coastal defences initially along the coast between Fife and Angus and being re-trained on British equipment, which was in desperate short supply. The Island of On 28 September 1944, east of Antwerp, the Regiment engaged the enemy along with units of the 3rd Infantry Brigade. The country-side was heavily wooded and mined. The Germans defense consisted of many anti-tank guns and artillery. The odds were in the enemy's favor. They captured Baarle-Nassau and Alphen after a battle that lasted for 5 days. On the 11th November the Regiment moved to Oploo north of Overloon higher up the Maas, rejoining 3rd Division who were clearing the left bank of the river after two very tough battles for Overloon and Venraij. This period was comparatively uneventful for the regiment with specilist shoots in surport of patrols and small engagements. One of these was the "Castle" of Geesteren which was obstinately defended by young cadets. In the course of this action the Regiment gained its third M.C. adwarded to John Marnham On the 7th December the Regiment moved to La Hulpe south-east of Brussels not far from Waterloo where time was taken to clean all the guns and vechiles. The Polish forces reorganized in the Soviet Union in March 1942 and the name Anders' Army was the informal yet common name of the Polish Armed Forces in the East in the period 1941–42, in recognition of its commander Władysław Anders.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Polish Army was under the command of Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Rokossovsky, who was given the additional title Marshal of Poland and was also Minister of National Defense. It was increasingly tied into the Soviet structures however this process was stopped in the aftermath of the Polish October in 1956. On the 19th of August Lieutenant-Colonel Koszutski’s group, reinforced by the 9th Battalion of the Light Infantry, arrived on Hill 262. On the night of August 19th/20th, therefore, two armoured regiments and three battalions of light infantry held this strategic position. It was to be a terrible night.The Polish First Army participated in the Vistula–Oder Offensive and the Battle of Kolberg (1945) before participating in its final offensive with the Battle of Berlin, and later became the armed force of the Polish communist government of Poland after the German surrender. The Polish Second Army entered combat in 1945 during the final Soviet offensive into Germany. In the last month of the war the 1st Polish Armoured Corps equipped with 195 T-34-85 tanks fought in eastern Germany during the battle of Bautzen. It was necessary to obtain reinforcements from every possible source and there was still insufficient time for training in units. The situation improved only during the long winter break from 1944 to 1945. At the same time there arrived new armored equipment that required a dose of training too (different ballistic properties of 76 mm guns in Shermans IIa). During the short campaign in April 1945 the Division once again proved its worth, despite the fact soldiers and officers were bitterly disappointed with the provisions of the Yalta Conference.

Churchill who arranged for him to be flown out of Bordeaux by an RAF plane while the Polish President and members of the government were embarked upon the It had advanced 524km in 12 days. In the process, it had destroyed many German columns and captured large numbers of prisoners. In September 1939, as the German troops approached, he left home carrying his pistol and with his father’s words resonating in his mind: “I may not see you again. In life, go straight.” He took the car and drove his sister to a maternity clinic in Warsaw. Unknown to her, her husband, a cavalry officer, had already been killed defending the city. The TK-3 (TK) and TKS light turretless reconnaissance tanks, commonly called tankettes (in Polish: tankietka), were the most numerous armoured vehicles of the Polish Army at the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. Their number of over 500 vehicles constituted formally a significant tank force. Unfortunately, they were not fully capable tanks, and, apart from few cannon-armed ones, could not fight against other armoured fighting vehicles.moved towards the faltering ‘front’ to Camp de Satory where they were equipped with new Renault R35 tanks while the cavalry took up positions at Arpagon. Half an hour later it was dawn. I went to sleep literally standing up. Suddenly my signaller woke me and I started: “Captain, I can hear our tanks!”

Germany 1945 [ edit ] The 1811 kilometer route taken by the 1st Armoured Regiment from landing in Normandy to the end of the war in Germany.The 1st Grenadier Division in Alsace formed part of the French 20th Corps and while the French army crumbled with troops simply walking away from the fight, general Otto Elfeldt, commander of the German LXXXIV Corps, taken as a POW by riflemen of the 10th Mounted Rifle Regiment during the battle around Chambois) M4A3 (105) HVSS Sherman IVBY medium tank (The Sherman was the basic tank in Polish armoured units in the West 1943-1947. The 2nd Warsaw Armored Brigade, fighting in Italy, used M4A2 Sherman III, later also M4 Sherman I, M4 Sherman IC Firefly, M4A1 Sherman II and M4A3 (105) HVSS Sherman IVBY.) Always known as Zbyszek, he was raised in the traditions of the landed gentry, surrounded by noble and religious icons and educated at schools in Warsaw and Wloclawek. allowed the French 20th and 59th Infantry Divisions to escape through the St. Gond marshes. On 15th June the brigade crossed the river Seine at Bar sur Seine

I am currently doing genealogy research, and was wondering if you might be able to help direct me on two questions.M4A2 Sherman III medium tank (The Sherman was the basic tank in Polish armoured units in the West 1943-1947. The 2nd Warsaw Armored Brigade, fighting in Italy, used M4A2 Sherman III, later also M4 Sherman I, M4 Sherman IC Firefly, M4A1 Sherman II and M4A3 (105) HVSS Sherman IVBY.) The Polish military leader in exile, General Sikorski, named General Władysław Anders as commander of the new army. the Germans. General Sikorski had declined General Weygand’s appeal to throw in all remaining Polish troops into battle. Sikorski appealed in a letter to