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The Army Medal for War (Polish: Medal Wojska za Wojne) was created in 1945 by the Polish government in Exile (in London) to reward members of the Polish ground forces for service during World War II. The eligibility criteria were: six months of operational service during World War II, or 12 months in a non-operational role. [ 1 ]
Life Saving Medal: 1928 Army Medal for War 1939-45 Medal Wojska za Wojnę 1939-45: 1945 Air Force Medal for War 1939-45 Medal Lotniczy za Wojnę 1939-45: 1945 Navy Medal for War 1939-45 Medal Morski za Wojnę 1939-45: 1945 Merchant Marine Medal for War 1939-45 Medal Morski PMH za Wojnę 1939-45: 1945 Krzyż Monte Cassino Cross of Monte Cassino ...
Medal "Za udział w wojnie obronnej 1939" (Medal for the War of 1939) Warszawski Krzyż Powstańczy (Warsaw Cross of the Uprising) Medal za Warszawę 1939–1945 (Medal for Warsaw 1939–1945) Medal za Odrę, Nysę, Bałtyk (Medal for Oder, Neisse and Baltic) Medal Zwycięstwa i Wolności 1945 (Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945)
The Medal for Warsaw 1939–1945 was established by a decree of the Council of Ministers of November 21, 1945: [2] "In order to commemorate the heroic history of Warsaw in the war with the Nazi invaders, the history of a soldier who defended the Capital in September 1939, fought relentlessly during the occupation and died sacrificially in the tragic uprising, as well as to commemorate the ...
Virtuti Militari; Cross of Valour; Cross of Merit with Swords; Distinguished Flying Medal, Air Force Medal 1939-45, 1939–1945 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939–1945 Jakub Bargiełowski (1921-2010) was a Polish fighter ace of the Polish Air Force in World War II with 5 confirmed kills.
Medal for Oder, Neisse and Baltic; Medal for Participation in the Battle of Berlin; Medal for Warsaw 1939–1945; Medal of Merit for National Defence; Medal of the Armed Forces in the Service of the Fatherland; Military Cross (Poland) Military Cross of Merit
Recipients of the Polish Army Medal (15 P) V. Recipients of the Virtuti Militari (6 C, 110 P) Pages in category "Recipients of Polish military awards and decorations"
Józef Jeka (1917–1958) was a Polish fighter pilot who served in the Polish Defensive War and became an ace in the Battle of Britain. In the Second World War he shot down at least eight enemy aircraft, and survived being shot down twice. In the Cold War Jeka worked for the CIA. He was killed in 1958 in an air crash on a covert mission in ...