• The Polish Second Army (Polish: Druga Armia Wojska Polskiego, 2. AWP for short) was a Polish Army unit formed in the Soviet Union in 1944 as part of the...
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    Union in 1944, from the previously existing Polish I Corps in the Soviet Union, as part of the People's Army of Poland (LWP). The First Army fought westward...
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    May 1944 before the line was eventually broken by a combined assault of the Fifth and Eighth Armies (including British, American, French, Polish, and...
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    refuge to hundreds of Polish children rescued from Soviet camps (Gulags). The campsite is now part of the Sainik School. From 1944 to 1945, Daru Khan Badinzai...
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    the Polish Underground State. Estimates of the Home Army's 1944 strength range between 200,000 and 600,000. The latter number made the Home Army not only...
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    order to return to the ranks of the Army." Madeja, Witold (1984). The Polish Second Corps and the Italian Campaign 1944–1945. Game Publishing Company. p...
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    by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occurred in the summer of 1944, and it was led by the Polish resistance...
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    Dilemma Facing The Polish Armed Forces At The End Of The Second World War.Chapter 1 Steven Zaloga (1982). The Polish Army 1939–45. Osprey Publishing....
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    September 15–16, 1944. This was MacArthur's one base that was within bomber range of the southern Philippines. U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Army as well as...
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    to as the Polish anti-communist insurrection fought between 1944 and 1953, was an anti communist and anti-soviet armed struggle by the Polish Underground...
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    December 1944, the Allies launched several offensives into Burma. American and Chinese forces advancing from northernmost Burma linked up with armies of the...
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    Gwardia Ludowa First Polish Army (1944–1945) Polish People's Army Polish Combatants' Association (United States) Western betrayal Polish British Civilian...
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    Poland, the resistance movement during World War II was led by the Home Army. The Polish resistance is notable among others for disrupting German supply lines...
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    000 by 1944. Grzegorz Ostasz, The Polish Government-in-Exile's Home Delegature. Article on the pages of the London Branch of the Polish Home Army Ex-Servicemen...
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    German casualties between September 1939 to 31 December 1944, on the Western Front for both the army, Waffen SS, and foreign volunteers amounts to 128,030...
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    Wojtek (bear) (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
    out of the Polish Army and lived out the rest of his life at the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland. In the spring of 1942 the newly formed Anders' Army left the...
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    occupied Warsaw and the Polish Committee of National Liberation in July 1944 in Lublin, after the arrival of the Soviet army. The Soviet Union kept the...
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    the Second World War the army was the main British contribution to the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 and advance across Europe. The Second Army was...
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    March 1944, UPA insurgents mortally wounded front commander Army General Nikolai Vatutin, who captured Kiev when he led Soviet forces in the Second battle...
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    The Hungarian Second Army (Második Magyar Hadsereg) was one of three field armies raised by the Kingdom of Hungary which saw action during World War II...
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    and British forces. Berling's Army, formed in the USSR in 1944, remained there and fought under Soviet command. The Polish government in exile, based first...
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    captured in 1944 in Hungary and several hundred POWs from the Polish People's Army captured in 194445 were also killed." In February 1945, during the breakthrough...
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    Europe were assigned. It served on the Western Front from July 1944 until May 1945. The army was formed in early 1942, replacing the existing unnumbered...
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    Falaise pocket (category Western European Campaign (1944–1945))
    (German: Kessel von Falaise; 12–21 August 1944) was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War. Allied forces formed a pocket...
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    The Polish–Soviet War (late autumn 1918 / 14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet...
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    Polish army was to be encircled and destroyed west of the Vistula. Fall Weiss was initiated on 1 September 1939 and was the first operation of Second...
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  • counterattack by the German II SS Panzer Corps failed to dislodge the British Second Army around Caen. When Gerd von Rundstedt phoned Berlin to report the failure...
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    During the Second World War, the British Army created several field armies. There were formations that controlled multiple army corps, which in turn controlled...
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    As the German army retreated during the later stages of the Second World War, many of the urban areas of what is now Poland were severely damaged as a...
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    This article deals with the history and development of tanks of the Polish army from their first use after World War I, into the interwar period, during...
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