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After World War II, the U.S. War Department transferred the operations and development of chemical mortars to the Ordnance Department, in this way making the mortar an official infantry weapon. The 2nd Chemical Mortar Battalion was the last of the chemical mortar battalions, and the only one to see combat after World War II.
14th Greater Poland Infantry Division (stationed in Poznań) - Gen. Franciszek Wład 15th Greater Poland Infantry Division (stationed in Bydgoszcz ) - Gen. Wacław Przyjałkowski 16th Pomeranian Infantry Division (stationed in Grudziądz ) - Col. Stanisław Świtalski , after September 2, 1939 Col. Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko
Maintenance Battalion; Medical Battalion; Chemical Defence Company; 1st Warsaw Cannon Artillery Brigade, in Węgorzewo; 8th Howitzer Artillery Brigade, in Węgorzewo; 2nd Warszawska Engineer Brigade, in Kazuń Nowy; 32nd Łużycka Artillery Brigade, in Orzysz (Tactical Ballistic Missiles) 3rd Chemical Defence Regiment, in Biskupiec; 5th Podhale ...
The 3rd Chemical Brigade was first constituted on 1 January 1942 as the 3rd Chemical Battalion. [2] It was activated at Fort Benning, Georgia. The unit was reorganized and redesignated as the 3rd Chemical Mortar Battalion on 11 March 1945. It was inactivated on 2 January 1946 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia.
The European Theatre of World War II opened with the German invasion of Poland on Friday September 1, 1939, followed by the Soviet invasion of Poland on September 17, 1939. On 6 October, following the Polish defeat at the Battle of Kock , German and Soviet forces gained full control over Poland.
The Polish Armed Forces in the East (Polish: Polskie Siły Zbrojne na Wschodzie), also called Polish Army in the USSR, were the Polish military forces established in the Soviet Union during World War II. Two armies were formed separately and at different times. Anders' Army, created in the second half of 1941, was loyal to the Polish government ...
The German camps in occupied Poland during World War II were built by the Nazis between 1939 and 1945 throughout the territory of the Polish Republic, both in the areas annexed in 1939, and in the General Government formed by Nazi Germany in the central part of the country (see map).
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.