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Second World War
1939 Polish Defensive War
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One of the cal.100mm guns of the „Cannet” battery installed in the Oksywie near Gdynia. The ORP “Bałtyk” school ship can be seen in the background of the photo.


 
 
Polish cannon cal. 152,4 mm – one of the four of that type installed on the Hel Peninsula. The battery played a very important role during the defense of the Hel area in September 1939. 


 
German armored car CdKfz 232 Fu (Radio) used during the Polish Campaign in September 1939.






German troops on march during the invasion of Poland in September 1939.



 
 
Polish Military Transit Depot in Westerplatte after the capitulation.




Ruins of a Polish village during the siege of Warsaw in September 1939.




 
Ruins of a village in the Lublin district after heavy fights between Polish and German troops. September 1939.


 
 
Polish weapons gathered by the Germans in the Brühl’s Palace after the capitulation of Warsaw.


   
Polish citizens stopped at a German checkpoint on the outskirts of Warsaw in Wola district. Autumn 1939.




German soldier standing next to the Prince Józef Poniatowski monument located in front of the Saski Palace in Warsaw. Autumn 1939.


 
 
Demarcation line between the Third Reich, Soviet Union and Lithuania after the invasion of Poland in 1939.
 



German soldier writing some annotations on the German-Soviet demarcation line in Autumn 1939.
 


Courtesy of Polish History Museum

MHP


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