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In the album there were 216 images taken from the resources of the Imperial War Museum in London and over 80 photographs from the collection of the Gdansk Museum of the SECOND World War, who considered this post.

Yuri Gasior – employee of the London Museum, Imperial War Museum London with Dr Ian Szkudlińskim and Arthur Wodzyńskim, they made a selection of photographs showing, in particular, housing in cages, on the way to the army, in the battle, daily workouts, food, nutrition, hygiene, General handling of the Nativity or a hospital stay and treatment of soldiers.

Many of our grandmothers and grandfathers, fathers or uncles, as embodied initially Wehrmacht was in the West, and served in the Polish Armed Forces. Maybe you’ll find someone from your family in these photos? It’s worth booking yourself on the first Saturday of February at the reception to Hello! Rybnik.

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Guest of our meeting, their Union will not take a gander will be corporal James Tynka soldiers of the special forces taking part, in particular, the mission in Afghanistan as a member of the assault company 16. battalion powietrznodesantowego. We learn how looks daily life of Polish soldiers in the modern army compared to the times immortalized in photos in the album “daily life of the soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces in the West 1939-1947″.