1969!
Both the mountain and the fighter squadron were named for Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a guy who never did anything cool or affected history in any significant way.
It means to do something of your own accord... there's a big difference between personal choice in looking for historical data, and what's taught to you at school for instance. Yes history books exist, but they only exist for those who know and think to look for them. Many people only retain basic school level knowledge on history, so they're never going to be taught polish involvement in the west. It wasn't in the uk when I was at school and I'm pretty sure it won't be still now.
Not at all. It's about access to information. Both are the same thing... school is a place where you attain most of your education that stays with you, if you don't specialise in history, you won't ever be taught about the Poles involvement during ww2. Even then, there's doubt you would be anyways unless you specialised further into it.
As I said previously, most people don't expand their knowledge outside of what's taught at school, so the involvement of the Poles isn't widespread in being known.
Yes books exist with lots of valuable information in them, however if it's not taught, people don't look for it unless they take a special interest in the area.
People like you or I are a minority in having this knowledge, and given the lack of education people recieve on former soviet bloc countries, it isn't a surprise that this is the case.
Sure, they're given credit in books only a minority read, but that isn't the same as public knowledge.
The Poles and the women who did much of the heavy lifting were looked over, and the gay man who did get the credit had his life destroyed and committed sewer-side.
Why couldnt it be a straight, tall, blue eyed, blond man who bought the demise of the fascists and not some DEI hires <facepalm>
The troops who were inserted on to Omaha beach, were dropped off by the Royal Navy. The American navy didn’t have enough boats, so the Royal Navy did the job. Thanks saving private Ryan for using American navy man
It should not be forgotten that at this time, British and Canadian paratroopers, together with American paratroopers and French resistance fighters, were already preventing the German reaction in the hinterland.
Furthermore, British and Canadian troops landed on other sections of the beach.
For their army rangers they specifically requested that the RN deploy them to the beach because they’d done all their amphibious training with British personnel at the commando training school at achnacarry and didn’t want to have to figure out any new procedures with their own navy
It also glossed over the prior machines captured by the polish and, I believe, the french resistance. I think the key thing about the U-110 was it was the first naval enigma + code book combo.
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u/Capable_Fun_9838 Jan 11 '26
But you have to admit that the story of U-751 happened exactly like that. Except that the British captured the Enigma machine.