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Air Force of the Polish Army

Index Air Force of the Polish Army

The Air Force of the Polish Army (Lotnictwo Wojska Polskiego), unofficially known as the People's Polish Air Force was the name of the Soviet-controlled Polish Air Force in the USSR between 1943 and 1947 created alongside the Polish People's Army (Ludowe Wojsko Polskie), a subordinate to the Red Army. [1]

135 relations: Adamówek, Żyrardów County, Alte Oder, Army Detachment Steiner, Łazienki Park, Łódź, Łomianki, Łowicz, Żabin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Żabinek, Bad Freienwalde, Baltic Sea, Baranówko, Barge, Barwice, Battle of Berlin, Battle of the Oder–Neisse, Błonie, Bell P-39 Airacobra, Białogard, Bridgehead, Buguruslan, Bydgoszcz, Chrząszczewska Island, Cursed soldiers, Czaplinek, Czerniaków, Dęblin, Divisional general, Dys, Dziekanów, Dziekanów Polski, Dziwnów, Eighth Air Force, Elbe, First Polish Army (1944–1945), Flare, Gasoline, Górnica, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Generał brygady, Geographic coordinate system, Georgy Zhukov, Havelberg, Hennigsdorf, Hostomel, Ilyushin Il-2, Internal Security Corps, Kaliszki, Łódź Voivodeship, Kazan, Kharkiv, Kiev, ..., Killed in action, Kinel, Kołobrzeg, Kremmen, Kremmener Luch, Kutno, Löwenberger Land, Lisunov Li-2, LOT Polish Airlines, Lublin, Lublin–Brest Offensive, Luftwaffe, Magnuszew, Major, Mirosławiec, Modlin (Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki), Mokotów Field, Moscow, Myślibórz, National Bank of Poland, Nauen, Non-commissioned officer, North American P-51 Mustang, Oder, Oder–Havel Canal, Officer (armed forces), Oranienburg, Orla, Krotoszyn County, Palmiry, Petlyakov Pe-2, Piła, Polikarpov Po-2, Polish 9th Fighter Regiment, Polish Air Force, Polish Air Forces in France and Great Britain, Polish Armed Forces in the East, Polish People's Army, Polish people's referendum, 1946, Pomeranian Wall, Poznań, Praga, Red Army, Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, Sadów, Second Army (Poland), Siekierki, Sieraków, Warsaw West County, Sochaczew, Sorochinsk, Soviet Air Forces, Soviet Union, Stanisław Skalski, Szczecinek, Tarnówka, Złotów County, Ujazdów Park, Ukrainian Insurgent Army, United States, V-2 rocket, Vistula, Vistula–Oder Offensive, Volsk, Wałcz, Warka, Warsaw, Warsaw Chopin Airport, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw Uprising, Węgorzewo Koszalińskie, Western Pomerania, Wierzchowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Wola Rowska, Wolin, World War II, Wulkau, Yakovlev UT-2, Yakovlev Yak-1, Yakovlev Yak-3, Yakovlev Yak-7, Yakovlev Yak-9, Yegoryevsk, Zamość, Złocieniec, Zehdenick, 19th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht), 1st Belorussian Front. Expand index (85 more) »

Adamówek, Żyrardów County

Adamówek is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Mszczonów, within Żyrardów County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

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Alte Oder

The name Alte Oder may refer to several old branches of the Oder River.

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Army Detachment Steiner

Army Detachment Steiner (Armeeabteilung Steiner) was a temporary military unit, something more than a corps but less than an army, created on paper by German dictator Adolf Hitler on 21 April 1945 during the Battle of Berlin, and placed under the command of SS-Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner.

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Łazienki Park

Łazienki Park (Park Łazienkowski or Łazienki Królewskie: "Baths Park" or "Royal Baths"; also rendered "Royal Baths Park") is the largest park in Warsaw, Poland, occupying 76 hectares of the city center.

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Łódź

Łódź (לאדזש, Lodzh; also written as Lodz) is the third-largest city in Poland and an industrial hub.

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Łomianki

Łomianki is a town in Warsaw West County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.

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Łowicz

Łowicz is a town in central Poland with 28,811 inhabitants (2016).

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Żabin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

Żabin (formerly German Groß Sabin) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wierzchowo, within Drawsko County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.

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Żabinek

Żabinek (Klein Sabin) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wierzchowo, within Drawsko County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.

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Bad Freienwalde

Bad Freienwalde is a spa town in the Märkisch-Oderland district in Brandenburg, Germany.

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Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Scandinavia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Germany and the North and Central European Plain.

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Baranówko

Baranówko (Rohrheim) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Mosina, within Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.

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Barge

A barge is a flat-bottomed ship, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods.

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Barwice

Barwice (Bärwalde) is a town in Poland, in West Pomeranian Voivodship, in Szczecinek County.

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Battle of Berlin

The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was the final major offensive of the European theatre of World War II.

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Battle of the Oder–Neisse

The Battle of the Oder–Neisse is the German name for the initial (operational) phase of one of the last two strategic offensives conducted by the Red Army in the Campaign in Central Europe (1 January – 9 May 1945) during World War II.

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Błonie

Błonie is a town in Warsaw West County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 12,191 inhabitants (2004).

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Bell P-39 Airacobra

The Bell P-39 Airacobra was one of the principal American fighter aircraft in service when the United States entered World War II.

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Białogard

Białogard (Belgard; Kashubian/Pomeranian: Biôłogard) is a town in Middle Pomerania, northwestern Poland with 24,399 inhabitants (2004).

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Bridgehead

A bridgehead (or bridge-head) is the strategically important area of ground around the end of a bridge or other place of possible crossing over a body of water which at time of conflict is sought to be defended/taken over by the belligerent forces.

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Buguruslan

Buguruslan (Бугурусла́н) is a town in Orenburg Oblast, Russia.

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Bydgoszcz

Bydgoszcz (Bromberg; Bydgostia) is a city in northern Poland, on the Brda and Vistula rivers.

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Chrząszczewska Island

Chrząszczewska Island is an island in West Pomeranian Voivodeship in north-western Poland with an area of, located in Kamieński Lagoon, in Kamień County, linked with the mainland by bridge around the town of Kamień Pomorski.

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Cursed soldiers

The "cursed soldiers" (also known as "doomed soldiers", "accursed soldiers" or "damned soldiers"; Żołnierze wyklęci) or "indomitable soldiers" is a term applied to a variety of Polish anti-Soviet or anti-communist Polish resistance movements formed in the later stages of World War II and its aftermath by some members of the Polish Underground State.

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Czaplinek

Czaplinek (Tempelburg) is a town in Drawsko County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, with 7,155 inhabitants (2016).

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Czerniaków

Czerniaków is a neighbourhood of the city of Warsaw, located within the borough of Mokotów, between the escarpment of the Vistula river and the river itself.

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Dęblin

Dęblin is a town, population 16,656 (as of 2016), at the confluence of Vistula and Wieprz rivers, in Lublin Voivodeship, Poland.

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Divisional general

Divisional general is a rank of general in command of a division.

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Dys

Dys is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Niemce, within Lublin County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.

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Dziekanów

Dziekanów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Hrubieszów, within Hrubieszów County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine.

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Dziekanów Polski

Dziekanów Polski is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łomianki, within Warsaw West County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

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Dziwnów

Dziwnów (Berg Dievenow) is a town in north-western Poland situated on the Baltic Sea at the mouth of the river Dziwna.

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Eighth Air Force

The Eighth Air Force (Air Forces Strategic) (8 AF) is a numbered air force (NAF) of the United States Air Force's Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC).

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Elbe

The Elbe (Elbe; Low German: Elv) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe.

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First Polish Army (1944–1945)

The Polish First Army (Pierwsza Armia Wojska Polskiego, 1 AWP for short, also known as Berling's Army) was a Polish Army unit formed in the Soviet Union in 1944, from the previously existing Polish I Corps as part of the People's Army of Poland (LWP), a formation of the Polish Armed Forces in the East.

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Flare

A flare, also sometimes called a fusee, is a type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light or intense heat without an explosion.

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Gasoline

Gasoline (American English), or petrol (British English), is a transparent, petroleum-derived liquid that is used primarily as a fuel in spark-ignited internal combustion engines.

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Górnica, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

Górnica (Hohenstein) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wałcz, within Wałcz County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.

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Generał brygady

Generał brygady (literally General of a brigade, abbreviated gen. bryg.) is the lowest grade for generals in the Polish Army (both in the Land Forces and in the Polish Air Force).

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Geographic coordinate system

A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols.

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Georgy Zhukov

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (– 18 June 1974) was a Soviet Red Army General who became Chief of General Staff, Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Minister of Defence and a member of the Politburo.

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Havelberg

Havelberg is a town in the district of Stendal, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Hennigsdorf

Hennigsdorf is a town in the district of Oberhavel, in Brandenburg, Germany.

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Hostomel

Hostomel, also known as Gostomel (Hostomel; Gostomel), is a town in Ukraine's Kiev Oblast, north-western suburb to the capital city of Kiev.

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Ilyushin Il-2

The Ilyushin Il-2 (Cyrillic: Илью́шин Ил-2) Shturmovik (Cyrillic: Штурмови́к, Shturmovík) was a ground-attack aircraft produced by the Soviet Union in large numbers during the Second World War.

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Internal Security Corps

The Internal Security Corps (Korpus Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego, KBW) was a special-purpose military formation in Poland under Stalinist government, established by the communist Council of Ministers on May 24, 1945.

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Kaliszki, Łódź Voivodeship

Kaliszki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rawa Mazowiecka, within Rawa County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland.

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Kazan

Kazan (p; Казан) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.

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Kharkiv

Kharkiv (Ха́рків), also known as Kharkov (Ха́рьков) from Russian, is the second-largest city in Ukraine.

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Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv (Kyiv; Kiyev; Kyjev) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper.

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Killed in action

Killed in action (KIA) is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own combatants at the hands of hostile forces.

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Kinel

Kinel (Кинель) is a town in Samara Oblast, Russia, located on the Bolshoy Kinel River near its confluence with the Samara River, east of Samara.

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Kołobrzeg

Kołobrzeg (Kolberg) is a city in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in north-western Poland with about 47,000 inhabitants.

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Kremmen

Kremmen is a town in the district of Oberhavel, in Brandenburg, Germany.

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Kremmener Luch

The Kremmener Luch is a shallow fen, known locally as a luch, between the Glien plateau (near Berlin) in the south, and the Beetzer Heath in the north.

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Kutno

Kutno is a town located in central Poland with 44,718 inhabitants (2016) and an area of.

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Löwenberger Land

Löwenberger Land is a municipality in the Oberhavel district, in the German state of Brandenburg, about 50 km north of Berlin.

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Lisunov Li-2

The Lisunov Li-2, originally designated PS-84, was a license-built version of the Douglas DC-3.

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LOT Polish Airlines

Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT S.A. (flight), doing business as LOT Polish Airlines, is the flag carrier of Poland.

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Lublin

Lublin (Lublinum) is the ninth largest city in Poland and the second largest city of Lesser Poland.

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Lublin–Brest Offensive

The Lublin–Brest Offensive (Люблин‐Брестская наступательная операция, 18 July – 2 August 1944) was a part of the Operation Bagration strategic offensive by the Soviet Red Army to clear the Nazi German forces from the central‐eastern Poland.

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Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II.

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Magnuszew

Magnuszew is a village in Kozienice County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

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Major

Major is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world.

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Mirosławiec

Mirosławiec (Märkisch Friedland; Frédlądk) is a town in Wałcz County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, with 4,837 inhabitants (2007).

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Modlin (Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki)

Modlin was a village near Warsaw in Poland near the banks of rivers Narew and Vistula.

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Mokotów Field

Pole Mokotowskie (Polish for "Mokotów Field" is a large park in Warsaw. Part of it is called "Józef Piłsudski Park." Located between Warsaw's Mokotów district and the city center, the park is one of the largest in Warsaw. Until World War II, a major part was occupied by an airfield and the Warsaw Polytechnic aircraft works. Pole Mokotowskie was also, until 1934, the site of Warsaw Airport and, until 1939, of the Warsaw Horse Racing Track. Located within the park is the Polish National Library. The park is also famous for its bars. Just to the south is a Warsaw Metro station, the Pole Mokotowskie station.

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Moscow

Moscow (a) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area.

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Myślibórz

Myślibórz (Soldin; Żôłdzëno) is a city in north-west Poland, in West Pomeranian Voivodeship.

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National Bank of Poland

Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland, NBP) is the central bank of Poland.

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Nauen

Nauen is a small town in the Havelland district, in Brandenburg, Germany.

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Non-commissioned officer

A non-commissioned officer (NCO) is a military officer who has not earned a commission.

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North American P-51 Mustang

The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts.

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Oder

The Oder (Czech, Lower Sorbian and Odra, Oder, Upper Sorbian: Wódra) is a river in Central Europe.

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Oder–Havel Canal

The Oder–Havel Canal is a German canal built between 1908 and 1914, originally known as the Hohenzollern Canal, mostly replacing the Finow Canal.

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Officer (armed forces)

An officer is a member of an armed force or uniformed service who holds a position of authority.

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Oranienburg

Oranienburg is a town in Brandenburg, Germany.

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Orla, Krotoszyn County

Orla (Orla) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Koźmin Wielkopolski, within Krotoszyn County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.

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Palmiry

Palmiry is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czosnów, within Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

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Petlyakov Pe-2

The Petlyakov Pe-2 (Петляков Пе-2) was a Soviet light bomber used during World War II.

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Piła

Piła (Schneidemühl) is a town in northwestern Poland.

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Polikarpov Po-2

The Polikarpov Po-2 (also U-2, for its initial ''uchebnyy'' role as a flight instruction aircraft) served as a general-purpose Soviet biplane, nicknamed Kukuruznik (Кукурузник,Gunston 1995, p. 292. from Russian "kukuruza" (кукуруза) for maize; thus, "maize duster" or "crop duster"), NATO reporting name "Mule".

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Polish 9th Fighter Regiment

The Polish 9th Fighter Regiment (Polish: 9 Pułk Lotnictwa Myśliwskiego) was a fighter regiment established in 1944 in Malbork that was a part of the Air Force of the Polish Army.

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Polish Air Force

The Polish Air Force (Siły Powietrzne, literally "Air Forces") is the aerial warfare military branch of the Polish Armed Forces.

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Polish Air Forces in France and Great Britain

The Polish Air Forces (Polskie Siły Powietrzne) was the name of the Polish Air Forces formed in France and the United Kingdom during World War II.

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Polish Armed Forces in the East

Polish Armed Forces in the East (Polskie Siły Zbrojne na Wschodzie) (or Polish Army in USSR) refers to military units composed of Poles created in the Soviet Union at the time when the territory of Poland was occupied by both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the Second World War.

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Polish People's Army

The Polish People's Army (Ludowe Wojsko Polskie, LWP) constituted the second formation of the Polish Armed Forces in the East (1943–1945) and later the armed forces (1945–1989) of the Polish communist government of Poland (from 1952, the Polish People's Republic) along with the ruling Polish United Workers' Party.

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Polish people's referendum, 1946

The People's Referendum (referendum ludowe) of 1946, also known as the Three Times Yes referendum (Trzy razy tak, often abbreviated as 3×TAK), was a referendum held in Poland on 30 June 1946 on the authority of the State National Council (order of 27 April 1946).

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Pomeranian Wall

The Pomeranian Wall, Pomeranian Line or Pomeranian Position (Die Pommernstellung, Wał Pomorski) was a line of fortifications constructed by Nazi Germany in the Pomeranian Lakeland region.

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Poznań

Poznań (Posen; known also by other historical names) is a city on the Warta River in west-central Poland, in the Greater Poland region.

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Praga

Praga is a district of Warsaw, Poland.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Рабоче-крестьянская Красная армия (РККА), Raboche-krest'yanskaya Krasnaya armiya (RKKA), frequently shortened in Russian to Красная aрмия (КА), Krasnaya armiya (KA), in English: Red Army, also in critical literature and folklore of that epoch – Red Horde, Army of Work) was the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was a World War II era fighter aircraft produced by the United States from 1941 through 1945.

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Sadów

Sadów (Silesian: Sodowje) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Koszęcin, within Lubliniec County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

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Second Army (Poland)

The Polish Second Army (Druga Armia Wojska Polskiego, 2. AWP for short) was a Polish Army unit formed in the Soviet Union in 1944 as part of the People's Army of Poland.

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Siekierki

Siekierki is a neighborhood in the Mokotów district of Warsaw, Poland.

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Sieraków, Warsaw West County

Sieraków is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Izabelin, within Warsaw West County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

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Sochaczew

Sochaczew is a city in central Poland, with 38,300 inhabitants (2004).

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Sorochinsk

Sorochinsk (Соро́чинск) is a town in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, located on the Samara River (Volga's tributary), northwest of Orenburg, the administrative center of the oblast.

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Soviet Air Forces

The Soviet Air Forces (r (VVS), literally "Military Air Forces") was the official designation of one of the air forces of the Soviet Union.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Stanisław Skalski

Stanisław Skalski (27 November 1915 – 12 November 2004) was a Polish fighter ace of the Polish Air Force in World War II, later rising to the rank of Brigadier General.

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Szczecinek

Szczecinek (Neustettin; Nowé Sztetëno) is a historical city in Middle Pomerania, northwestern Poland, with a population of more than 40,000 (2011).

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Tarnówka, Złotów County

Tarnówka (Tarnowke) is a village in Złotów County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.

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Ujazdów Park

Ujazdów Park (Park Ujazdowski) is one of the most picturesque parks of Warsaw, Poland.

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Ukrainian Insurgent Army

The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Українська повстанська армія, УПА, Ukrayins’ka Povstans’ka Armiya, UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and later partisan army that engaged in a series of guerrilla conflicts during World War II against Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and both Underground and Communist Poland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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V-2 rocket

The V-2 (Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Retribution Weapon 2"), technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile.

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Vistula

The Vistula (Wisła, Weichsel,, ווייסל), Висла) is the longest and largest river in Poland, at in length. The drainage basin area of the Vistula is, of which lies within Poland (54% of its land area). The remainder is in Belarus, Ukraine and Slovakia. The Vistula rises at Barania Góra in the south of Poland, above sea level in the Silesian Beskids (western part of Carpathian Mountains), where it begins with the White Little Vistula (Biała Wisełka) and the Black Little Vistula (Czarna Wisełka). It then continues to flow over the vast Polish plains, passing several large Polish cities along its way, including Kraków, Sandomierz, Warsaw, Płock, Włocławek, Toruń, Bydgoszcz, Świecie, Grudziądz, Tczew and Gdańsk. It empties into the Vistula Lagoon (Zalew Wiślany) or directly into the Gdańsk Bay of the Baltic Sea with a delta and several branches (Leniwka, Przekop, Śmiała Wisła, Martwa Wisła, Nogat and Szkarpawa).

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Vistula–Oder Offensive

The Vistula–Oder Offensive was a successful Red Army operation on the Eastern Front in the European Theatre of World War II in January 1945.

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Volsk

Volsk (Вольск) is a town in Saratov Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, opposite the mouth of the Bolshoy Irgiz (a tributary of the Volga), northeast from Saratov, the administrative center of the oblast.

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Wałcz

Wałcz (German: Deutsch Krone) is a county town in Wałcz County of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland.

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Warka

Warka is a town in central Poland, located on the left bank of the Pilica river (south of Warsaw), with 11,035 inhabitants (2004).

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Warsaw

Warsaw (Warszawa; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland.

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Warsaw Chopin Airport

Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport (Lotnisko Chopina w Warszawie), more commonly referred to as Chopin Airport or Warsaw-Chopin Airport, is an international airport located in the Włochy district of Warsaw, Poland.

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Warsaw University of Technology

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Warsaw Uprising

The Warsaw Uprising (powstanie warszawskie; Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation, in the summer of 1944, by the Polish underground resistance, led by the Home Army (Armia Krajowa), to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.

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Węgorzewo Koszalińskie

Węgorzewo Koszalińskie (formerly German Vangerow) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sianów, within Koszalin County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.

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Western Pomerania

Western Pomerania, also called Cispomerania or Hither Pomerania (Vorpommern), is the western extremity of the historic region of the duchy, later Province of Pomerania, nowadays divided between the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Poland.

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Wierzchowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship

Wierzchowo (Wierzchòwò; Firchau) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Człuchów, within Człuchów County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.

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Wola Rowska

Wola Rowska is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łaskarzew, within Garwolin County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

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Wolin

Wolin (Wollin,, Pomeranian Wòlin) is the name both of a Polish island in the Baltic Sea, just off the Polish coast, and a town on that island.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Wulkau

Wulkau is a village and a former municipality in the district of Stendal, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Yakovlev UT-2

The Yakovlev UT-2 (Яковлев УТ-2; NATO reporting name "Mink") was a single-engine tandem two-seat low-wing monoplane that was the standard Soviet trainer during the Great Patriotic War.

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Yakovlev Yak-1

The Yakovlev Yak-1 (Яковлев Як-1) was a World War II Soviet fighter aircraft.

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Yakovlev Yak-3

The Yakovlev Yak-3 (Russian: Я́ковлев Як-3) was a World War II Soviet fighter aircraft.

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Yakovlev Yak-7

The Yakovlev Yak-7 (Яковлев Як-7) was developed from the earlier Yak-1 fighter, initially as a trainer but converted into a fighter.

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Yakovlev Yak-9

The Yakovlev Yak-9 was a single-engine fighter aircraft used by the Soviet Union in World War II and after.

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Yegoryevsk

Yegoryevsk (Его́рьевск) is a town and the administrative center of Yegoryevsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Guslitsa River southeast of Moscow.

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Zamość

Zamość (Yiddish: זאמאשטש Zamoshtsh) is a city in southeastern Poland, situated in the southern part of Lublin Voivodeship (since 1999), about from Lublin, from Warsaw and from the border with Ukraine.

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Złocieniec

Złocieniec (Falkenburg) is a town in north-western Poland region of Middle Pomerania.

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Zehdenick

Zehdenick is a town in the Oberhavel district, in Brandenburg, Germany.

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19th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)

The 19th Panzer Division (19th Tank Division) was an armoured division in the German Army, the Wehrmacht, during World War II.

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1st Belorussian Front

The 1st Belorussian Front (Першы Беларускі фронт, alternative spellings are 1st Byelorussian Front and 1st Belarusian Front) was a major formation of the Soviet Army during World War II, being equivalent to a Western army group.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_of_the_Polish_Army

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