More info relating to the Battle of Warsaw (1920)
And don't forget this. Aug 18-21 2006 will mark the 62nd Anniversary of the Polish 1st Armored Divisions battle to close the Falaise Gap, This battle is the accepted end point of the Normandy Campaign in World War 2 that started with the June 6th D Day invasion.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/46/a2879346.shtml
The Canadians; diarist recorded that the scene they encountered when they relieved the Polish divisions was the most savage the regiment had ever encountered. The Poles had received no supplies for three days; they had several hundred wounded whom they had been unable to evacuate and they held some eight hundred prisoners. The road was jammed with burnt out vehicles, theirs and the enemys. There were corpses everywhere, unburied and dismembered. Amid these horrors, the Polish Commander received the Canadians shaking with emotion. His soldiers told long stories to the Canadians, who did not understand a word but roared with laughter all the same. 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. On the summit of The Mace, sappers of the Royal Canadian Engineers, in tribute to their comrades-in-arms, erected a makeshift signboard. It bore, in English, the simple inscription: "A Polish Battlefield"
Great Photos, lizol. Sto lot!
Poland Bump.
Thanks for the great pictures.