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	Stanisław Maczek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After receiving brief officer's training, Maczek was sent to the Italian front of World War I. Initially an NCO in the Tyrolean Regiment of the K.u.K. Army, he was promoted to the rank of 2nd Lieut.
		Many of Maczek's men, including the general himself, found their way through Vichy France, North Africa and Portugal to the United Kingdom, where a Polish armoured unit was recreated, while others joined the Polish and French resistance organizations in France and Belgium.
		Maczek commanded the First Armoured until the end of the hostilities in Europe, and was named Major General that same year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanislaw_Maczek (2301 words)

	Juno Beach Centre - Major-General Stanislaw Maczek
		Stanislaw Wladyslaw Maczek, born in Lwòw, Poland, on March 31st, 1892; died in Edinburgh, Scotland, on December 11th, 1994.
		Through Maczek's and Sikorski's efforts, the 10th Brigade was born again on February 25th, 1942, this time as the 1st Polish Armoured Division under Maczek's command.
		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-ep.htm (696 words)

	WW2DB: Stanislaw Maczek
		Born in 1892 in Austrian Poland, Stanislaw Maczek attended Lwòw University between 1910 and 1914, studying literature and philosophy.
		Maczek’s men distinguished themselves at the battle of Montbard on 16 June 1940, but once again the fortunes of war left Maczek and his command fugitives and refugees.
		Maczek’s service to the Allied cause was all but forgotten and he was left without a home or prospects for the future.
	ww2db.com /person_bio.php?person_id=132 (906 words)

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		General Stanislaw Maczek (born March 31, 1892) was the last Commander of the First Polish Army Corps under Allied Command, and who previously led the famous First Polish Armored Division.
		Soon, his military talents became evident in the battles for the relief of the city of Lwow, under Ukrainian siege in 1918, and later in the struggle of the young Polish Republic to stop the invading armies of the Communist Russia led by Marshal Budienny.
		When Nazis invaded France in 1940, Gen. Maczek was given charge of the 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade, which fought bloody battles against the invader on June 16 and 17, and scored important victories in the vicinity of Montbard, and on the Burgundy Canal.
	www.polamjournal.com /Library/Biographies/maczek/maczek.html (636 words)

	Legion Magazine :Our Polish Comrades - Part 29
		Stanislaw Maczek’s 10th Mechanical Cavalry Brigade, which became the core of the Polish Armd.
		Maczek’s fears were realized on the afternoon of Aug. 8 when his leading armoured regiment lost 26 tanks in a few minutes.
		Maczek decided to send one battle group to Chambois and then block the exits by seizing the high ground at Mount Ormel-Coudehard, a hill the Poles would come to call the Maczuga or mace after its appearance on the contour maps.
	www.legionmagazine.com /features/canadianmilitaryhistory/00-01.asp (2200 words)

	NORMANDY, BELGIUM, HOLLAND AND WILHELMSHAVEN
		On August 15, General Maczek's tanks crossed the Dives River and raced to cut the three German escape routes southeast of Falaise.
		General Maczek preferred to command his troops from the leading tank, and he always sought to minimize damage to the towns which he liberated.
		General Maczek was one of the officers who accepted the surrender of the German forces.
	www.apacouncil.org /ww2/12nb.html (559 words)

	Poland in Exile - The Polish Army in Great Britain
		Surrounded, General Stanislaw Maczek ordered all tanks and artillery pieces to be destroyed in the woods at Moloy.
		With 500 men lightly armed men, General Stanislaw Maczek escaped to the south seeking ships in the unoccupied ports in order that at a later date re-form in Scotland.
		General Stanislaw Maczek had recognised the strategic importance of Mont Ormel and his decision to hold the escarpment and then descend into the valley to capture Chambois in effect closed the pocket.
	www.polandinexile.com /polisharmy.html (3104 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - 10th Polish Armoured Brigade
		It fought in southern Poland in 1939 under the command of Colonel Stanislaw Maczek, an officer of the regular Polish army.
		It was reformed in Scotland in 1942, after the fall of France, as a part of the 1st (Polish) Armoured Division which was commanded by the now Major-General Maczek.
		The Brigade's units were 1st (Polish) and 2nd (Polish) Armoured Regiments, the 24th Lancers and the 10th Dragoons as the Motor [infantry] Battalion.
	www.civilization.ca /cwm/armwar/units/11o10polisheng.html (181 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - 1st Polish Armoured Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		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.
		For further reading see: Stanislaw Maczek, Avec mes blindés, Paris: Presses de la Cité, 1967 and John Marteinson and Michael McNorgan, The Royal Canadian Armoured Corps: An Illustrated History, Robin Brass Studio, 2000.
	www.civilization.ca /cwm/armwar/units/11n1polisheng.html (192 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| World War II \| World War II: Closing the Falaise Pocket
		Stanislaw Maczek's Polish 1st Armored Division, it revived the distant hope that Western Allied forces might yet liberate their long-suffering country before the Soviet army did.
		Reorganized in France, the 10th Brigade fought with distinction until that country was overrun in June 1940.
		By the time they returned to France, Maczek and his men were eager to resume the fight.
	www.historynet.com /magazines/world_war_2/3024756.html (1452 words)

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	matthewainsworth.com /stanislaw.html (157 words)

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		Covering the retreat of Army Krakow and participating in counteroffensives in the Lwow area, Maczek and his men proved themselves more than a match for the Germans.
		Luckily for the Allied cause, General Stanislaw Maczek, the able commander of the 10th Mech, was among them.
		The Germans had planned to turn Breda into a fortress and defend it to the last, yet General Maczek was able to outmaneuver his opponent and force the Germans to retreat without leveling the city.
	dragoons10.tripod.com /1st.html (970 words)

	Kielce - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
		Thanks to the efforts by Stanislaw Staszic Kielce became the centre of the newly-established Old-Polish Industrial Zone (Staropolski Okreg Przemyslowy).
		During the Polish Defensive War of 1939 main part of the defenders of Westerplatte as well as armoured brigade of General Stanislaw Maczek were either from Kielce or from its close suburbs.
		During the occupation that lasted for most of the World War II the town was an important centre of resistance.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Kielce (1287 words)

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	freewebs.com /fonzariki/41/stanislaw.html (157 words)

	jazch10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Another group of Polish families, the mayor's family (Kurianskis), the Kowalskis (Wladyslaw and Ignacy), Grzesiowskis, Goldstaubs, Piwowarskis, Staneckis, Baczynskis and some nuns from the convent and assorted others - twenty families in all - were deported to the steppes of Khazakstan to work in collective farms.
		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.
		Its history and wartime activities were described in brief by one of its members, Stanislaw Garczynski.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/w/x/wxk116/sjk/jazch10.html (7007 words)

	D-Day
		The First Armored was formed and trained in Scotland by Polish General Stanislaw Maczek, a seasoned expert in the art of armored warfare, whose exploits dated back to the Russo-Polish War in 1920.
		Though Maczek's men represented a vast diversity of backgrounds, they all had one common goal in mind: they were there to join the Polish armed forces so that they may fight their dreaded enemy and take revenge on Hitler.
		The Division's ultimate moment of glory arrived on May 6th, 1945, when the units of the 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade, commended by Col. Anthony Grudzinski, captured Wilhemshaven, principal port of the German Navy, and accepted the surrendered of the entire German garrison, including 200 ships.
	www.polamjournal.com /Library/APHistory/D-Day/d-day.html (3008 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		This incident pertained to the later Polish hero of World War Two, Gen. Stanislaw Maczek, who at the time in the rank of lieutenant commanded an infantry platoon.
		The rescued group was moved under a protective escort to a safer territory, west of Jazlowiec, held by the Polish forces.
		This little story became a legend among the Polish people of Jazlowiec, in which the unit's commander grew to be a hero, known to them only as brave and chivalrous Polish officer from Lwow.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/w/x/wxk116/sjk/jazch9.html (3381 words)

	Blitzkrieg - Free net encyclopedia
		Early attempts to defeat the blitzkrieg can be dated to the Polish September Campaign in 1939, where Polish general Stanisław Maczek, commander of 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade, prepared a detailed report of blitzkrieg tactics, its usage, effectiveness and possible precautions for the French military from his experiences.
		Later, Maczek would become one of the most successful Allied armoured forces commanders in the war.
		During the Battle of France in 1940, De Gaulle's 4th Armour Division and elements of the British Armour Brigade in the British Expeditionary Force both made probing attacks on the German flank, actually pushing into the rear of the blitzkrieging armored columns at times (See Battle of Arras (1940)).
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Blitzkrieg (5221 words)

	Maczek on D-Day
		The First Armored was formed and trained in Scotland by Polish General Stanislaw
		Polish General Stanislaw Maczek (left) visits with General Dwight D. Eisenhower in May 1944.
		As part of Poland's military command organizing on Allied soil, Gen. Maczek formed and trained Poland's First Armored Division in Scotland.
	homepage.mac.com /carpetback/iblog/C1076145841/E1714762550/index.html (171 words)

	SPK Post No. 33 - Polish Armed Forces WWII
		The Second Corps was formed of those who were released from Russian gulags after Germany invaded Russia in 1941.
		This was followed by fighting in Normandy which included the 1st Polish Armored Division under the command of General Stanislaw Maczek as well as the Polish Independent Parachute Brigade under General Stanislaw Sosabowski's command in Operation Market Garden at Arnhem-Driel.
		The Polish military participated in active combat on land, in the air and on all the seas of the world.
	www.classicbuffalo.com /spk.htm (1703 words)

	Breda - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		The shops and a shopping mall are located here.
		The city is also home to a museum devoted to General Stanislaw Maczek and the Polish 1st Armoured Division.
		Breda has train stations Breda and Breda-Prinsenbeek, providing connections with Zuid-Holland (Dordrecht - Rotterdam - Den Haag) and Tilburg - Eindhoven, and from station Breda also to Roosendaal with connection to Vlissingen and Antwerp.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Breda (1177 words)

	News: Polish Leopard 2 delivery is major NATO milestone - Frugal's World of Simulations
		Germany will provide training for about 490 Polish crew members and maintenance personnel.
		The 10th (Lt Gen Stanislaw Maczek) Armoured Cavalry Brigade received the following during a ceremony at its Swietoszow barracks: 15 Leopard 2A4s; 10 UNIMOG (universal motorised vehicle) 1300Ls for company maintenance personnel; and 30 Mercedes-Benz 1170 vehicles for the brigade's logistics battalion.
		The brigade is assigned to Germany's 7th Armoured Division, which is allocated to NATO's Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC).
	forums.frugalsworld.com /vbb/showthread.php?t=30469 (315 words)

	The World at War - Poland Timeline 1918-52
		President Stanislaw Wojciechowski meets Pilsudski in the middle of Kierbedz Bridge and tells the Marshal that the Government is prepared to meet force with force.
		Red Army crosses the Vistula forty miles south of Warsaw.
		Polish 1st Armored Division under Major General Stanislaw Maczek arrives in Normandy.
	worldatwar.net /timeline/poland/18-52.html (5040 words)

	Wysoka Information with Translation from Slownik Geograficzny
		It first appeared on a map in 1558.
		The first know ascent of the mountain was in 1782 by Jowin Fryderyk Boncza Bystrzycki, court astronomer of King Stanislaw Poniatowski.
		“In the village you can find a monument to the heroes lead by Colonel Stanislaw Maczek who defended the local people against the Nazi invaders on the first two days of September 1939.
	www.john.rys.name /wysoka_translation.htm (1890 words)

	Amazon.com: BLACK DEVILS MARCH - A DOOMED ODYSSEY: The 1st Polish Armoured Division 1939-1945: Books: Evan McGilvray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		I was really eager to learn something about General Maczek and the 1st (and only) Polish Armoured Division in the Second World War.
		Unfortunately, this book failed to live up to my expectations.
		I know no more about General Maczek now, after reading the book, than I did before, except that he is the only World War 2 Polish General to live to see Poland regain its freedom.
	www.amazon.com /BLACK-DEVILS-MARCH-Division-1939-1945/dp/1874622426 (1131 words)

	Poland's History and Vehicle Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Polish tanks were spread in the infantry divisions and in cavalry brigades.
		There was the 10th (Motorized) Cavalry brigade that was led by Colonel Stanislaw Maczek.
		Tanks of World War II, Duncan Crow, 1979
	www.wwiivehicles.com /poland (135 words)

	Finding help for making a new mod - Page 3 - Close Combat Org Forums
		Re: Finding help for making a new mod
		General Stanislaw Maczek, the commander of Polish 1st Armoured Division
		Last edited by El Comendante : 30th December 2003 at 12:14 AM.
	www.closecombat.org /forums/showthread.php?p=18137 (439 words)

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