Let's remember on this date the brave citizens of Poland were attacked at the Port Of Gdansk and the Westerplate Peninsula. This marked the start of WW 2 in Europe.
The brave soldiers of Poland fought a ledgendery battle at Cassino while fighting without a country. The people of Warsaw proved to the world the weaker can defeat the stronger. May they rest in peace.
The sinister Hitler AND Stalin had their empires crumble, yet Poland stands strong today.
My late father fought for the Poles in the cavalry. They were actually mobile infantry. The roads in Poland in 1939 were nothing like what we have today in the US. Most were unpaved. It made sense to have a large cavalry. Poland was the only nation which fought Germany alone and fought the Red Army also. The Poles never surrendered and had the largest , most active underground movement in Europe during the war. When the Nazis surrendered to the Soviets ,British, and Americans in Berlin, there were a large number of Polish troops attach both to the Red Army and the Western Allies.
My landlord in Germany was Polish. He was captured in '39 and was used as slave labor until April '45 when he was liberated by the 3rd Army. He hated the Germans, but refused to return to Poland. He hated the Russians more.
Attend church with a great man, an 82nd AB, Glider Reg. He stayed in Germany for the occupation duty after the war. He HATES the Russians. Arrested a Russian twice for rape in the US sectors. The third time he tried to enter the US sector, he and 5 other soldiers walked him back to the Russians with a gun to his head. Informed his counterparts next time he'll be in a box. They just laughed at him.
