The Polish 1st Armoured Division was an armoured division of the Polish Armed Forces in the West during World War II. Created in February 1942 at Duns in Scotland, it was commanded by Major General St
Crusader tank of the 1st Armoured Division near Haddington 1943.
Polish Crusader AA MKII tank of the 1st Polish Armoured Regiment near Caen at the beginning of the Falaise operation.
German POWs interrogated by a Lieutenant of the 1st Polish Armoured Division during Operation Pheasant, October 1944
1st armoured polish division memorial
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Hill 262, or the Mont Ormel ridge, is an area of high ground above the village of Coudehard in Normandy that was the location of a bloody engagement in the final stages of the Battle of Falaise in the
Polish infantry moving towards cover on Mount Ormel, 20 August 1944.
Lieutenant Kłaptocz of the Polish 1st Armoured Division and Major Leonard Dull of the US 90th Infantry Division, in Chambois, August 1944, after the Allied link-up.
The remains of a retreating German column destroyed by the 1st Armoured Regiment near Hill 262
The remains of a Polish Sherman tank and two German vehicles (a Panther and an Sd.Kfz. 251 halftrack), destroyed in the vicinity of Boisjois near Point 262N