Samodzielna Brygada Strzelców Karpackich w walkach w Afryce Północnej
Journal Title: Zeszyty Naukowe Akademii Sztuki Wojennej - Year 2009, Vol 2009, Issue 3
Abstract
After Poland’s defeat in September 1939, the main civil and military authorities as well as Polish Army units were reconstructed abroad, in France. One of them was the Independent Carpathian Rifle Brigade commanded by Gen. Stanisław Kopański. The French authorities designated a military camp in Homs on the Sirian - Lebanese border for the Brigade to be created. After France’s capitulation in June 1940, the Brigade moved to Palestine and went under the British command. British authorities assigned the camp in Latrum for the Polish Brigade. In the middle of August 1941, the British command, having consulted the Supreme Commander, Gen. Władysław Sikorski, and having his consent, decided about its further use. As it results from the Supreme Commander’s order to the Brigade of 9 November 1941, the initiative to deploy the Brigade to Tobruk was initiated by Gen. Sikorski. The Brigade’s Tobruk epic started in August and finished after 110 days of heavy fighting on the desert in December 1941. Directly after defensive operations, the Brigade chased the withdrawing enemy waging a victorious battle at Gazala, then Bardia. On 22 March 1942, the Brigade was located in the camp El- Amiriya near Alexandria where a few months before it had set off to Tobruk. Thus the Brigade finished its many-month participation in heavy fighting on the desert. Soon thousands of Polish soldiers would arrive from the Soviet Union who together with the Brigade were due to create new numerous units of the Polish Armed Forces. The Third Carpathian Rifle Division was formed on the basis of the Brigade.
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Janusz Zuziak
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