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Originally Posted by SEE
Kind of you to be so considerate but not necessary buddy. We frequently have members of all nationalities and we all get along just nicely despite the language barriers. Battle of Britain relied on Polish and French pilots in the end despite Air Marshall Dowding mistakenly thinking they could not make an effective contribution due to the language barriers - he admitted he was wrong.........get in your cockpit and enjoy!
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Seeing as most on here love their WWII history I thought I'd flesh out SEEs comment..
Nationalities that fought for the RAF during the BoB..
(Number of Pilots with 1 operational sortie)
GB - 2353
Poland - 139
New Zealand - 98
Canada - 86
Czech - 84
Belgium -29
Australia - 21
South Africa - 20
France - 13
Ireland - 10
USA - 7
Jamaica - 2
Eygpt, Austria, Palestine and Rhodesia - 1 (Each.. not some sort of Frankenpilot)
So it was a very mixed bag!