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German Dive Bomber Airplanes Did Not Make a Screeching Sound Because of Their Engine. They Had Small Fans Attached to the Front of Their Landing Gear That Acted Like a Siren

Never before has a warplane so old, vulnerable, and technologically primitive wreaked such havoc on its adversaries as the Junkers Ju-87 Stuka. Even as Germany invaded Poland, sparking World War II, its Ministry of Aviation was problematic at developing a replacement Reichsluftfahrtment for its dive bomber, with the early Ju-87B intended to be the last […]

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Why Was a School in Poland Named After an Indian Maharaja?

During the second World War, there were hundreds of displaced Polish children who were brought to Soviet orphanages. This happened during the time Germany invaded Poland in 1939. In 1942 Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja the Maharaja of Nawanager established the Polish Children’s Camp for the refugee children of Poland to save them from the harsh conditions

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The British actually sent a spy named James Bond to Warsaw, Poland in 1964, where he worked at the Embassy. He was notable for his charisma and fondness of women.

007’s file found in the IPN’s Archive James Albert Bond from Devon came to Warsaw in February 1964 with his wife and six-year-old son, to take the position of a secretary-cum-archivist to the military attaché at the British Embassy. During his time here he made a few trips to northeast Poland, accompanying senior staff of

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