SIK 042 - 1st Armoured Division in Holland - Breda 1944

[@TheBritishLegions]

brave wonderful Poles!

[@melgrant7404]

Agree xxxx

[@kasiairys]

,, Za Wolność Naszą i Waszą ,,🇵🇱 gen. Stanisław Maczek

[@wojbla01]

1st Armoured Division was a truly elite unit of the Polish Armed Forces in WW2. Unit that after quite successful resist to the invading Germans and Russians in 1939 (the only fully armoured and motorized unit of the Polish Army) was able to evacuate to Hungary and from there to France. Fought again in 1940 in France, evacuated to UK where deployed to defend Scottish coast in Firth of Forth, Edinburgh area , after D-Day distinguished itself at Falaise in Normandy, Ypres, liberated Antwerp and Breda and took main base of the German Kriegsmarine, Wilhelmshafen. After the war soldiers unable to return to the Russian occupied Poland did resettle mostly UK and Commonwealth countries and the US. Its Commander gen Maczek was previously Polish-Austrian officer in WW1, the only non Tyrolean who served during the Great War as an officer of the elite Kaiserjeager Tyrolean Regiment. He always did appreciate the movement and deep strikes against the enemy. Like most of the best generals of the Polish Armed Forces of WW2 he did graduate from the elite Austrian - Hungarian Army War Academy.

[@zepter00]

Yeah. Poles on tanks liberated part of France, very big part of Belgium and Netherlands.

[@kasiairys]

look INVINCIBLE. THE STORY OF GENERAL STANISŁAW MACZEK'S LIFE

[@kasiairys]

Cześć i Chwała Bohaterom 🇵🇱

[@micc2960]

At 0:31 i'm sure the man with the lady on the right has to be my grandparents. They both look very similar... I'll have to confirm it with my older family members but i'm almost certain of it. Amazing if it is

[@piotrlistewnik6034]

Mój ojciec Maksymilian wyzwalał Brede,za co otrzymał krzyż walecznych

[@Docentino1914]

Krzyż Walecznych to polskie odznaczenie! Dostał coś Pan Maks od Holendrów?

[@kasiairys]

look INVINCIBLE. THE STORY OF GENERAL STANISŁAW MACZEK'S LIFE

[@richardbinkhuysen8109]

1:30 - 3:19 6 Jan 1945 orders were issued that 1.Polish Armoured Division would take over the sector Moerdijk-Tholen Island from 22.CAR. Canadian Grenadier Guards on 10.Jan.1945 This included also the command of 62A-T.Rgt,RA and III./Netherlands Interior Forces (9-14.Coy). Footage is a German KO tank at Moerdijk with the demolished bridges on the background. And Polish HQ's troop scouting the facinaty. Footage most likely between 6th and 10th of Januari 1945 or first 2 weeks of November 1944 3:19 - 3:58 Zuylen Cemetry Breda november 1944 3:58 - 4:10 Battle footage of beginning november 1944 advance to Moerdijk. 4:10 Breda HQ's 4:32 Guard : Dutch Resistance fighter (Orde Dienst-Breda)with red,white and blue cuff band and german helmet. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXbJdKZrZdiJp7c Training and deploy of a Section III./Netherlands Interior Forces ,Commando Brabant between Leeuwen and Wamel. Burriel of a Trooper ( possibly P.Avontuur of10.Coy. 31.Oct.1945 ) III./Netherlands Interior Forces,Commando Brabant at Zuylen Cemetry Breda.

[@RealYoungPhil]

My Grand dad died in Breda in November. Paweł Kreja Nagórski Crazy to see this.

[@richardbinkhuysen8109]

Most likely of wounds inflicted up north near the frontline. Do you have more information?

[@RealYoungPhil]

Unfortunately only that he was in the 8th Rifle Battalion. We have no more Info. Very Sad.

[@richardbinkhuysen8109]

@@RealYoungPhil What was his name?

[@RealYoungPhil]

@@richardbinkhuysen8109 Paweł Kreja, his real Name Nagórski

[@richardbinkhuysen8109]

One of 9.Coy./Netherlands Interior Forces ( 9.Compagnie Nederlandse Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten ) who actually was an occupant of those trenches of Tholen Island to Moerdijk is still alive. Thoolse Bode (newspaper) www.internetbode.nl/regio/tholen/313931/thoolse-veteraan-gilles-de-kok-4-en-5-mei-zijn-dagen-waarbij-emotie-en-een (Courtesy of the Archevist of Tholen Island who sent it to me).