THE POLISH ARMY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1942-1943 - After a long journey by the RASC transport from the Persian Caspian Sea port of Pahlevi (Rasht), cheerful Polish troops lining up for inspection. After the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939 large numbers of Polish troops were rounded up and imprisoned in various Gulag camps by the Russians along with enormous numbers of civilians. Following German invasion of Soviet Union and the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement, these Poles were 3 May 1942 various units of the Polish Army in the Soviet Union (mainly 9th and 10th Infantry Divisions
THE POLISH ARMY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1942-1943 - After a long journey by the RASC transport from the Persian Caspian Sea port of Pahlevi (Rasht), cheerful Polish troops lining up for inspection. After the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939 large numbers of Polish troops were rounded up and imprisoned in various Gulag camps by the Russians along with enormous numbers of civilians. Following German invasion of Soviet Union and the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement, these Poles were 3 May 1942 various units of the Polish Army in the Soviet Union (mainly 9th and 10th Infantry Divisions) were merged with the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifles Brigade to form the 3rd Carpathian Rifles pictures show Polish troops arriving in Palestine (very likely Quastina camp) and being fitted out, British Army, Polish Army, Polish Armed Forces in the West, Polish Army in the Middle East, Polish Armed Forces in the West, Polish Corps, II, Polish Armed Forces in the West, Carpathian Rifles Divisior, 3
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