1st. Armoured Division

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NIEUWE UPDATE 13/11/2014

Original 1st Armoured Operational Reports 

The biggest success that day
was achieved by the 1st Polish Armoured Division. What happened as the Poles went
over to the attack on the 27th was nothing less than spectacular:

Naprzód
As related above, the main task of General-Major Maczek’s division was to pin down
the 256. Volksgrenadier-Division and advance in the general direction of Oosterhout
so that LXVII. Armeekorps would not be able to shift units westward. The Polish
operation started at eight a.m. and was preceded by a very brief ten-minute artillery
barrage.1418 Then the cry went up, ‘Naprzód’, and operation ‘Breda’ began.1419 While
the infantry of the 3rd Polish Infantry Brigade began the laborious process of
sweeping the woods north and northwest of Baarle-Nassau the tanks of the 10th
Armoured Cavalry Brigade roared northwards. In just three hours the Recce
regiment, 10 Pułk Strzelców Konnych (PSK), advanced ten kilometres, pushing aside
the 476 Grenadier-Regiment in the process and taking Vijfhuizen.1420 The Cromwells
of 10 PSK raced ahead and at noon had advanced another five kilometres and
occupied the village of Gilze. The unit then split up, No.1 Squadron moving on to the
airfield which had been abandoned by the Luftwaffe in the panic of 5 September,
and No.3 Squadron heading for the main road Breda – Tilburg.1421 Still meeting only
little resistance the Cromwells rattled on and at two p.m. reached the road. Another
important German artery was now severed. Still the Poles would not let up. Major
Wasilewski ordered his regiment to continue as far as the Wilhelminakanaal, five
kilometres away. The men were in a hurry now as it would soon be dark. Bypassing
Rijen, which was obviously defended, the Cromwells were forced to take to the
fields. Unexpectedly they had to contend with a new enemy. The ground became
softer and softer and after a while six tanks had become completely stuck.
Fortunately for the Poles the German troops on the other side had no anti-tank guns
and only fired the occasional MG volley. The Cromwells could not be recovered until
the following evening. The capture of Reijen was left to the Sherman tanks of 10
Pułk Dragonów and 24th Ułanów who had followed close on the metaphorical heels
of 10 PSK.
All in all it had been a heady day for the Poles who covered nearly twenty kilometres.

(bron: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 1 oktober 2012)

Divisies bereiken Holland - klik hier

Vereniging 1e Poolse Pantserdivisie - lees hier over verhalen tijdens bevrijding van diverse steden in België en Nederland.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/12/a2272312.shtml  
A polish soldier in Scotland WOII

Research Polish Institute and Sirkorski Museum

http://www.pism.co.uk/family_research.htm

Strangers in Britain
Stef loopt de loopplank af bij 40 sec. van film  (klik op onderstaande afbeeding voor video).

http://www.makers.org.uk/place/PolishInScotland2WW

http://douglaswjacobson.com/?page_id=355 
Scotland > Wilhelmshaven 

http://www.polishgreatness.com/            over de Poolse helden WO II

http://www.polishforums.com/genealogy-6/anyone-have-relatives-served-st-polish-armoured-division-gen-7733/2/     FORUM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWUMx-IdwCE           YOUTUBE, Polish soldiers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPQb0eqqKEI

http://www.go2war2.nl/artikel/2894/Maczek-Stanislaw.htm?page=3            over generaal Maczek

http://www.maczekmuseum.nl/collectie/schenkingen-en-giften/         MACZEK Museum in Breda 

Poolse bevrijders van Emmen en Omgeving (klik hier)

Zoek-info: 10 Pulku strzelcow konnych front zachodni 1944-1945

o.a. beschreven de slag om FALAISE - France 

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Genealogie Polen Pultusk

1724.31/VII. (Śmiełowo) Jakub Ignacy s. Anton. Gunowskiego gub. dz. Sm. i Marjanny Gum. -- MD. Jan Rudawski z Gęszewa i MD. Teresa Zagórska Rogaszyc

http://www.geneteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?rid=B&from_date=&to_date=&search_lastname=rod&rpp2=50&rpp1=750&bdm=50&w=07mz&op=gt&exac=        Index Rudawski

http://genealodzy.pl/changelang-eng.phtml

Genealodzy:

http://www.stankiewicze.com/index.php?kat=28&sub=362 

http://metryki.genealodzy.pl/metryki.php?op=ch

http://metryki.genealodzy.pl/metryka.php?ar=6&zs=0005d&sy=1885&kt=1&skan=147-150.jpg#zoom=1&x=1216&y=717

http://www.1944.pl/historia/powstancze-biogramy/Jozef_Rudawski

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