Post by pieter on Apr 15, 2015 7:03:36 GMT -7
Via a Duch officer of the Army who organises remembrance ceremonies around Second World War events I got new info about my Polish or Polish-American uncle, Januz Kwasieborski, from Milwaukee.
My Polish unlce Januz Kwasieborski from America (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) fought in Driel and Oosterbeek (The Netherlands, near Arnhem) during Operation Market Garden with General Sosabowski's as a member of his Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade. From his archive files the friendly Dutch army officer found out yesterday that my uncle followed and finished a parachutist education and received the Polish qualification 'wing' with battle wreath, with respectively the registrationnumbers 2747 and 1088. This 'wing' was a large hat-pin which potrayed a falling Eagle. Because he made a so-called war jump at Driel, a wreath was attached to this 'wing'. This wreath was hold by the claws of the eagle. Like said he was a member of the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade of general Sosabowski and he was Soldier First Class (Lance Corporal) at the 3d Parachute Battalion. He was flown in a Dakota (number 90) to Driel coming from Saltby (Leicestershire, England) on Thursday September the 21th 1944.
And this was the video I made yesterday (filming, editing and doing the interview, Camjo) with the Dutch officer who provided me the information about my uncle. It was about a English plane which was shot shortly before the Netherlands was invaded by Nazi Germany, in April 1940, the British Mitchell bomber as shot above Germany and managed to escape to the Netherlands, where it crashed. The pilots and crew were killed during the crash. This ceremony was iwht familymembers of the British crew members in Arnhem, with a ceremony with a British Anglican Priest. The Dutch officer is interested in the British, Polish and Dutch participations and thus contributions to the Battle of Arnhem (Market Garden). He is a very nice mand and was very interested in my story about my uncle and the story of my Polish family. Dutch military historians and some older Dutch people remember the Polish contribution to attempts to liberate the Netherlands and actually the real liberation of the Netherlands too. They don't forget that. I have heard several Dutch people speaking about the Poles that fought so hard over here, the last couple of years. Polish veterans are welcome over here like the British veterans and American veterans too.
Another video
My Polish unlce Januz Kwasieborski from America (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) fought in Driel and Oosterbeek (The Netherlands, near Arnhem) during Operation Market Garden with General Sosabowski's as a member of his Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade. From his archive files the friendly Dutch army officer found out yesterday that my uncle followed and finished a parachutist education and received the Polish qualification 'wing' with battle wreath, with respectively the registrationnumbers 2747 and 1088. This 'wing' was a large hat-pin which potrayed a falling Eagle. Because he made a so-called war jump at Driel, a wreath was attached to this 'wing'. This wreath was hold by the claws of the eagle. Like said he was a member of the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade of general Sosabowski and he was Soldier First Class (Lance Corporal) at the 3d Parachute Battalion. He was flown in a Dakota (number 90) to Driel coming from Saltby (Leicestershire, England) on Thursday September the 21th 1944.
And this was the video I made yesterday (filming, editing and doing the interview, Camjo) with the Dutch officer who provided me the information about my uncle. It was about a English plane which was shot shortly before the Netherlands was invaded by Nazi Germany, in April 1940, the British Mitchell bomber as shot above Germany and managed to escape to the Netherlands, where it crashed. The pilots and crew were killed during the crash. This ceremony was iwht familymembers of the British crew members in Arnhem, with a ceremony with a British Anglican Priest. The Dutch officer is interested in the British, Polish and Dutch participations and thus contributions to the Battle of Arnhem (Market Garden). He is a very nice mand and was very interested in my story about my uncle and the story of my Polish family. Dutch military historians and some older Dutch people remember the Polish contribution to attempts to liberate the Netherlands and actually the real liberation of the Netherlands too. They don't forget that. I have heard several Dutch people speaking about the Poles that fought so hard over here, the last couple of years. Polish veterans are welcome over here like the British veterans and American veterans too.
Another video
