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	Polish II Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Polish II Corps (Polish Drugi Korpus Wojska Polskiego, 1943-1947), was a major tactical and operational unit of the Polish Armed Forces in the West during World War II.
		The majority of the forces were composed mostly of Polish citizens who were deported by the NKVD to the Soviet Gulags during the annexation of Eastern Poland (Kresy Wschodnie) in 1939 by the Soviet Union.
		Polish 2nd Armoured Brigade (became Polish 2nd Warsaw Armoured Division in 1945).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2nd_Polish_Corps (813 words)

	Władysław Anders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anders was born on August 11 1892, in the Polish village of Blonie, near Kutno.
		The Polish Cavalry was no match for German Blitzkrieg tactics, tanks and motorised infantry, and the Polish forces were forced to retreat to the east.
		He was buried, in accordance with his wishes, amongst his fallen soldiers from the 2nd Polish Corps at the Polish Military Cemetery at Monte Cassino in Italy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wladyslaw_Anders (399 words)

	ITALIAN CAMPAIGN AND THE BATTLE OF MONTE CASSINO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Polish Corps did not have any reserves, but General Anders decided to throw everything he had into the final attack: bloodied battalions from the first engagement, commandos, drivers, and mechanics.
		Cavalry Regiment hoisted the Polish flag upon the ruins of the monastery.
		Polish Corps fought a victorious eight-day battle for Loreto; moving north along the Adriatic, they captured Ancona, broke through the Gothic Line, and took Faenza.
	www.apacouncil.org /ww2/10ic.html (545 words)

	jazch10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Polish village Duliby, threatened from the Ukrainians villages that surrounded it, had formed its underground unit in the very early stages of the Ukrainian terror and by this time, they were the best-armed and best-organized of the Polish resistance groups in the Jazlowiec area.
		A new regiment was first begun in Scotland, where it was a unit in the 1st Polish Corps and was originally planned to be included in the 1st Polish Armored Division under the command of Gen. Stanislaw Maczek.
		Polish and Jewish cultural traces were wiped out - the catholic church was let to go to ruin, the synagogue was thorn down and many properties were taken apart and used as building materials in sites elsewhere.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/w/x/wxk116/sjk/jazch10.html (7007 words)

	Combat Mission: Afrika Korps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In July and August 1943, the 2nd Polish Corps moved to Palestine for continued training in mountainous terrain, in preparation for their eventual move to Italy.
		In addition to the 2nd Corps, a 2nd Corps Base was also created, including a training division (the 7th Infantry Division) and corps level support units.
		Polish troops of the first Independent Commando Company were the first to see combat in Italy, at the Garigliano River.
	members.shaw.ca /madorosh/orgpolish.htm (474 words)

	Polish WW2 State Awards
		After Polish independence, the order was again reinstituted on 1 August 1919 in five classes, predominantly for gallantry in action although the higher classes were intended for generals who achieved a decisive victory or effected a gallant defence.
		Originally the Polish Government in exile in London adopted a white ribbon with crimson side stripes but later the 1920 ribbon crimson ribbon with white stripes was reintroduced.
		Both the 2nd and 3rd class are 45 mm across whereas the 1st class cross is 55 mm.
	users.skynet.be /hendrik/eng/polishstate.html (1406 words)

	Units & Organizations: British, Canadian, Polish
		This is the organization of the Corps and Divisions during the fall of 1944.
		The Polish command was able to convince the Allies to recruit from soldiers who had been forced to serve in the German Army.
		Lt.-General Wladyslaw Anders was the commander of the Polish Corps.
	members.aol.com /Custermen85/Units/BritishOrg.htm (2095 words)

	POLISH NEWS - Polish History Page - Polish war hero recalls Battle for Monte Cassino. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		General Anders with the Polish Government in London, supported by the British Government, got permission to evacuate a part of the new army to Iran, where food, equipment and armaments would be supplied by Great Britain.
		The inscription on the memorial is the ultimate testament to the historic tenacity and bravery of the Polish nation.
		Inglot, a Northbrook resident, is a Chicago businessman and philantropist who served with the 2nd Polish Corps, 5th Division during, World War II and who was awarded the " Virtuti Militari," the highest award for bravery on behalf of the Polish nation.
	www.polishnews.com /fulltext/history/2002/history19.shtml (671 words)

	The World at War - Poland Timeline 1918-52
		Polish prisoners were sent to the western front via Iran where they were formed into two corps attached to the British Army.
		Allied Council of Ambassadors awards mostly Polish industrial area of western Cieszyn, the district of Orawa with the exception of Jablonka and five-sixths of the disputed district of Spisz to Czechoslovakia.
		Polish and British representatives agree on conditions and schedule for expulsion of 5,057,000 Germans from territories ceded to Poland to the British occupation zone at meeting of the Combined Repatriation Executive in Berlin.
	worldatwar.net /timeline/poland/18-52.html (5040 words)

	The Polish Soldier & Monte Cassino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Corps, with the British 2d Corps on its left carried out the fourth and last assault on the Cassino position ready to advance up Highway 6 in the Liri Valley and open the road to Rome.
		The Polish cemetery is, as much as anything, a political as well as religious statement that seems to echo the role that Poland’s fierce loyalty to the Catholic faith would play as the catalyst for Liberation from communism nearly five decades after these Poles gave their lives.
		When the second Polish Corps was evacuated to Britain, Wojtek had to be sent to the Edinburgh Zoo (as the British would not allow them to keep a live bear on camp in the UK).
	www.mpvone.co.uk /polish/casino.htm (2009 words)

	The Polish Soldier WW2 -Polish army in Italy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I now have a daughter who needs to know a little more about her heritage and she has no command of the Polish language, thus cannot read most of the books, there must be many others in the same situation, I hope that this small piece of the web may help.
		It was a crusade.” The Polish soldiers were responding to “the need for heroism”; they were “particularly determined to put the lie to the barrage of Soviet propaganda in the West variously condemning the Poles as traitors, Nazi collaborators, and cowards who had been afraid to face the Germans in combat.
		The Polish soldiers were forced to watch from the side, as others marched triumphantly, even though they had taken a leading role in the defeat of Germany.
	www.mpvone.co.uk /polish (889 words)

	POLISH NEWS - Polish History Page - THE POLISH VICTORY AT MONTE CASSINO. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Battle of Monte Cassino is an eternal monument to the gallantry of the Polish soldiers.
		At the conclusion of Polish military operations in and near Monte Cassino, the Polish government in Exile, (London) established a campaign cross to commemorate the battle.
		Unfortunately, the High Command of the Polish 2nd Corps did not keep a master roll record of names of soldiers who received the crosses, either by cross number or by the name of the recipient.
	www.polishnews.com /fulltext/history/2002/history17.shtml (932 words)

	60 Years for PAC and Monte Cassino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After several failed attempts by the British and others to storm the German stronghold, the task of the next attack was given to the 2nd Polish Corps led by Gen. Wladyslaw Anders.
		In New York City, the Polish Army Veterans Association (SWAP) scheduled a special memorial observance in honor of these fallen heroes in the Polish Veterans Museum in Manhattan.
		To this day, the PAC continues to be the spokesman in the U.S. for the Polish community and on many issues of importance to Poland.
	www.polamcon.org /pac-anniversary0504.htm (484 words)

	HERO OF MONTE CASSINO
		POLISH GENERAL V. At the start of World War II Polish Army general Vladislovas Anders was in charge of the Naugardukas cavalry brigade.
		When in 1941 Polish émigré government premier gen. V.Sikorski signed an agreement with USSR, gen. Anders was released from internment and charged with organizing Polish Army in USSR, which later became an Army Corps and fought with the Allies in the West.
		One morning, while gathering for a Mass in the square, I was approached by Archbishop Joseph Gawlina, with whom I was acquainted from earlier meetings in Rome, and by Graf Potocki, the Ambassador of Free Poland to Madrid, whom I also had met earlier in 1951.
	www.angelfire.com /tx/LABAS/2000/feb/hero.html (709 words)

	Italian Campaign • Major Allied Units
		Corps - although important - were fluid in composition; they were command groups rather than on-the-front-line groups.
		Divisions and other combat units were often switched among Corps and even Armies depending depending on where they were on the front lines or in reserve.
		The focus of the soldier on the line was toward his sergeant and lieutenant; he left the chessboard of the Corps to the generals.
	www.milhist.net /ordbat/mtounits.html (199 words)

	THE BATTLE OF PIEDIMONTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Polish troops had suffered great attrition, and the use of tanks indirect support to the infantry assaults was now both usual and necessary.
		On the other hand, the Polish tanks were quite recklessly advancing in the open on the left; the armored cars were unable to scout ahead of them, because here the creek flowed into the Liri.
		The Polish forces were divided between two players, one of which took care of the infantry while the other commanded the armor.
	www.geipelnet.com /cdmailer/scenarios/peidimonte.html (2545 words)

	NORMANDY, BELGIUM, HOLLAND AND WILHELMSHAVEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Polish Independent Parachute Brigade were organized in Britain from 1941-1943.
		The division landed in France between July 29 and August 4, 1944, and was assigned to the Second Canadian Corps.
		Although some twenty thousand Germans had managed to slip out before the encirclement was completed by the arrival of American and Canadian troops, the drive, initiative and fighting quality of Maczek's men were responsible for one of the greatest disasters which the German army suffered in France.
	www.apacouncil.org /ww2/12nb.html (559 words)

	Polish military flags
		This pattern is in general use for Polish military units; it would have the name of the unit, and even battles in which it had fought.
		The Virtuti Militari is the same shape as the white parts of the flag together with the ring containing the eagle (Polish national emblem) in the centre.
		Difference between 2nd Polish Army Corps which fought in Italy and LWP units were insignificant.
	flagspot.net /flags/pl-mil.html (704 words)

	Forum Polonia Houston
		The Polish American community prides itself on its deeply rooted commitment to the values of family, faith, democracy, hard work and fulfillment of the American dream.
		In May 2004, Polish Americans were observed the 60th anniversary of two historic events that occurred in 1944 at the height of World War II and only days apart from each other - the victory at Monte Cassino and the founding of the Polish American Congress.
		Polish American votes were important in states across the United States, including swing states like Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin.
	www.forum-polonia-houston.com /PAC/05/nl02.htm (1966 words)

	B. Meirtchak: "JEWISH MILITARY CASUALTIES IN THE POLISH ARMIES IN WWII"
		In the ranks of the Polish Army in the U.S.S.R. the author participated in the bloody Lenino battle and was in command of a tank battalion in the Bautzen-Elba Campaign as a Captain.
		Polish Jews fought in the French Army, in the Red Army, and in the British Forces.
		This study in the Polish language will serve the younger generation of Polish students and scholars as a credible source of information about Jews, and their part in establishing Polish independence during centuries of living together.
	www.zchor.org /meirtchak/meirtchak.htm (2830 words)

	Polish war veterans mark 60th anniversary of bloody World War II battle in Monte Cassino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Polish veterans of the bloody Monte Cassino battle gathered Tuesday near the Benedictine abbey to remember the fallen and celebrate a victory that marked a turning point in World War II.
		Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski placed a candle at the nearby wartime cemetery at the start of the three-hour ceremony in Monte Cassino, about 100 miles south of Rome, where 1,052 of his countrymen are buried.
		The 2nd Polish Corps hoisted the Polish flag over the ruins of the abbey in the morning of May 18, 1944 after German forces had been driven out -- and after about five months of battle.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/05/18/international2201EDT0828.DTL (602 words)

	Untitled Document
		Logo of the 5th Kresowa Infantry Division, which was a part of 2nd Polish Corps of the British 8th Army.
		Soldier of the Polish Legion (Legiony Polskie) under the Austrian command during WWI.
		After the war involved with the para-military organization "Sokol" which was training Polish youth in the basics of military readiness.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Quarters/7414/person.html (500 words)

	BBC - Hereford and Worcester Features - News from the Polish community in North Worcestershire
		The forth Polish Festival is being held at Bletchley Park on the 14th of July
		The big July event for the Polish community in UK is the fourth Polish Festival at Bletchley Park — home of the famous wartime “enigma” code breaking machine - on Sunday 14th July.
		Exhibition of the odyssey of the Polish 2nd Corps including the Battle of the Monte Cassino · Exhibition of the Polish WW II uniforms, medals and combatants standards.
	www.bbc.co.uk /herefordandworcester/features/2002/07/poland.shtml (331 words)

	Without Vodka, by Aleksander Topolski - Q&A
		But I must emphasize the role of the Polish Government-in-Exile in London, under the leadership of Sikorski, and the part played by General Anders, who had served in the Tsar's army in WWI and understood the Russian temperament.
		In the top two years of Polish high school (ie liceum, where boys were usually 16 to 18 years old), the military training program was compulsory for boys, except those excused for medical reasons.
		For example the NCO ranks in the new Polish army were shown by bars on the shoulder straps and not by chevrons on the sleeve as in most other armies.
	www.withoutvodka.com /hist.htm (2264 words)

	Classic Buffalo Veterans Monument
		With American and Polish banners waving in a cool lake breeze during a bright sun-filled day, his Excellency Bishop Henry J. Mansell of the Buffalo Catholic Diocese blessed the stone memorial after extolling the courage of the Polish people.
		The main address was given by Janusz Krzyzanowski, national commander, Polish Veterans of WW II, SPK, who reminded all that it was the first time in history that the armed victors were not allowed to return to their home.
		"After defeating the Germans, the Polish armed forces that fought at the side of the Allies on land, on the seas and in the air were not allowed to return home by decree of the communist regime imposed on Poland with the tacit approval of the Allies," he said.
	www.classicbuffalo.com /VeteransMonument.htm (937 words)

	A Forgotten Odyssey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This book describes the political conflicts which marked the birth of the unit in Russian POW camps in 1942, its training in Iraq under British supervision and the heavy combat operations in Italy from the battle of Monte Cassino to victory at the River PO.
		Also covered is the monumental task of the Polish government in exile to find new homes for its men after the Russian occupation of their homeland.
		In 1933, three Polish mathematicians led by Marian Rejewski succeeded in breaking the German Enigma cipher, which the Germans considered unbreakable.
	www.aforgottenodyssey.com /books/military_ww2.htm (1038 words)

	Sosabowski Family Website
		HE was Chairman of many Polish Organisations, such as 'Sokol', a sports and gymnastics Association, and of the Boards of Governors of the local Schools, and other organisations.
		In November 1918, the Second Polish Republic was established, and the area in which we lived became a part of the new republic.
		On the basis of talks between General Sikorsky and Stalin, the Polish Government in Exile was given permission to organise a Polish Army in the U.S.S.R. in 1941.
	www.sosabowski.com /ludwigcv.html (3427 words)

	8th Polish Corps in 1813
		The campaign in Russia in 1812, was disastrous for the Polish Army.
		In early February 1813, Prince Poniatowski began organizing a new Polish corps (the future 8th corps) drawing on all available resources, including the remnants of the Poles who went into Russia and scattered French units.
		He was able to form a corps of two infantry and two cavalry divisions.
	www.napoleon-series.org /military/organization/c_8corps.html (364 words)

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