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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 Polish II Corps was created in 1943 from various units fighting alongside the Allies on all theatres of war.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2nd_Polish_Corps (812 words)

	Polish II Corps: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		During 1944-1945 the Corps fought on the Italian front, most notably during the Battle of Monte Cassino (Battle of Monte Cassino: in world war ii, the battle of monte cassino (also known as the battle for rome) was...
		The forces of the 2nd Polish Corps were crucial in breaking the Gustav Line (Gustav Line: the winter line was a series of german military fortifications in italy, constructed...
		Polish 3rd Carpathian Infantry Division (Polish 3rd Carpathian Infantry Division: more facts about this subject) CO (CO: A hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition) : Maj.Gen. (Maj.Gen. : major general is a military rank used in many countries....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/polish_ii_corps1 (1307 words)

	2nd Korpus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Meanwhile, Polish refugees, reinforced by Polish volunteers from all over the world, had already fought valiantly in the armies at Narvik, in France in 1940, in the Western Desert and, in the air, in the Battle of Britain.
		Polish infantry charging up the Phantom Hill (Monte Cassino)In 1944 the Corps was transferred from Egypt to Italy, where it became an independent part of the British Eighth Army under General Oliver Leese.
		The problem was solved by enlisting Poles from POW camps – men from the Polish territory annexed by Germany in 1939 who had later forcibly been recruited into the Wehrmacht, and subsequently captured by the Allies, the Polish Corps swelled from 45,000 men to a force of 110,000.
	www.mpvone.co.uk /polish/2ndcorpus.htm (1369 words)

	Lest We Forget - Poland in World War II
		The Polish 1st Armored Division, with its Canadian comrades, was given the task of breaking the German line and completing the encirclement of the Germans.
		Many more mass graves of Polish officers, soldiers and civilians are in the old Soviet Union, yet their location is known only to the perpetrators, most of whom are long dead, many by the same methods they used on Poles.
		Polish soldiers in the west could not return home, for they were branded traitors by the new communist regime.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/9764/warpoland.html (2486 words)

	Anniversary of a betrayal \| The-Tidings.com
		General Wladyslaw Anders' Polish II Corps won the fourth and decisive Battle of Monte Cassino, clearing the way for the Allied liberation of Rome.
		As Pope John Paul II put it in Warsaw in 1979, "We cannot forget the heroism of the Polish soldier who fought on all the world's fronts 'for our freedom and yours.' We [remember] with respect and gratitude...all those who extended us their assistance.
		The London-based Polish government-in-exile was treated like a fractious child rather than the legitimate representative of a stalwart ally that had bled, profusely, in the Allied cause.
	www.the-tidings.com /2004/0806/difference.htm (752 words)

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		The II Corps is engaged in holding against strong Geram counterattacks in the Ostheim, Guemar and Mittelwihr sectors.
		The V Corps is fully occupied holding its position north of the breakthrough and delaying the German offensive, which continues to gain ground slowly towards Malmedy.
		In the VIII Corps sector, hope of relieving the 422nd and 423rd Regiments of the 106th Division in Schnee Eifel fades.
	quake.southwesternadventist.edu /Politics/MiscPhotos/dec1944.txt (10135 words)

	A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: The Forgotten Heroes of World War Two, by Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		November – Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt secretly agree at the Tehran Conference to cede eastern Poland to Stalin.
		May 18-- The Polish II Corps captures Monte Cassino, opening the door to Rome.
		July 5 – The United States and Britain withdraw formal recognition from the Polish government-in-exile in London and recognize the Soviet-backed, communist regime in Warsaw as the legitimate government of Poland.
	www.questionofhonor.com /timeline.htm (616 words)

	General Wladyslaw Anders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Captured by the Russians after the partition of Poland in 1939, Anders was released from the Lubianka prison in 1941 to lead the Polish POWs from Russia into Persia, where the British had offered to arm and equip them to fight against the Germans in the Western Desert.
		The resulting corps, Polish II Corps, became one of the most redoubtable military formations of the war.
		Most of II Corps chose exile at the end of the war, and Anders remained leader of their community in England until his death.
	www.expage.com /wladyslaw (128 words)

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		The offensive is to begin west of the Cotentin peninsula by the VII Corps and extend eastward to all of the other units in the army.
		The XIX Corps push towards St Lo continues at a slower pace because the 39th Division is facing strong resistance in the Pont-Hebert sector.
		East of Caen the British I Corps and German LXXXVI Corps are engaged in heavy combat.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/wwii/50.years.ago/jbd/jul1944.txt (10242 words)

	Invasion of Anzio
		XIII Corps initial success was marred by the fact their engineers only managed to build two bridges across the river on the first day, and a third on May 13th.
		It was not until the night of the 17th that the Polish troops attacked again, threatening to outflank the town form the north, and Kesselring ordered the 1st Parachute Division to withdraw.
		Once a Polish patrol took out several positions occupied by the 1st Parachute, the Polish commander Anders' fed a whole assault into the position and after fighting throughout the 17th with bayonets, grenade and submachine gun, the Poles held the position.
	home.centurytel.net /amlegionlacrosse/anzio.htm (816 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)

	The Polish Army 2nd Corps - The Unforgetable General Anders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Negotiations between Stalin, Churchill, and the Polish forces led to the transfer of the II Polish Corps to Iran under British control.
		Soldiers of the II Polish Corps, if it had been given to me to choose the soldiers I would like to command, I would have chosen the Poles.
		As Commanding General of the Second Polish Corps, General Anders brilliantly led his men in the final overwhelming drive that resulted in the retreat of the German Army from the strongly defended Cassino.
	www.mpvone.co.uk /polish/anders.htm (1546 words)

	New Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It was intended that the troops in the beachhead there should be relieved by an offensive from the Cassino position which had been attacked by the US II Corps in January, and from across the Garigliano, which was stormed by the British X Corps on 17 January.
		The next two, by the New Zealand II Corps in February, and by the 2nd New Zealand and 4th Indian Divisions in March, also failed.
		Finally it was attacked on 11 May by the Polish II Corps which, after a week of terrible fighting, finally secured the ruins of the monastery which had been devastated by aerial bombardment preceding the third battle.
	www.ggholiday.com /bg/History/Cassino_history.htm (301 words)

	LETTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Their hegira, Harold Macmillan said, was a "classic of military prowess and courage." Now II Corps was a key ele-ment in Britain's Eighth Army, struggling up the Italian boot.
		The men of II Corps and their commander, General Wladyslaw Anders, were particularly determined to put the lie to the barrage of Soviet propaganda in the West variously condemning the Poles as trai-tors, Nazi collaborators, and cowards who had been afraid to face the Germans in combat.
		II Corps was asked to take on the most difficult challenge: capturing Monte Cassino itself.
	www.citinet.net /ak/polska_78_f2.html (1287 words)

	Closing the Falaise Pocket
		The Polish 1st and the Canadian 4th Armored divisions were given the task of breaking through German lines in order to cut off enemy supply lines and road junctions.
		On August 15, the Polish 1st Armored Division was transferred to the eastern flank of the II Canadian Corps.
		On the night of August 16, the 90th Infantry Division, situated at Le Bourg St. Leonard, was released from the Third Army's XV Corps and assigned to a provisional corps to assist in closing the Falaise pocket.
	www.thehistorynet.com /wwii/blfalaise (1452 words)

	WW 2 Model Maker's This week in WWII History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Armoured Divisions of the British IX Corps succeed in sweeping behind the Axis forces in Djebel Bou Aoukaz.
		This week in WW II history, General Erwin Romel "the Desert Fox," continues his advance into Libya, signaling the beginning of what nine days later will become its recapture by the Axis forces.
		With the Japanese distracted by the first corps, the second corps took Meiktila on March 3, 1945, and Mandalay fell on the 20th.
	www.ww2modelmaker.com /wwhis.htm (6578 words)

	'Shorts and Overs' • Brief Notes
		The II Polish Corps had its origin among the Polish POWs in the Russian prison camps.
		About 40,000 Polish military personnel and their families were allowed to transfer to the British-controlled sector of Iran.
		General Wladeslav Anders, who commanded the Polish troops in exile, made it known that when he died his mortal remains were to be returned to Cassino and there interred with his men.
	www.milhist.net /shortsovers.html (1523 words)

	18 May 1944
		In the two weeks before the attack, the Polish II Corps under General Wladyslaw Anders was under constant observation by the German defenders and losing as many as 30 men in a day as it prepared to attack.
		When the moment came to storm the heights on 12 May, the Poles lost a fifth of their strength within the first 90 minutes of battle and were forced to withdraw when communications failed.
		Near the coast, the US II Corps was failing to make progress when the Germans suddenly began to withdraw.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1944/05/18.htm (645 words)

	Units & Organizations: US (Main Menu)
		The II Corps (usually written with Roman numerals) began its operations in North Africa.
		The VI Corps was the American half of the 5th Army invasion of Italy at Salerno.
		Willis D. Crittenberger, and the U.S. II Corps in the east, under Maj. Gen.
	custermen.com /ItalyWW2/ArmyOrg/AlliesOrg.htm (2986 words)

	Role of Poland in World War II [Free Republic]
		While the Polish, French, and British were primarily working on Germany's ciphers, the US Signals Intelligence Service (SIS) was hard at work on the Japanese version of the Enigma.
		Polish garrison made a trap: heavy machine guns suddenly cut the first units preventing them from retreating and unabling next units advancing.
		The Polish statement was striking not only for its content but because it had been drafted under the authority of Jaruzelski—a communist leader installed under Soviet protection.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b91a3703524.htm (13186 words)

	The German War Machine at Cisterna; 1944
		The battalions of the Nembo chose sides, according to the loyalty of the commanding officer and/or the leadership which either sided with the King or Mussolini.
		In the British 8th Army sector, the Senger line is breached by the Canadian I Corps who have pushed forward to the Aquino-Pontecorvo Road.
		The Polish II Corps enter Piedimonte San Germano.
	darbysrangers.tripod.com /id90.htm (1274 words)

	443rd AAA Bn - World War II - Rome-Arno Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Leading the II Corps advance were the 85th and 88th Divisions, attacking on a front extending from the Tyrrhenian Sea to east of Spigno.
		Another battalion of MA (105th) was assigned to protect Corps Artillery, with one battery on road defense.
		Under all of this Allied pressure and the fall of Cassino to the Polish II Corps under General Anders, the U.S. VI Corps was able to exploit the weakening German defense and broke out of the Anzio beachhead.
	www.kwanah.com /txmilmus/36division/archives/443/44374.htm (458 words)

	Poland not to withdraw troops from Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Polish army is based not on contracted, proffesional soldiers, but on conscription.
		Polish army is being under process of transition to NATO standards and not every unit is capable of going to Iraq mission.
		The II Corps, were commanded by Wladyslaw Anders, which, along with many other Poles, couldn't return home after the war because of the soviets denouncing them as "western spies" and such, usually meaning torture and execution for those who did return.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1270599/posts (1296 words)

	Archdiocese of Denver - DCR - Opinion
		There were a few supply drops from the RAF and the U.S. Army Air Force — most of the latter ended up in German hands.
		But on this sixtieth anniversary, we should remember that Warsaw was betrayed by Britain and the United States in 1944, for crude Realpolitik reasons.
		George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. Weigel's column is distributed by the Denver Catholic Register, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Denver.
	www.archden.org /dcr/news.php?e=91&s=3&a=2171 (634 words)

	EUROPEAN MILITARY RECORDS - Genealogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Persons who fought in Polish units in the First World War, the 1918-21 War and the Second World War who live or lived outside Poland (USA, Canada and France especially) were often members of this Association.
		WW II Polish Exile records are maintained by the Sikorski Institute.
		Anyone with POLISH, LITHUANIAN, UKRAINIAN, RUSSIAN or PRUSSIAN ancestry can request a search of the original documents relevant to the Polish, Lithuanian and Russian refugees who had fought in the Polish Revolution of 1830-1831 and who chose to emigrate to America rather that accept the "amnesty" offered by the Czar of Russia.
	maxpages.com /poland/Military_Records_Europe - !http://maxpages.com/poland/Military_Records_Europe (954 words)

	AIRLIFT IN THE DOMINICAN CRISIS
		When one parachute infantry regiment, preceded by reconnaissance troops, gained 25 miles the first day, the corps commander put a special task force composed of two battalions of Rangers in the lead, while the airborne division merely blocked to the north to cover assembly of an armored division that was to be committed later.
		Although historical records of World War II airborne units contain no complaints about lack of continuity, one notes that the keepers of the record make a special point of mentioning those occasions when units were attached for long periods.
		In all cases, airborne divisions in ground operations were attached to corps and in turn to army, so that deficiencies presumably could have been met by units from the superior headquarters.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/documents/abnops/tabb.htm (3412 words)

	D-Day
		The Polish Division was already in action since August 8th as part of the Second Canadian Corps, commanded by General Guy Simmonds.
		In that attack, Polish armored units suffered heavy losses in the personnel and equipment but again succeeded in frustrating all enemy attempts to penetrate their lines.
		Now that Poland has regained her political freedom and achieved full independence, the Polish nation is able to charter her own course among the free nations of the world.
	www.polamjournal.com /Library/APHistory/D-Day/d-day.html (3008 words)

	The Unknown Patton Chapter Thirteen (Patton's Quotes)
		General Anders of the Polish II Corps told me laughingly that if he got between a German Army and a Russian Army, he would have difficulty deciding which they should fight.
		The 15th Corps could have easily entered the town of Falaise and completely closed the gap to Argenten, but we were ordered not to do this.
		General Anders of the Polish II Corps told me that if his Corps got between a German Army and a Russian Army he would have trouble deciding which direction to fight.
	www.pattonhq.com /unknown/chap13.html (18478 words)

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