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Głowacki, New Zealander Brian Carbury and Ronald Hamlyn and Archie McKellar, both British pilots, [3] were the only four "aces in a day", [4] [a] in the Battle of Britain. Glowczynski, Czeslaw 6
Ship No. Comm. Displacement Notes Replenishment ships (2) Bałtyk class: 1 Poland: Fleet tanker ORP Bałtyk: Z-1 1991 3,021 tonnes [17] Homeport: Gdynia. B199 class 1 Poland: Fleet tanker Z-8: Z-8 1970 1,225 tonnes [18] Homeport: Świnoujście. Survey ship (2) Heweliusz-class. Project 874. 2 Poland: Survey ship ORP Heweliusz: 265 1982 1,214 ...
ORP Grom, a World War II Polish Navy destroyer. The outbreak of World War II caught the Polish Navy in a state of expansion. Lacking numerical superiority, Polish Naval commanders decided to withdraw main surface ships to Great Britain to join the Allied war effort and prevent them from being destroyed in a closed Baltic (the Peking Plan).
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.
The TK (also known as the TK-3) tankette was a Polish design produced from 1931 based on the chassis of the British Carden Loyd tankette, with an improved hull and more powerful engine, and armour up to 8 mm (0.31 in) thick (10 mm or 0.39 in on the TKS).
World War II: 1941 52 T-34: Dmitry Fyodorovich Lavrinenko was a Soviet tank commander and Hero of the Soviet Union. He was the highest scoring tank ace of the Allies during World War II. Lavrinenko destroyed 52 tanks in just 2.5 months of fierce fighting in 1941. Alfred Nickolls: United Kingdom: World War II: 1940 – 1943 30 M4 Sherman
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
World War II submarines of Poland (4 C, 10 P) Pages in category "World War II naval ships of Poland" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.