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The first Polish Military Intelligence after World War II was the Second Section of General Staff of the Polish People's Army (Oddział II Sztabu Generalnego Ludowego Wojska Polskiego, or Odział II Szt Gen LWP) and bore the same name as its precursor from before the war. Odział II Szt Gen WP was established on July 18, 1945, but its origins ...
The Polish Armed Forces in the West fought under British command and numbered 195,000 in March 1944 and 165,000 at the end of that year, including about 20,000 personnel in the Polish Air Force and 3,000 in the Polish Navy. At the end of World War II, the Polish Armed Forces in the west numbered 195,000 and by July 1945 had increased to 228,000 ...
The ship's keel was laid after Yamato ' s launch in August 1940 and construction continued until December 1941, when the Japanese began to question their ambitious capital ship building program—with the coming of war, the resources essential in constructing the ship would become much harder to obtain.
Victorious. (R38) HMS Victorious was the third Illustrious -class aircraft carrier after Illustrious and Formidable. Ordered under the 1936 Naval Programme, she was laid down at the Vickers-Armstrong shipyard at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1937 and launched two years later in 1939. Her commissioning was delayed until 1941 due to the greater need for ...
ORP. Piorun. (G65) ORP Piorun was an N-class destroyer operated by the Polish Navy in World War II. The word piorun is Polish for "Thunderbolt". Ordered by the Royal Navy in 1939, the ship was laid down as HMS Nerissa before being loaned to the Poles in October 1940 while still under construction.
Conservative estimates range from 6,400 to 8,000 killed and wounded. [ 148 ] [ 149 ] Kershaw listed the German order of battle, with between 6,315 and 8,925 casualties. [ 150 ] In A Bridge Too Far , Cornelius Ryan estimated 7,500 to 10,000 additional casualties to those provided by Rundstedt, for a final total of 10,800–13,300 losses. [ 151 ]
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 ...
Service for Poland's Victory (Polish: Służba Zwycięstwu Polski; SZP), also translated as the Polish Victory Service, was the first Polish resistance movement in World War II. It was created by the order of general Juliusz Rómmel on 27 September 1939, when the siege of Warsaw , capital of Poland, where Rómmel commanded Polish defence, was ...