THE POLISH ARMY IN THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN, 1943-1945 - This is the bunker manned by three German paratroopers (commanded by Paul Minich, who is probably holding the flag), responsible for death (amongst others) of Major Ludomir Tarkowski, the Deputy CO of the 5th Battalion, 2nd Brigade (3rd Carpathian Rifles Division, 2nd Polish Corps), shot dead on 22 May. Major Tarkowski was leading an assault on pillbox was discovered when AFPU cameramen, Sergeants Johnson and Barnes wanted Lesiak to stage a prisoner taking operation. At the same precise time the Germans decided to surrender. O
THE POLISH ARMY IN THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN, 1943-1945 - This is the bunker manned by three German paratroopers (commanded by Paul Minich, who is probably holding the flag), responsible for death (amongst others) of Major Ludomir Tarkowski, the Deputy CO of the 5th Battalion, 2nd Brigade (3rd Carpathian Rifles Division, 2nd Polish Corps), shot dead on 22 May. Major Tarkowski was leading an assault on pillbox was discovered when AFPU cameramen, Sergeants Johnson and Barnes wanted Lesiak to stage a prisoner taking operation. At the same precise time the Germans decided to surrender. Officer Cadet Jerzy Lesiak of the 6th Armoured Regiment (2nd Warsaw Armoured Brigade, 2nd Polish Corps) aiming his Thompson submachine gun at a German sniper who decided to surrender by waiving a white flag from ruins of his bunker at Piedimonte San Germano, 25 May 1944. , Polish Army, Polish Armed Forces in the West, Polish Corps, II, Polish Armed Forces in the West, 2nd Corps, 2nd "Warsaw" Armoured Division, Polish Armed Forces in the West, 2nd Corps, 2nd 'Warsaw' Armoured Division, 6th 'Children of Lwów' Armoured Regiment, 8th Army
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