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Military history of Poland during World War II. In World War II, the Polish armed forces were the fourth largest Allied forces in Europe, after those of the Soviet Union, United States, and Britain. [a] [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Poles made substantial contributions to the Allied effort throughout the war, fighting on land, sea, and in the air.
Polish Armament in 1939–45 article is a list of equipment used by Polish army before and during the Invasion of Poland, foreign service in British Commonwealth forces and last campaign to Germany with the Red Army in 1945. [1] The list includes prototype vehicles.
Polish intelligence gave the British crucial information on Germany's secret-weapons projects, including the V-1 and V-2 rockets, enabling Britain to set back these German programs by bombing the main development facility at Peenemünde in 1943. Poland's networks supplied the western Allies with intelligence on nearly all aspects of the German ...
The Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa, pronounced [ˈarmja kraˈjɔva]; abbreviated AK) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II.The Home Army was formed in February 1942 from the earlier Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Armed Resistance) established in the aftermath of the German and Soviet invasions in September 1939.
Polish insurgent weapons, including the Błyskawica sub-machine gun, at the Warsaw Uprising Museum. The Błyskawica (Polish: 'lightning') was a submachine gun [1] produced by the Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, a Polish resistance movement fighting the Germans in occupied Poland. [1] Together with a Polish version of the Sten sub-machine gun, with ...
Military instruction published in Warsaw in 1938. The karabin przeciwpancerny wz. 35 (abbreviated kb ppanc wz. 35) is a Polish 7.92 mm anti-tank rifle that was used by the Polish Armed Forces during the 1939 Polish Campaign of World War II and later by several Axis armies. It was designated wzór 35 for its design year, 1935.
Caliber. 7.9mm. Action. Gas-Operated, Tilt locked. Muzzle velocity. 808 m/s (2,650 ft/s) Feed system. 10-round internal box magazine. The Karabin samopowtarzalny wzór 38M (Kbsp wz.38M self-repeating rifle Model 38M), was a prototype Polish 7.92mm semi-automatic rifle used by the Polish Army during the Invasion of Poland of 1939.
v. t. e. Home Army intelligence report with V1 and V2 schematic drawings. Memorial at the Motyl landing site. Operation Most III (Polish for Bridge III) or Operation Wildhorn III (in British documents) was a World War II operation in which Poland 's Armia Krajowa provided the Allies with crucial intelligence on the German V-2 rocket.