BETRAYING THOSE WHO FOUGHT WITH US

In order to understand how the Ukrainians must be feeling at this time, we need to go back in time to the Battle of Britain that took place between July 10 and October 31, 1940.  After conquering Poland, Belgium, France and other European countries, Hermann Göring, the commander-in-chief of the German Luftwaffe, assured Adolf Hitler that he would destroy the Royal Air Force which was a necessity prior to undertaking an invasion of Great Britain across the English Channel. The Luftwaffe greatly exceeded the number of aircraft and pilots possessed by the British. Fortunately, some 30,000 Polish military personnel — about 8,500 of whom were in the air force — escaped France and made their way to England where Prime Minister Winston Churchill informed them, “We shall conquer together or we shall die together.”