The Poles on the front lines of the WW2

Artur.PL

a few things about Poles if somebody is interested in.
http://www.ww2.pl/?

Avgas

Artur.PL wrote: »

a few things about Polies if somebody is interested in.
http://www.ww2.pl/?

Good stuff Arthur. A fairly good read I came across in English was a book called 'freely I served" by General Sosabowski who was one of the Polish airborne commanders for Market Garden. Very old now..... I came across it second hand in a bargain bin somewhere.

Just a query re Polish army 1939...the Pole used a Belgian variant of the famous Browning Automatic Rifle in 7.92mm as their squad machine gun...how did it fare....did you come across any references to it...say in Polish?

Regards, Avgas.

Artur.PL

I hope this will be helpful.

source http://www.1939.pl/
there is english language option (maybe not really good but will be enough I hope ?)
something about Gen. Sosabowski and his Brigade(Wiki):

Upon his arrival in London, Sosabowski turned up at the Polish General Staff and was assigned to 4th Rifles Brigade that was to become a core of the future 4th Infantry Division. The unit was to be composed mainly from Polish Canadians, but it soon became apparent that there were not enough young Poles in Canada to create a division out of them.
Then Sosabowski decided to transform his brigade into a Parachute Brigade, the first such unit in the Polish Army. The volunteers came from all the formations of the Polish Army. In Largo House a training camp was built and the parachute training was started. Sosabowski himself passed the training and, at 49 years of age, made his first parachute jumps. According to relations of Sosabowski's former subordinates, the colonel was a strict yet just commander. Impulsive and harsh, Sosabowski could not stand any opposition. This made the creation of a Polish parachute brigade possible, but also made contacts with his superiors problematic.
In October 1942 the brigade was ready for combat and was named the 1st Independent Parachute Brigade. Since the Polish General Staff planned to use the brigade to aid the all-national uprising in Poland, the soldiers of the 1st Polish Para were to be the first element of the Polish Army in Exile to reach their homeland. Hence the unofficial motto of the unit: the shortest way (najkrótszą drogą).
In September 1943 Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning proposed that Sosabowski reform his unit into a division and fill the remaining posts with Englishmen. Sosabowski himself would be assigned to the newly-formed division and promoted to general. However, Sosabowski refused. However, on 15 June 1944 he was nevertheless promoted to Brigadier General.
Warsaw Uprising

In early August 1944, news of the Warsaw Uprising arrived in Great Britain. The brigade was ready to be paradropped into Warsaw to aid their colleagues from the Home Army, who were fighting a desperate battle against overwhelming odds. However, the distance was too great for the transport aircraft to make a round trip and access to Soviet airfields was denied. The morale of the Polish troops suffered badly, and many of the units verged on mutiny. The British staff threatened its Polish counterpart with disarmament of the brigade, but Sosabowski retained control of his unit. Finally, Polish Commander in Chief Kazimierz Sosnkowski put the brigade under British command, and the plans to send it to Warsaw were abandoned. It was not until after the war that general Sosabowski learnt that his son, Stanisław "Stasinek" Sosabowski, a medic and member of the Kedyw, had lost his sight during the uprising.

Stanisław "Stasinek" Sosabowski was a platoon commander.