Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski
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Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski codenames: Alek, Glizda, Kopernicki, Koziorożec was a Polish scoutmaster, Polish Scouting resistance activist and Second Lieutenant of the Armia Krajowa during the Second Worl
Dawidowski Alek
Grave of Dawidowski and Jan Bytnar in Powązki Military Cemetery.
Zośka Battalion
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Battalion Zośka was a paramilitary scouts battalion that specialized in field intelligence gathering, irregular warfare and scouting of the Polish resistance movement organisation - Home Army during W
Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski
…aged 22. During the Warsaw Uprising, Dawidowski's code name Alek was later used as the code name for the 2nd Platoon of the 2nd company ("Rudy") of Batalion Zośka. He was posthumously awarded the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari and promoted to sergeant. In 2011 he was posthumously awarded the Commander's…
Captured German Panther tank – armored platoon of Battalion Zośka under command of Wacław Micuta
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Prisoners of Gęsiówka and the Zośka fighters after the liberation of the camp in August 1944
Warsaw Uprising 5 August 1944 in Gęsiówka. The men are dressed in captured German uniforms and armed with confiscated German weapons. From left: Wojciech Omyła "Wojtek", Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski "Laudański" and Tadeusz Milewski "Ćwik". Milewski was killed on the same day. Omyla was killed several days later on 8 August 1944.