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	Polish 1st Armoured Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the early stages the division was stationed in Scotland and guarded approximately 200 kilometres of British coast.
		The division twice suffered serious bombings by Allied aircraft yet it achieved a brilliant victory against the Wehrmacht in the battles for Mont Ormel, 262 Hill and the town of Chambois.
		Polish tanks of the 10th Mounted Rifle Regiment near Caen at the beginning of the Falais operation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1st_Polish_Armoured_Division (757 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - 1st Polish Armoured Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The 1st (Polish) Armoured Division was raised under the command of Major-General Stanislaw Maczek in 1942 in Scotland after the fall of France.
		This formation, included the 10th (Polish) Armoured Brigade (1st (Polish) and 2nd (Polish) Armoured Regiments and 24th Lancers) and the 3rd (Polish) Infantry Brigade (1st (Highland), 8th and 9th Polish Battalions) as well as an armoured reconnaissance regiment, the 10th (Polish) Mounted Rifles.
		The Division landed in France at the end of July 1944 as a part of II Canadian Corps, its most memorable action being the closing of the 'Falaise Gap' 19-22 August 1944.
	www.civilization.ca /cwm/armwar/units/11n1polisheng.html (192 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - Polish 1st Armoured Regiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Historical Sketch of the 1st (Polish) Armoured Regiment in Normandy
		The 1st (Polish) Armoured Regiment was raised in France on 2 December 1939 as the 1st Tank Battalion.
		Reformed on 13 August 1943 as the 1st Armoured Regiment, the unit landed in France in August 1944 as a part of the 10th (Polish) Armoured Brigade, 1st (Polish) Armoured Division.
	www.civilization.ca /cwm/armwar/units/11ppolisheng.html (231 words)

	Legion Magazine :Our Polish Comrades - Part 29
		Polish soldiers arriving in England in the aftermath of the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940 were quickly dispatched to Scotland where they became a colourful and welcome part of the wartime scene.
		The Polish and Canadian advance to Trun was slowed by battle groups of the 85th, 21st and 12th SS divisions, which were busy holding the northern edge of the Falaise Pocket.
		This small force, one armoured regiment and an infantry battalion, had penetrated deep into the German rear areas where it was repeatedly attacked by Royal Air Force Spitfires and Typhoons whose pilots had been briefed to bomb and strafe all movement in an area known to be occupied by the enemy.
	www.legionmagazine.com /features/canadianmilitaryhistory/00-01.asp (2200 words)

	Juno Beach Centre - Major-General Stanislaw Maczek
		On August 19th, 1944, the 1st Polish Armoured Division found itself ahead of the 1st Canadian Army as it was about to attempt its great thrust forward in order to close the Falaise Gap.
		On September 28th, 1944, the 1st Polish Armoured Division was placed under British command and redeployed in the Maas sector.
		General Maczek died in 1994, at the ripe age of 102; he is buried in the Polish military cemetery of Breda in the Netherlands.
	www.junobeach.org /e/3/can-pep-pol-maczek-e.htm (721 words)

	The Polish Air Force in Italy - Rimini - Spitfires 318 Squadron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Polish Independent Parachute Brigade under General Sosabowski had wanted to parachute into Poland to help the ill-fated rising in Warsaw that had broken out on the 1st August, 1944, but were dropped instead at Arnhem as part of operation "Market-Garden" to fight alongside the British 1st Airborne Division and to suffer the same defeat.
		Polish submarines patrolled the North Sea and the Mediterranean; Polish warships served in the Atlantic and Murmansk convoys; the Polish Navy saw service in the Narvik campaign, the Dunkirk evacuation, the assault on Dieppe, hunting the Bismark, the invasion of Sicily and the invasion of France on D-Day.
		The Polish 1st and 2nd Armies comprised of ten full infantry divisions, with another four in training, five artillery divisions, a cavalry brigade, an armoured corps and an air corps of fighter, bomber and ground assault aircraft.
	www.mpvone.co.uk /polish/polishquestion.htm (4121 words)

	Canadians in Belgium
		On September 21 the armoured divisions were directed to move northwards roughly along the line of the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal.
		The 4th Armoured was given the task of clearing the area left up to Breskens, while the 1st Polish Armoured headed for the Dutch-Belgian border and the crucial area north of Antwerp.
		The 4th Armoured Division had advanced from a hard-won bridgehead over the Ghent Canal at Moerbrugge to find themselves the first Allied troops to contemplate the formidable obstacle of the double line of the Leopold and Dérivation de la Lys Canals.
	users.skynet.be /advocaat.depickere/Text/canada.html (2957 words)

	Polonica Douglas
		He was commander of the 1st Polish Armoured Division from February 1942 until May 1945.
		He was given command of the 1st Polish Armoured Division which he formed in February 1942 in Scotland.
		In the campaigns in NW Europe the Division fought in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany.
	www.ostrycharz.free-online.co.uk /PolonicaGeneralMaczek.html (172 words)

	Capelsche Veer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The 1st Polish Armoured Division got the task to watch the frontline, existing of the river which is named successively Hollands Diep, Amer and Maas.
		The commander of the 1st Polish Armoured Division, General Stanisław Maczek, stated in his memoirs he hoped to get some rest during the coming months, in order to train the reinforcements and to be reequipped, but on the contrary, the Division had a very worryfull period till April 1945.
		These efforts, on the 31st of December 1944 and on the 7th of January 1945, failed however and the result was a great number of casualities.
	home.concepts.nl /~avalphen/bred/capveer.htm (417 words)

	Buffalo Veterans, Waldemar Czyz, First Polish Armor Division
		Disregarding the shouts of their guards, they all ran over to talk to the soldier and were informed of the 1941 prisoner exchange agreement with the Soviet government.
		Threatening to strike if not allowed freedom to proceed to the Polish gathering points, the Polish workers were released in groups of ten as the Russian authorities found other laborers to replace them.
		In 1984, Czyz opened the Polish Armed Forces Exhibit on the decommissioned light cruiser, USS Little Rock, in the Buffalo Naval and Serviceman's Park in Buffalo, New York.
	www.classicbuffalo.com /VeteransCzyz.htm (1121 words)

	DIZ - Kleine Reihe, Heft 4
		The new national enclave was to be controlled by the 1st Polish Armoured Division.
		This development plus the fact that the 1st Polish Armoured Division had taken up occupation duties in May 1945 exerted a magnetic appeal to thousands of Polish DPs and former prisoners of war from the outside.
		At the end of 1945 the proportion of foreigners accommodated in former concentration camps, POW camps and in requisitioned houses in the Emsland region was between 10 (Lingen district) and 28 percent (Aschendorf-Hümmling district).
	www.diz-emslandlager.de /reihe04.htm (464 words)

	Displaced Persons in the Emsland region 1945-50
		The Emsland, situated in the north-western part of Germany at the Dutch-German border, was liberated by British, Canadian and Polish units of the 2nd Canadian Army and the 30th British Corps.
		Before October 1946 the bulk of the Polish DPs in the Emsland region refused repatriation, yet the demobilization of the 1st Polish Armoured Division and their successive departure to Great Britain induced some of them to leave the Emsland.
		About 2,500 DPs, relatives of Polish soldiers left for England in the winter of 1946/47, thus having reduced the amount of Polish DPs in the Emsland region to 14,800 in April 1947.
	www.uni-oldenburg.de /diz/english/volume10.htm (1069 words)

	Ambassade Warschau - Defence veterans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Breda, which was liberated by the 1st (Polish) Armoured Division on 29 October 1944.
		In Breda itself and in the surrounding area there are a number of monuments and military graveyards, where the memories of those days are kept alive.
		At the Polish Military Field of Honour in Ginneken lie the graves of 80 Polish soldiers of the 1st (Polish) Armoured Division.
	www.mfa.nl /war/defensie (340 words)

	Polish Motorised Brigades of 1939
		This is a general order of battle of Polish 1939 motorised brigade, on the example of the 10th Cavalry Brigade.
		The commander was Colonel Stanislaw Maczek (later commander of the 10th Armoured Cavalry Brigade in France in 1940, and finally of Polish 1st Armoured Division, fighting from Falaise to Wilhelmshaven in 1944-45.
		Cavalry Bde was probably the most effective Polish unit - and its combat career showed clearly, that a well-trained motorised unit (and with a good commander) is able to achieve much more than an infantry division or cavalry brigade, especially in a favour terrain and in defence.
	derela.republika.pl /brigades.htm (1084 words)

	Cloggie :: Booklog :: Six Armies in Normandy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For the Americans, the airborne landings of the 101st Airborne Division on the eve of D-Day were taken, while the Canadians are represented by the 3rd Canadian Division on D-Day itself, landing at Juno.
		It is now the Polish 1st Armoured division Keegan follows in the story of the closure of the Falaise pocket.
		Finally, the story is concluded by the liberation of Paris by the Free French 2nd Armoured Division, followed by a quick recap of the rest of the war after it.
	www.cloggie.org /books/six-armies-in-normandy.html (505 words)

	World War Two Books — Military History Books online > The Black Devils' March: A Doomed Odyssey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Europe the Division achieved glory, honour and victory but was unable to liberate Poland owing to the politics of the post-war settlement in Europe.
		The account of the formation and combat service of the Division is fully researched from Polish, English and German sources, and includes training in Scotland, the unit’s sharp introduction to warfare in the Normandy bocage, the Falaise Gap and Hill 262, the advance into Belgium and Holland, and final victory on German soil.
		The politics of the Polish Army are examined as well as the historical legacy of the Polish soldier in exile.
	www.worldwartwobooks.com /product.php?xProd=56 (505 words)

	Polish Army
		Having experienced firsthand the German blitzkrieg tactics of rapid armoured attacks, the Polish Army appreciated the great importance of armoured units and the use of tanks in modem warfare.
		In consequence, in February 1942 the 1st Polish Armoured Division was established, with General Stanislaw Maczek as its Commanding Officer.
		However, the story of the Polish forces in East Lothian is not simply a catalogue of the units based in the county.
	www.eastlothianatwar.co.uk /PolishArmy.htm (809 words)

	eBay - 1st division patches, Militaria, Home Decor items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		1st Cavalry Division BIP beret flash non Airborne patch
		1st Cavalry Division BIP #2 flash non Airborne patch
		1st Infantry Division BIP flash non Airborne patch
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=1st+division+patches&... (469 words)

	A Forgotten Odyssey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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)

	War Museums - Mémorial de Montormel
		Focusing attention back to the battle itself, we find the German 2nd SS "Das Reich" division, the 5th and the 7th panzer army almost completely surrounded by British, Canadian and American troops.
		There however, the 1st Polish Armoured Division moved in, and saw wave after wave of Germans coming towards them.
		heeled armoured vehicle used by the "Free French" (the French troops under command of general De Gaulle) during the liberation of their homeland.
	www.warmuseums.nl /gal/078gal.htm (400 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - A Polish Battlefield
		My name is Mietek Herman; I am a sergeant commanding a Sherman tank in the 2nd Armoured Regiment, 1st Polish Armoured Division and today, August 17th, 1944 is my 31st birthday.
		“The Canadians’ diarist recorded that the scene they encountered when they relieved the Polish divisions was the most savage the regiment had ever encountered.
		During the next days, the bodies of 325 Polish soldiers killed in the battle of the Falaise Gap would be found makeshift graves near the positions where they had fallen.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/46/a2879346.shtml (1389 words)

	normandy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After the capitulation of the Germans on the 5th Mai in 1945, the 1st Polish Armoured Division remained in the North-West of Germany as the occupation-power as long as the Division was disbanded in 1947.
		From every regiment a book of a booklett appeared as a matter of course all of them in written in the Polish language.
		Only the four Armoured Regiments gave from their report an English version as well.
	home.concepts.nl /~avalphen/info/campaign.htm (102 words)

	News At Beck Isle Museum Of Rural Life, Pickering, Ryedale, North York Moors
		One of the aims of this project is to build a wartime period map of locations of defences and camps etc within the area.
		Bomber Command bases and personnel of No 6 Canadian Group, also units of The Polish 1st Armoured Division and The Guards Armoured Division are just some of the specific research areas we wish to document.
		It is so important to capture and record this period of our local history and heritage before it passes from living memory.
	beckislemuseum.co.uk /news (616 words)

	Scottish Military History Discussion Forum
		I'm looking for informations about the polish military base in Douglas Castle in 1940.The great-father of my wife was a polish soldier of general Maczek and i try to write his military past.I looking for some pictures (map) and some informations about the base.If you can help me,i"ll very happy.
		It was one of several locations around which the Polish Army was based in 1940, including units of the 10th Cavalry Brigade (10th Polish Armoured Brigade).
		The only reference I can find to this period is in The Order of Battle of Divisions, part 1 by Major AF Becke, p94, where it states that the division took part in the Moated Grange attack at Neuve Chappelle on 18th December 1914 as part of IV Corps.
	www.network54.com /Forum/6243/viewall-page-16 (6401 words)

	Stronghold Miniatures POLAND
		MICRO/P9 Free Polish 1st Armoured Div. Aug'44-1945, NW Europe
		Free Polish 1st Armoured Division, June-Sept 1944,; NW Europe
		Free Polish 1st Armoured Division, Oct 1944-; March 1945,; NW Europe
	stronghold-miniatures.co.uk /acatalog/Online_Catalogue_POLAND_301.html (188 words)

	Memorial de Montormel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hill 262, or Montormel, was defended by 1st Polish Armoured Division during the Battle of the Falaise Pocket in August 1944.
		The Memorial de Montormel is open every day from 1st May - 30th September from 09.00 - 18.00.
		Between 1st October and 30th April it is only open on Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays from 10.00 - 17.00.
	battlefieldsww2.50megs.com /memorial_de_montormel.htm (186 words)

	Veterans, Buffalo NY, Naval Park, soldiers
		NYS Division of Military and Naval Affairs - Army National Guard, Air National Guard, New York Guard, Naval Militia.
		New York State Division of Veterans Affairs - NYSDVA.
		There are also authentic WWII artifacts in the Polish Armed Forces exhibit aboard the USS Little Rock at the Buffalo Naval Park.
	www.classicbuffalo.com /Veterans.htm (789 words)

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