I'm interested in how much people living in the West know about Polish influence in the World War II history.

How much do you know about the German-Polish fights on September 1939? Have you heard about Westerplatte, or Bzura Battle?

Can you mention some of the biggest battles of Polish Army (on the all fronts of WW2), or which Polish Army had fought in?

Do you know what Polish Home Army was? Can you say what operation "Burza" ("Storm") was? Or the Warsaw Uprising in 1944? Or the uprising in Warsaw Getto?

Have you ever heard about the Polish submarine "Orzel" ("Eagle") and its escape from Baltic Sea?

Do you know what happened in Katyn?

And, finally, have you known that THE POLES deciphered German Enigma code?

I want only to check up how much do you know about Polish forces in the WW2. If you answered me, it would be nice [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 27. January 2004, 04:07 AM: Message edited by: Falcon ]

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Poland - first to fight...

I do think we have been through some of the above mentioned:

Katyn:

http://www.ww2forums.com/cgi-bin/ubb...=000046#000010

Warsaw uprising 1943

http://www.ww2forums.com/cgi-bin/ubb...=000760#000010

Warsaw uprising 1944

http://www.ww2forums.com/cgi-bin/ubb...=000781#000001

Still working on the huge amount of material I´ve got on this but maybe you Polish guys can help here.

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WE do know that the secrets of Enigma would maybe never have been available without the Polish work earlier!

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Orzel is known. If I recall it correct it first went to the Baltics from where it was forced to leave by Russian pressure and then probably went to Britain. I distantly recall it might have had some action in the Northern Norway-Murmansk area.

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During the years I have searched through the 1939 Polish battles several times but since I last did it is a long time ago. My main interest lies in the Barbarossa battles.

But I have read alot on the attrocities that took place during the German attack in 1939 and after that:

http://www.ww2forums.com/cgi-bin/ubb...=000295#000000

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And we know about the shipping of the Polish to Iran in 1942:

http://www.ww2forums.com/cgi-bin/ubb...683;p=6#000129

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Well, I did answer but it seems this thread did not accept it as has happened to many threads lately.

Anyway, we have discussed most of the things you mention and you can reach them by using the right upper hand corner Search engine.

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