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==Lack of Polish participation== ==Lack of Polish participation==

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The Victory Parade advances down Whitehall.

The London Victory Parade of 1946 was a British victory parade held after the defeat of Nazi Germany and Empire of Japan in World War II. It took place in the United Kingdom capital of London, on June 8, 1946, mainly encompassing a military parade through the city.

Representatives of the Greek armed forces in their traditional white kilts, including the Royal Hellenic Navy.

The parade was 9 mile long and stretched from Trafalgar Square to the Buckingham Palace.

Lack of Polish participation

The parade is also notable for the fact that almost all 228,000 Polish servicemen who had served under British High Command in World War Two were excluded from taking part in the parade.

See also

References

  1. "Fighting with the Allies: Remembering Polish Fighters." PBS (Behind Closed Doors). Retrieved: 22 October 2009
  2. http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=36787#
  3. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=165717&sectioncode=6
  4. Lynne Olson, Stanley Cloud, A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II , Knopf, 2003, ISBN 0375411976, Excerpt (prologue).
  5. Kwan Yuk Pan, Polish veterans to take pride of place in victory parade, Financial Times, July 5 2005. Last accessed on 31 March 2006.
  6. http://www.aniaspoland.com/polish_forces.php
  7. http://books.google.ca/books?id=LkoEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA32&ots=_GcCLqn9h6&dq=poland%201946%20london%20victory%20parade&pg=PA32#v=onepage&q=&f=false
  8. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/01/polish-war-effort-memorial-book
  9. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/04/polish_spitfire/
  10. http://www.polandstreet.org.uk/index.php?page=news&art=134
  11. http://www.warsawuprising.com/paper/wrobel2.htm
  12. http://thecommunitypaper.com/archive/6_06/index.php

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