After the fall of France in May 1940, he was evacuated to England and served on coastal defences before being trained and equipped for the Normandy landings. He completed an Officer Cadet Training Course and, rather reluctantly, resumed his studies and obtained his matriculation certificate at the Polish Lyceum in Scotland. The core of the Tank Training Centre was to consist of the 5th and the 6th Tank Battalions. At the beginning the Centre was located in the region of Carabalty in the vicinity of Frunze. The training started on 15 Feb. 1942. In the second half of 1942, during the big German offensive in the Caucasus, Stalin agreed that the Polish formation could be used on the Middle Eastern front in Persia (Iran). Towards the end of March troops were evacuated to Iran and he "Anders Army" was transferred from Krasnovodsk across the Caspian Sea to the port of Pahlavi (today Bandar-e Anzali) and a makeshift city comprising over 2000 tents (provided by the Iranian army) was hastily erected along the shoreline of Pahlavi to accommodate them. Jerzy Lukowski, Hubert Zawadzki: A Concise History of Poland, 2006. Google Books (17 July 2006). Retrieved on 23 June 2011.

allowed the French 20th and 59th Infantry Divisions to escape through the St. Gond marshes. On 15th June the brigade crossed the river Seine at Bar sur Seine being assembled and reorganized in the Glasgow area as the 1st Polish Army Corps under the command of General Marian Kukiel. Their duties were building

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For several days, as the 5th and 7th German Armies faced encirclement, the Polish forces played a crucial part in the face of desperate efforts by German SS Panzer units to force an escape route. Problems with linking up with formations on the flanks left them at times surrounded and desperately low on ammunition. He married and settled in the countryside, near Henley-on-Thames. He tried to recreate something like his former life in Poland, observing the traditions that his father and forefathers knew. Through the 1970s and 1980s, he played an active role amongst the Polish diaspora. Eventually, he gained a foothold as a technical representative in the business of supplying manufacturing machinery to industry. After a great deal of hard work, this led to a profitable agency and a directorship of his own company. Parts of the tank’s front armour were comparable to that of medium tanks. Against all shots hitting the front of the vehicle it counts its damage as 9+

On 22 October 1940, the Battalion was moved to Blairgowrie in Pertshire, where it was stationed for 17 months. A close bond formed between the soldiers and the local population. Blairgowrie became the adopted home of the Battalion. Its men would never forget the kindness and hospitality of the people. Infantry training took place during the winter of 1940 and preparations made for the anticipated invasion. Tanks finally arrived in the spring of 1941. The first to arrive were Valentines. A few months later, they received Mark I's. Their arrival boosted morale.The Polish military leader in exile, General Sikorski, named General Władysław Anders as commander of the new army. Abarinov, Vladimir (1991). The Murderers of Katyn. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 978-0-7818-0032-7. Stanisław Maczek. "The 1st Polish Armoured Division in Normandy". Canadian Military History. 15 (2). After World War I the Polish Armed Forces received the Renault FT light tank, with 174 FTs being used by its forces. In 1918 the newly organized Polish 1st Tank Regiment (1 Pułk Czołgów) had been equipped with 120 of the small but relatively fast Renault FT tanks. The 1st Tank Regiment consisted of four tank companies organised into two Battalions and saw fighting during the Polish–Ukrainian War after the dissolution of Austria-Hungary in a Polish offensive in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia carried out by units of the Polish Army aided by the newly arrived Blue Army of General Józef Haller de Hallenburg. This army, composed of Polish forces which had fought for the Entente on the Western front, [1] numbering 60,000 troops, [2] came with tanks supplied by the Western allies and partially staffed with experienced French officers. The unit was based on equipment and part of personnel of former French 505th Tank Regiment, and was equipped with the most modern tanks of the time, the Renault FT. After the war the 1st Tank Regiment, along with Gen. Haller's Army, returned to Poland, with all equipment. Thanks to this, Poland became the fourth biggest armoured power in the world at that time.

Jarymowycz, Roman Johann (2001). Tank Tactics: From Normandy to Lorraine. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner. ISBN 978-1-55587-950-1.

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On the 19th of August Lieutenant-Colonel Koszutski’s group, reinforced by the 9th Battalion of the Light Infantry, arrived on Hill 262. On the night of August 19th/20th, therefore, two armoured regiments and three battalions of light infantry held this strategic position. It was to be a terrible night. battalions, a motorized cavalry regiment consisting of two battalions, an artillery battery equipped with 105mm and an anti-aircraft troop. Initially moved by rail to