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Originally Posted by PavelKirilovich
I had Polish next door neighbours. Every once in a while, for no apparent reason, they'd invite everybody over for a massive barbeque. This is where I developed my taste for roast pig - yeah, the whole thing, apple jammed in its mouth and all, roasted over a fire. Delicious.
The grandfather came over to Canada after fighting with the Polish Armoured Division, as I recall. Mad respect for the PAD; they did some serious damage and some damn fine work alongside 1 CDN Army in NW Europe.
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Those boys meant business for certain, people seem to forget the commonwealth troops, there were more british and common wealth troops put ashore on D-day than any other, and almost every ship was either british/commowealth or was manned by british/commonwealth sailors, even the vessels taking the american soldiers to normandy. It was the last great hurrah of an empire in decline.