Polish flag over Berlin, 2nd May 1945, public domain When the bullets from Polish cannons and series of bullets from PPSh drove the Nazis from the...
2 May 1945, Polish flag over Berlin
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Pokazuję wyniki dla: Second World War
21 April 1945, The last victory of the II Corps
After fierce combats in the northern part of the Italian Peninsula, Polish soldiers triumphantly entered Bologna.
16 April 1945, The Oder was ahead of them
The last weeks of the World War Two in Europe. Last, but critical engagements, and at the same time, more victims. In the morning of 16 April 1945 the operation of crossing the Oder river started, in which soldiers of the First Polish Army took part. Among the Polish units the First Infantry Division was present, a division which one and a half year earlier was sent to fight in the battle of Lenino.
11.04.1943 – When the truth came out…
On April 11, 1943, the first news about the crime committed in the forest near Katyn was released to the world.
18.05.1944 – The Polish flag and St. Mary’s Trumpet Call on the Monte Cassino hill
On May 18, 1944, soldiers of the 2 Polish Corps hung the Polish flag on the ruins of the Monte Cassino monastery.
October 12, 1943 – A Bloody Baptism of Fire of the Berling’s Army
On 12 October 1943 a baptism of fire of the 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division – a Polish unit subservient to the Red Army took place
15.08.1943 – Deportations of Jews from the Białystok ghetto
In the second half of August 1943, the Poleski Railway Station in Bialystok was again bursting at the seams with thousands of people. But this time it was not the Soviets who were carrying away successive groups of deportees.
4.07.1943 – A plane crash in Gibraltar
On 4 July 1943, at 23:07, moments after take-off from Gibraltar Airport, Liberator II aircraft AL523 with General Władysław Sikorski on board, crashed into the Mediterranean Sea.
24.03.1942 – “They won their lives” – Evacuation of the Anders’ Army
On 24 March 1942, the first stage of the evacuation of the soldiers serving in the so-called Anders Army from the Soviet Union to Persia began. About 78,000 exiles, who joined the Polish army and 37 thousand civilians, including about 18,000 Polish children were evacuated in total.
11.11.1941 – Polish Independence Day on the Irtysh River
The date of 11 November 1918, being the day on which Poland regained its independence, is a symbolic date. Exactly on that day, an armistice ending the First World War was concluded in a wagon in the forest of Compiègne.