Maczek on D-Day
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The First Armored was formed and trained in Scotland by Polish General Stanislaw Maczek, a seasoned expert in the art of armored warfare, whose exploits dated back to the Russo-Polish War in 1920.
His men were a rare assembly of volunteers from all parts of the world. Most of them escaped from occupied Poland, other [sic] came from France and other European countries. A good number of "Sikorski's Tourists" or the "Schwartze Brigade" as Hitler called them, hailed from as far as the North and South American continents.
Though Maczek's men represented a vast diversity of backgrounds, they all had one common goal in mind: they were there to join the Polish armed forces so that they may fight their dreaded enemy and take revenge on Hitler.
Polish General Stanislaw Maczek (left) visits with General Dwight D. Eisenhower in May 1944. As part of Poland's military command organizing on Allied soil, Gen. Maczek formed and trained Poland's First Armored Division in Scotland.
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The First Armored was formed and trained in Scotland by Polish General Stanislaw Maczek, a seasoned expert in the art of armored warfare, whose exploits dated back to the Russo-Polish War in 1920.
His men were a rare assembly of volunteers from all parts of the world. Most of them escaped from occupied Poland, other [sic] came from France and other European countries. A good number of "Sikorski's Tourists" or the "Schwartze Brigade" as Hitler called them, hailed from as far as the North and South American continents.
Though Maczek's men represented a vast diversity of backgrounds, they all had one common goal in mind: they were there to join the Polish armed forces so that they may fight their dreaded enemy and take revenge on Hitler.
Polish General Stanislaw Maczek (left) visits with General Dwight D. Eisenhower in May 1944. As part of Poland's military command organizing on Allied soil, Gen. Maczek formed and trained Poland's First Armored Division in Scotland.
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