27th Volhynian Infantry Division was a World War II Polish Home Army formed in the Volhynia region in 1944. It was created on January 15, 1944, from smaller partisan self-defence units during the Volh
An official oath of the division's soldiers, winter 1944
Operation Tempest
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Operation Tempest or Operation Burza was a series of uprisings conducted during World War II against occupying German forces by the Polish Home Army, the dominant force in the Polish resistance.
27th Volhynian Infantry Division
…27th Volhynian Infantry Division of the Home Army (AK) was the first large Polish military unit to openly engage in combat with the Germans as part of Operation Tempest. Volhynia, even before the war, was a region with the smallest percentage of Polish population, further decimated by Soviet deportations, German terror…
Polish soldiers during the Warsaw Uprising.
Captain "Mruk" of the Radom–Kielce area Home Army, with a Soviet reconnaissance patrol
Polish Home Army's 7th Infantry Division, from the Radom–Kielce area, during Operation Tempest
Polish Home Army's 26th Infantry Regiment en route from the Kielce–Radom area to Warsaw in an attempt to join the Warsaw Uprising