THE POLISH INDEPENDENT CARPATHIAN RIFLES BRIGADE IN PALESTINE, 1940 - Soldiers of the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifles Brigade passing their French mountain guns, 65 mm mle. 1906, on a parade Poles joined the British only 5 days earlier after General Eugene Mittelhauser, a commander of French forces in Syria which the Brigade was part of, decided to support Vichy regime. Photograph taken in the village of Samakh along the Sea of Galilee. Note a French Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun in the foreground Polish Army, Polish Armed Forces in the West, Independent Carpathian Rifles Brigade

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