You may laugh at many things related to Poland, but it shouldn't be Polish cavalry.
Polish cavalry
Posted on 11/05/2007 11:50:17 AM PST by lizol
For an idea as to how it should be done:
goarmy.com
MV
Question: How do you stop a Polish army on horseback?
Answer: Turn off the carousel.
Great wisdom from a bubblehead.
The Polish army saved Europe from Islam in the Battle of Vienna, and from Communism in the “Miracle on the Vistula.”
The Polish army saved Europe from Islam in the Battle of Vienna, and from Communism in the “Miracle on the Vistula.”
Learn to charge tanks on horseback!
Q: How do you know if a Pole has been using a computer?
A: There’s whiteout on the screen.
My uncle was 6’8” tall and polish, he could have told you a million of them.
Don’t you mean in the Miracle of the Fistula?
Hmmm. Which part of Europe was spared Communism by
the Polish army?
From 1945-ca1990, EEurope was under Communist dominion.
In that same time period, WEurope was under US dominion.
Seems like the Polish army spared EEurope from capitalism
for a period of time.
MV
Don’t forget they also put up a hell of a fight against the Mongols as well.
Hitler laughed. Cavalry be no match for Stuka divebombers and
Panzers.
In fact, mounted cavalry did not stand up well (no pun intended)
when the other side started targeting the horses. Cavalrymen
on the ground were mere footsoldiers w/ long knives.
Shoot the G**%$#@ horses!
MV
Maybe, but it was a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants behavior.
Or, more appropriately, fly-from-your-poor-dead-horse
behavior.
I have seen photos of Polish Cav assaulting German Panzers only
to be left slaughtered. Sheer madness. Sheer stupidity. Someone
somewhere along the chain of command should have realized the
futility.
And the Polish Cav on the ground were no more effective against
the Germans than they were when mounted.
An interesting question arose when viewing those
pics of PolCav vs GerArmor. What exactly were they going to
do w/ their sabres once they got to the tank?
MV
Mounted charges against an infantry unit equipped w/ several
then-modern machine guns was still madness. Again, it boils down
to
SHOOT THE G**%$#@ HORSES.
That’s why Poland fell in a matter of days. Was not the German advance
thru Poland the record for territory covered in a single day
prior to the US run to Baghdad in 2003?
BLITZKRIEG!
MV
Despite of the propaganda pictures of mechanized units, many (if not most) units in WW2 on the German, Polish and Russian side relied on horsepower. We don´t see many pics from horses in WW2, because it wasn´t favourable to show “old-fashioned” horses. My Grandpa had three horses during the war, he was a engineer in the first line of the eastern front, preparing/checking the roads and brigdes for the use of tanks. All of his horses saved his life - two times by taking the bullets/grenades for him, and one time by providing horsemeat (that was on the retreat). Horrible times.
By the way, your coming Prime Minister really seems to be a good guy we can work with. And congratulations for the highest participation rate in free Polish elections ever! That expresses a lot about the stability of the Polish democracy.
We will build a center about expulsion, and it would be better if Poland worked with us on it, so that the expulsions in Europe (East Poland included!) can be documented.
I read where they had been told that the tanks were just paper mache.
Easy to fix: Find leaders like General Stani Sosabowski, and the youngsters will reenlist just to be around them.
With too few free Poles to form a division in England, then 49-year-old Colonel Sosabowski attended and passed the para training course, and formed the free poles into the 1st Independent Parachute Brigade.
Promoted to General to lead them, Sosobowski jumped with his men into Arnhem during the failed British-planned Operation Market-Garden, then was used by the British as a scapegoat for their failure.
No matter. Poles know, particularly the ones who jump out of airplanes. He was known then and is still as Papa Sosabowski
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