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    The 2nd (Warsaw) Armoured Brigade (Polish: 2 Warszawska Brygada Pancerna) was an armoured brigade of the Polish Armed Forces in the West during World...
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  • 2nd Armoured Brigade or 2nd Armored Brigade may refer to: 2nd Armoured Brigade (Australia) 2nd Armored Brigade (Chile) 2nd Armoured Brigade (France) 2nd...
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  • 2nd Brigade may refer to: 2nd Brigade (Australia) 2nd Light Horse Brigade 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group 2nd Guards...
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    Warsaw Armoured Brigade 4th 'Skorpion' Armoured Regiment 1st Krechowiecki Uhlan Regiment 6th 'Children of Lwów' Armoured Regiment 2nd Motorised Independent...
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    The 7th Armoured Brigade was an armoured brigade formation of the British Army. The brigade is also known as the "Desert Rats", a nickname formerly held...
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    Stanisław Maczek — comprising: 10th Armoured Cavalry Brigade (10 Brygada Kawalerii Pancernej) – Col. T. Majewski 1st Armoured Regiment (1 pułk pancerny) – Lt...
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  • Poland raised the 2nd Polish Armoured Regiment in France on 29 January 1940 as the 2nd Tank Battalion and fought under this title in the French campaign...
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    overwhelmed the Polish army. Poland acquired and developed tanks and tankettes for its armoured forces and after Poland had been overrun, a government-in-exile...
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  • This is a list of armoured fighting vehicles used by Polish forces. Peugeot 1918 armoured car (Poland bought 20 Peugeot 1918 armoured cars from France...
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  • Telles. featuring a dog named Biruta Biruta (armoured vehicle), a Polish tank; see 2nd Armoured Brigade (Poland) Search for "Biruta" on Wikipedia. Birute...
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    World War and based in Scotland. Originally, the brigade's exclusive mission was to drop into occupied Poland in order to help liberate the country. The British...
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    Second World War. The brigade was a 2nd Line Territorial Army (TA) formation. It was reorganised and renamed the 23rd Armoured Brigade, when it was assigned...
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  • maintained command over the 4th Armoured Brigade based at Osnabruck, the 7th Armoured Brigade at Bergen, and the 20th Armoured Brigade at Paderborn. Combined with...
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    Polish motorized infantry unit during the Invasion of Poland, as Warsaw Armoured Motorized Brigade was not completed by September 1, 1939. Commanded by...
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    Armoured Group was formed under the command of Major L. Furs-Żyrkiewicz. It was made up mostly of soldiers from the former armoured units of Poland....
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    Mechanized Infantry Brigade (Poland) 2 Sudety Armoured Brigade - 65 T-34-85 tanks, 6 M-17 anti-aircraft half tracks 3 Dresden Armoured Brigade - 65 T-34-85 tanks...
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    and 2nd Armoured Brigade was tasked to support the forward battalion of the 133rd Lorried Brigade (2nd King's Royal Rifle Corps) and the 8th Armoured Brigade...
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    Stanisław Maczek (category Recipients of the Cross of Valour (Poland))
    was the commander of Poland's only major armoured formation during the September 1939 campaign, and later commanded a Polish armoured formation in France...
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    NATO Enhanced Forward Presence (category Poland–United Kingdom relations)
    group from the French Army's 9th Light Armoured Marine Brigade consisting of a mechanized infantry company from the 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment equipped with...
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  • This is a list of German brigades in World War II. The list aims to include all brigade-level military formations of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS...
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    Operation Crusader (category Battles and operations of World War II involving Poland)
    British armoured units led to them suffering 530 tank losses and inflicting Axis losses of about 100 tanks. On 23 November, the 5th South African Brigade was...
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    Dywizjon Pociągów Pancernych (2nd Battalion of Armoured Trains) located in Niepołomice near Kraków. As with all other Polish armoured trains of the period it...
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  • List of Polish divisions in World War II (category Lists of military units and formations of Poland)
    Motorized Infantry Brigade - details below. Subordinated to the 2nd Army. 1st Motorized Infantry Brigade (Polish)(East) 2nd Armoured Brigade (2. Brygada Pancerna)...
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    The 2nd Panzer Division (English: 2nd Tank Division) was an armoured division in the German Army, the Heer, during World War II. Created as one of the...
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    saw the formation of a first hussar unit in Poland. Being far more manoeuvrable than the heavily armoured lancers previously employed, the hussars proved...
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    Battle of Studzianki (category 1944 in Poland)
    Red Army's 2nd Guards Tank Army employed as a cavalry mechanized group of the 1st Belorussian Front, together with Polish 1st Armoured Brigade and elements...
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    A military armored (also spelled armoured) car is a wheeled armored fighting vehicle, historically employed for reconnaissance, internal security, armed...
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    The new armoured and mechanised brigades were capable of combined arms combat. Each division was composed of three brigades. The armoured brigades consisted...
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    performed rear security duties in German-occupied Poland. During the Invasion of the Soviet Union, the brigade operated in the rear of the German forces, in...
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    Supercharge, the Scots Greys, now back with the 4th Armoured Brigade, which was attached to the 2nd New Zealand Division, began attempted break-out. In...
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