The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Warsaw Uprising (Aug-Oct, 1944) - August 1st, 2003

http://www.polishresistance-ak.org/4%20Article.htm ^ | Tadeusz Kondracki Translated by Antoni Bohdanowicz

[snippy_about_it]

You know what? I'm proud of your dad too and damn glad he made it out alive, same with your mom in Germany.

Thanks to them surviving WWII, we have you! ;)

[stand watie]

!!!!!!

[snippy_about_it]

Good afternoon sw. Thanks for dropping in.

[SAMWolf]

Their state of arms on August 1 was as follows: one thousand rifles, 300 automatic pistols, 60 sub-machine guns, 7 machine guns, 35 anti-tank guns and PIAT bazookas, 1700 pistols, and 25,000 grenades. In the course of the fighting further arms were obtained through air drops and by capture from the enemy (including several armoured vehicles). Also, the insurgents’ workshops were busy all the while producing: 300 automatic pistols, 150 flame-throwers, 40,000 grenades, a number of mortars and bazookas, and even an armoured car.

Yet the french Armed Forces with superior armor, more troops and a decent Air Force held out for less time than the Poles of Warsaw (mostly civilians) using homemade and captured weapons.

Yes, it does stink that the Poles paid the price for resisting, but they can say "We Poles paid the price for our Freedom" and not "We sat on our butts, helping the Germans while someone else shed their blood to free us" like the french.

[SAMWolf]

Morning Feather.

[SAMWolf]

Morning Fiddlstix.

I think I need an extra chocolate donut this morning.

[SAMWolf]

You're welcome Snippy.

It's a heartbreaking story and you can still hear the mixture of pride and bitterness in my dad's voice when he does talk about some of his experiences.

[Darksheare]

Yes.

[SAMWolf]

1774 Priestly discovers oxygen

WoW! Good thing for us huh? Wonder what people breathed before he discovered it?

[SAMWolf]

Morning w_over_w. Get picked for any interesting cases? Don't mention you're a Freeper or you'll never get picked.

[stand watie]

i always enjoy the foxhole.

BTW, the warsaw uprising should be a lesson to all: do NOT be UN-armed on the day the statists come for YOU! better protected than sorry!

the ONLY weapons protected by the SECOND AMENDMENT are MILITIA WEAPONS (the USSC, in a 1939 decision, defines militia weapons as those weapons "which are particuliarly suited to protect home,city, state & nation.).the 2d is NOT about hunting ducks!

free dixie,sw

[SAMWolf]

My dad has always felt that the Brits sold out Poland in exchange for keeping the Russians out of Greece. Sort of a "You can have Poland if you give us Greece" deal.

He may have a point.

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks sw. If I used my weapons for hunting ducks there'd be nothing left of the poor thing. :)

[snippy_about_it]

I think I need an extra chocolate donut this morning.

I didn't eat them all!! :)

[SAMWolf]

NATO had its first detailed look at the MiG-25 when a Soviet pilot defected to Japan with one in September 1976. This exposed its 1950s-era radar and other features that dispelled much of the mythology built up by some Western analysts since the first sighting of the 'Foxbat' in 1967.

LOL! So it looked cool but it was really a Porsche with Volkswagen working parts.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Very possible, Sam .. Stalin didn't actively intervene in the Greek Civil War after WWI ended, as I recall. Perhaps a quid pro quo. But, I suspect we will never know.

[SAMWolf]

[Colonel_Flagg]

Or, I could more accurately say "WWII" :)

[stand watie]

WOW! you have a 105 or an 8-inch???????

free dixie,sw

[SAMWolf]

the warsaw uprising should be a lesson to all: do NOT be UN-armed on the day the statists come for YOU!You got that right, never let the government disarm you.