>On September 7 Raginis' forces (approximately 720 men, out of which roughly 650 were killed) were attacked by more than 42,000 German soldiers.[6][7] To keep the morale of his men high, Raginis pledged that he would not leave his post alive.[1][2]
>The defense of Wizna against overwhelming odds lasted for three days.[6] On September 10, 1939, the bunker commanded by Raginis was the last remaining pocket of resistance.[2][6] Although heavily wounded, Raginis was still commanding his troops.[2] At noon on the third day, the German commander, Heinz Guderian, threatened that all Polish POWs would be shot if the defense of the bunker did not cease.[1][8][9] Turning to his men in the shelter, Raginis thanked them for the fact that they were soldiers and did their duty. He then ordered them to surrender and leave the shelter - he would keep his word and not surrender.[3] Seweryn Biegański, who was the last to leave the shelter, describes the moment;[3]
>"The captain looked at me warmly and softly urged me to leave. When I was at the exit, I was hit on my back with strong gust and I heard an explosion." >Raginis then decided to end the resistance and committed suicide by throwing himself on a grenade.[1][2] >In his diaries, Guderian noted that 900 German soldiers were killed in action, although that number is probably a low estimate.[10] It is certain, however, that the Wehrmacht lost at least 10 tanks and several other AFVs in the struggle.[11][12]
>The defense of Wizna, despite the clear imbalance of forces, of which the defenders were aware, was significant.[1] It had pinned down the German forces for two days, allowing the remnants of Polish troops in western Poland to defend the capital, Warsaw.[1] It helped gain time for many Polish units and the government leadership to conduct an orderly withdrawal to the Romanian bridgehead (Polish: Przedmoście rumuńskie).[1]
>Raids from the direction of Coudehard managed to penetrate the Polish defences and take captives. The final German effort came at around 11:00—SS remnants had infiltrated through the wooded hills to the rear of the 1st Armoured Regiment's dressing station. This "suicidal" assault was defeated at point-blank range by the 9th Infantry Battalion with the 1st Armoured Regiment's tanks using their anti-aircraft machine guns in support.[6][58] The machine guns' tracer ammunition set fire to the grass, killing wounded German men on the slope.[59
>Stefanowicz, himself wounded during the day's fighting,[52] struck a fatalistic note as he addressed his four remaining officers: "Gentlemen, all is lost. I do not think that the Canadians can come to our rescue. We have only about 110 able-bodied men left. Five shells per gun and 50 bullets per man. That's very little, but fight all the same. Surrender to the S.S. is futile; you know that. I thank you. You have fought well. Good luck, gentlemen. Tonight we shall die for Poland and for civilization! . . . each tank will fight independently, and eventually each man for himself."[56]
>According to military historian Gregor Dallas: "The Poles had closed the Falaise Pocket. The Poles had opened the gate to Paris."[62] Simonds stated that he had "never seen such wholesale havoc in his life" and Canadian engineers erected a sign on Point 262N's summit reading simply "A Polish Battlefield.[6]
>In 1965 on the battle's 20th anniversary, a monument to the Polish, Canadian, American and French units that took part in the battle was erected on Hill 262.[63] Marking the occasion, former President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower commented that "no other battlefield presented such a horrible sight of death, hell, and total destruction."[64]
Ryder Brown
BAPTISED IN FIRE FORTY TO ONE
Jacob King
>Last week of the war >Hitler already killed himself >Wehrmacht on full retreat on all fronts >Soviets and Americans already met at the Elbe >Battle of Berlin at the end >Poles numerically superior >Still lose
Wyatt Wilson
Soviet tactics
James Scott
To be fair half of the "Polish Army" under the Soviets was actually Russian and Ukrainian
James Lee
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Brody Taylor
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Luis Perry
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Parker Walker
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Jonathan James
here's one
Charles Ward
What's with poles on Veeky Forums?
Adam Fisher
>What's with poles on Veeky Forums? Aren't Poles allowed to post on Veeky Forums or something?
>Sabaton makes a song about this called 40:1 >it was actually 56:1
>former President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower commented that "no other battlefield presented such a horrible sight of death, hell, and total destruction."[64] Hill 262 is a hell of a drug. Pic related
"white" isnt a social club where your insecure shut-in self is the doorman
Brayden Kelly
when you take these battles out of the greater picture it make sit seem like they ere awesome victories.
but the 4th panzer army was surrounded by the soviets, they sent the polish forces to fix them in place while their mobile forces cut them off from behind.
the polish attacking prepared positions head on knew they were going to take heavy casualties, but this was considered.
The Soviets at the end of the day got a bunch of soldiers for their gulag to rebuild their country.
Isaiah Kelly
Gonna post the story to this in a sec
Carter Turner
Antonov's statement: I am presently informing you that, at 1250 hours on 7 November of this year, an automobile column of Red Army forces was attacked by a group of American fighters, which consisted of 27 'Lightening' [sic] aircraft, between Nis and Aleksinac (Yugoslavia). An on-call group of Soviet fighters numbering nine aircraft, which took off from the Nis airfield, was also attacked by these 'Lightenings' at the moment they gathered at altitude and in spite of the fact that the distinctive markings of Red Army Air Force aircraft could be clearly seen. Nevertheless, in the course of 15 minutes, the American 'Lightening' aircraft continued their attacks on the Soviet fighters, which were forced to defend themselves. The 'Lightenings' ceased their attacks only after Captain Koldunov, who was leading the group of Soviet fighters, at risk of being shot down, flew up to the leading group of American fighters and displayed to them the distinctive markings on his aircraft. As a result of the raid by American aircraft on the Soviet vehicle column, the corps commander, Lieutenant General Kotov, two officers, and three servicemen were killed. Twenty vehicles with equipment were burned. Three aircraft from the group of Soviet fighters were shot down, two pilots perished, and, furthermore, four persons were killed by American aircraft fire in the vicinity of the airfield
>This outstanding instance of a strike by American aircraft on a troop column and a group of Red Army aircraft causes extreme bewilderment on our part, since the attack was entirely in the rear area, 50 kilometers from the front lines, between Nis and Aleksinac, which, as early as 14-16 October, a published Soviet Information Bureau report said were occupied by Soviet forces.
Next up: American's testimony
Nathaniel Scott
>The group commander, who was personally leading the squadron which was completing the assault raid, was an experienced combat pilot who had flown more than 4,000 hours. The American group had been carefully prepared and instructed regarding their mission before the flight from their main bases. However, the commander committed a navigation error, and this, together with an astonishing similarity on the map between the outline of the designated objective and the actual attack, led the squadron commander to believe that he was attacking communications lines in the region indicated to him. All of the other American pilots in this group of aircraft were also confident that they had attacked the required objective until the film from the automatic movie camera was revealed, which showed precisely that another road had been mistakenly attacked. Both roads are located approximately at a distance of 88 kilometers or about 10 minutes of flight from one another.
Daniel Kelly
>He [McNarney] informed the War Department that the maps of Novi Pasar and of the actual target were strikingly similar. Moreover, Colonel Edwinson and his top cover squadron leader still maintained that they had started strafing at Novi Pasar. But this assertion did not hold true because an actual analysis of Edwinson's gun camera film later established Krusevac, some 50 miles away, as the actual starting point. The investigators attributed Edwinson's mistake to a navigational error during a 200 mile per hour flight at 50 feet altitude over rugged terrain.
>Despite this explanation, close examination of the terrain, the actual location of the respective German and Soviet front lines in early November, and the distances involved in the supposed navigational error, prompt wellfounded suspicions (See Map 2). This is particularly true given the combat experience of the pilots involved and the low level at which the Lightning aircraft were flying. Furthermore, if Biriuzov's statement in his memoirs was correct, the American flyers should have been aware of the Soviet airfield at Nis, which was well behind Soviet front lines. Added map 2 for context.
Christopher Ross
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Jeremiah Nguyen
BAPTISED IN FIRE FORTY TO ONE AND IT'S THE END OF THE LINE OF THE FINAL JOURNEY THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED
Landon Lewis
Lmao, is this Poland's Trianon?
Jackson Taylor
>gets triggered over Polan wow u tight af lol
Landon Sullivan
>Microsoft edge user KYS SENPAI
Oliver Edwards
Jesus Christ, doesn't matter what side you were on, that's not a way you should die
Benjamin Jones
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Luis Evans
This is what happens when Jew with Kraut military advisor commands Latvian, German, Hungarian and Chinese troops while having 14 canons and 180 machineguns. Reds were the defending side btw. 1500 dead, 2000 captured and 300 drowned in swamps.
Lincoln Thomas
hahahaha lol this BTFOs the retards writting some bullshit like "Wehrmacht were the best soldiers in WW2".
Luis Gonzalez
well, quess who won
Christopher Lopez
*the war
Luis Cox
F to pay respects ):
Mason Gutierrez
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Daniel Butler
Not the czechs, that's for sure lol
Gabriel Nelson
Luigi can't into war
Ryan Ortiz
Wew lad
Owen Howard
>backstab fucking Austria-Hungary when most of their troops are off fighting Russians >manage to fall flat on your face anyway How did they do it?
Jace Nelson
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Grayson Williams
Under Cadorna anything is possible
Adam Ward
HEIL DIR IM SIEGERKRANZ
Adam Smith
Based Cadorno, BTFOing the Spaghettiniggers
Evan Stewart
Cool flag my Czechoslovak brothers. White and red all the way.
Brandon Torres
So no USA and West Europe then?
Sebastian Cox
Kys, slavnigger
Jose Rogers
>"During the first Siege of Diu, a Portuguese soldier who was manning one of the bastions of the fortress that was being attacked by the Turks, found himself as the only survivor, having used all bullets but still having some gun powder for one more shot, and finding nothing else to charge his firearm with, decided to extract one of his own tooth and armed the weapon with it, firing against the enemy that was considering he was out of ammunitions."
Colton Morales
bump
Gavin Mitchell
>hitler killed himself
You really don’t believe that high school tier history do ya?
>you probably believe that prohibition also didn’t work during the 1900s
Idk why non history majors post
Ayden Bailey
Poles have some of the best last stands.
My vote: Battle of Hodów, 1694.
400 Polish cavalry hold off 40k Crimean Tatars for 6 hours. After they ran out of bullets, Tatar arrows were used as makeshift projectiles for their guns.
Tatar casualties: 1-2k Polish Casualties: Less than 100.
Crimean horsemen were no joke either. I can't imagine what the hell went wrong there.
Isaiah Nguyen
damn
Robert Ross
200 winged hussars and 200 pancerni ON FOOT managed to pull that off against hordes of Tatars AND WIN, like damn...
Isaac Phillips
bump
Leo Brooks
poles are such butthurt insects they cling to their glory days like slavs to a bottle of vodka now they flood superior nations with low-skilled immigrants stealing and raping and taking jobs from honest men
Liam Kelly
polack genocide when
Jonathan Sanchez
feast your eyes, the mighty Turkic warrior!
Isaiah Gutierrez
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Nicholas Ramirez
Communist army of prisoners lead by an alcocholic (Soviets had a hard time convincing anyone to join their cause). Find something comparable for the official Polish army that was pushing through German territory on the other side.
Jaxon Richardson
>muh poor refugees
Tyler Smith
Poles are subhuman and deserved it
Cooper Jones
How is this a bad thing by Poland?
Michael Roberts
IN THE HEART OF THE HOLY SEE
Juan Stewart
Better question is if people who post this pic know about how the EU grant system works, how much countries have to pay to different institutions and why and how it's decided which country takes how much etc. There are almost no people on Earth who knows it because it's boring and complicated.
Sebastian Barnes
>The fighting occurred during the Chinese Spring Offensive and saw the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade establish blocking positions in the Kapyong Valley, on a key route south to the capital, Seoul. The two forward battalions—3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3 RAR) and 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (2 PPCLI)—supported by a New Zealand artillery battery, occupied positions astride the valley and hastily developed defences.
>On 24 April, the Chinese launched a massive assault on these two hills. The RAR suffered heavy casualties but continued to fight until it received orders to withdraw. The PPCLI continued to engage the Chinese force and covered the Australian withdrawal. To the south, UN forces were feverishly preparing new defensive positions. Four companies of the PPCLI were all that stood between them and the Chinese army.
>On the night of 24-25 April, the Chinese attacked Hill 677 in waves. Chinese troops employed machine guns and grenades at point-blank range, but the companies of the PPCLI repulsed every assault. The Chinese attacks continued through the night, threatening to overwhelm the Canadians. In the pre-dawn darkness, the commander of "D" company, Captain J.G.W. Mills, made a daring decision. He ordered his troops to take cover in their trenches and then radioed for an artillery barrage on his position.
>As the artillery shells rained down, torrents of hot metal fragments decimated the Chinese ranks. As the sun rose, the PPCLI, although cut off from the rest of the UN forces, still held Hill 677. That morning, American transport planes dropped food, ammunition, and water to the exhausted Canadian companies.
Dumb german propaganda for a couple of reasons: >EU dotations program doesn't work in a way "Hey Poland here is your money spend it on whatever you want!" >EU dotations aren't a gift, but more like a buiseness. Poland receives money to spend on SPECIFIC GOALS (read: on what Germany and the EU allows them to spend), often on goals which benefit Western Europe more than Poland (here, spend this money on a shopping centre where 90% of shops will be Western European or American... see how "generous" we are?) >Poland also gives money to this programm, so now denying it to them because "muh poor refugees" would be a theft >If you don't believe the second argument, then explain to me why Poland was even allowed to join the EU. Also not even going to mention that the most of capital there belongs to Western Europeans. Poland's planned role in the EU was a colony. >Because of above, Poland has no moral reason to suck a W. European dick, and more and more Poles notice it. The current ruling party has just beaten the record of public support, and opposition is just seen as german dick sucking clowns. The only pro-refugee media here are non-Polish, mostly german-owned. >If Poland left the EU, the German and W. European buisenesses here would be threatened. This is why they won't kick Poland out.
Cameron Hill
So, when the EU is so bad for you, why did you join, and why don't you leave? Wait wait, let me guess - German spies and agents influencing your politics, right?
Isaiah Ramirez
>So, when the EU is so bad for you, why did you join, and why don't you leave? The EU changed a lot after Lison Treaty of 2009, and before it it was more balanced. Also it benefits us too, but it doesn't work in just one side. And the main factor why we don't want to leave the EU (and we won't, because W. Europe doesn't really want to kick us out as well) is more simplified intereuropean trade.
Matthew Rodriguez
Also because it protects from the Russian bear
Aiden Martinez
And what exactly is bad about the Lisbon Treaty? That's NATO
Lucas Thompson
Being in the EU adds an extra layer on NATO if the Russians invade Turkey NATO might find an excuse to wiggle out
If the Russians invade an EU member its harder to find a reason not to defend.
Jacob Barnes
New voting system favours Germany and France.
Nolan Cox
Wow, democracies favor the majority, how evil!
Grayson Ross
You are right, democracy is shit. And the EU isn't one country but an organization, where all states should be equal. And this was the EU Poland joined in 2004.
Hunter Gutierrez
All states are equal, but if you have an EU wide election, and a majority (regardless which country it's from) supports a certain decision, that decision is favored. I'm sorry a Polish vote isn't counted twice just because there are less Poles...
Connor Reyes
>All states are equal They are not, that's the point. >I'm sorry a Polish vote isn't counted twice just because there are less Poles... But German vote is because there are more Germans. Why are a bunch of western european cucks allowed to decide about other countries?
Evan Scott
>They are not, that's the point. Your country isn't one homogenous political group, there are different parties and different opinions. One vote from Poland counts as much as a vote from Germany or France. Everything else would be unfair. >But German vote is because there are more Germans. No it's not. A German vote counts as much as anyone else's. >Why are a bunch of western european cucks allowed to decide about other countries? Oh wow, there the insults start. You joined the EU voluntarily, leave if you don't like it. But that wouldn't let you play the victim anymore, so tough decision for you I guess...
Bentley Wood
>Your country isn't one homogenous political group, there are different parties and different opinions. ~55% Pro-Polish, ~20% Anti-Polish, ~25 varied >No it's not. A German vote counts as much as anyone else's. Except it does not. >You joined the EU voluntarily, leave if you don't like it. Why not just change the EU system to make it more fair to Eastern Europeans? Ahh I know, it would make Germans bow to "untermenschen", and lose their control over the 4th reich...
Also I think there is no reason to leave it, because the EU will fall sooner or later anyway. And in the moment it falls, our economy would be most likely on a comparable level to the most of Western Europe.
Hudson Reyes
Does it have anything to do with the thread? That's not /int/.
Parker Brown
>~55% Pro-Polish, ~20% Anti-Polish, ~25 varied Yes, defaming different opinions sure shows a bit >Except it does not. Nice argument >hy not just change the EU system to make it more fair to Eastern Europeans? It is fair, everyone's vote counts equally. Anything else would be unfair. >Ahh I know, it would make Germans bow to "untermenschen", and lose their control over the 4th reich... Not an argument
Bentley Anderson
>Yes, defaming different opinions sure shows a bit How can I call someone voing for a party, which was intentionally destroying Polish Airlines and Polish coal mines just to sell them out later? (Fortunetaly, they failed to do so). >Nice argument Germany and Poland should have exactly the same votes, beacuse they are both two independent countries. >It is fair, everyone's vote counts equally. Anything else would be unfair. Not fair if we are talking about the various sovereign states. >Not an argument Except it is. I want a balanced union, not a Western-dominated one.
Ryan Roberts
>How can I call someone voing for a party, which was intentionally destroying Polish Airlines and Polish coal mines just to sell them out later? (Fortunetaly, they failed to do so). Fair enough, I don't know enough about Polish parties to talk here >Germany and Poland should have exactly the same votes, beacuse they are both two independent countries. Then a single vote from a Pole would count twice as much as that from a German. Seriously, is that so hard to understand? >Not fair if we are talking about the various sovereign states. These decisions are about political decisions, so the various parties aren't states, but political fractions (like the Polish "Anti-Poles" like you called it and British Labour, German Die Linke) >Except it is. I want a balanced union, not a Western-dominated one. I explained it often enough now.
Alexander Sullivan
Nothing too epic about it. I just love seeing two nazi-collaboratoring fractions going at their throats as the war was at its end
Jacob Foster
trolled well m8
Charles Hughes
OP here, what the fuck >make a thread expecting people to post interesting battles >it turns out into polack-hating shitfest Thanks again for ruining another thread, you goddamn autists.
David Rogers
Those Poles really BTFO'd the Soviets
William Russell
>nobody ever talks about "the battle that saved civilisation"
baka
Aaron Williams
This is how you make last stands
Noah Sanchez
Suck my dick GERMs.
Nathaniel Lewis
How do you know these are Germans?
Brandon Walker
Knowledge of history that you don't posses.
Logan Myers
>last stands
posting the obligatory one
>According to Michael Critobulus (writing later in Mehmed's service), he (Constantine XI) remarked, "The city is fallen and I am still alive."[28] Then he tore off his imperial ornaments so as to let nothing distinguish him from any other soldier and led his remaining soldiers into a last charge where he was killed.[29]
Joshua White
Danzig ist Polnisch
Brayden Clark
>thread about last stands >inevitably alot of Polish battles and victories >Germans get buttmad lel every time
Alexander Phillips
I have a good nose for GERMans.
Anthony Garcia
>t. eternal GERM never sleeps
Jaxson Robinson
They also set a trap for them, before the final charge they set a slow burning explosive, when turks entered the fort afterwards, another ~2500 of them went to hell, with vizier escaping just barely
Hudson Allen
I mean, the anons that insulted you are obviously wrong, but why these memes (assuming you two come from EU member states)? >Your country voluntarily joins the EU >Cry oppression and claim to be the victim somehow >Still stay in the EU Explain please.
