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Department of Veterans' Affairs
There was about 50,000 Poles in the invasion of Italy so we went to Napoli… and of course you have heard of the Battle of Monte Cassino well that was one of the Polish's bigger contributions had and, of course, the biggest losses too and after that I was withdrawn from Italy and I went from Poland [sic] to England and instructed an armoured brigade for the invasion and war in Europe.
Yeah, so we had another Polish Brigade take part in D-Day plus 5. We went to beach, Juno Beach, Sword Beach, yeah, and there was already Canadians and Montgomery was, of course, commanding that. After that, I proceeded as far as Holland to a place called…in Holland and the war finished when we were in…
