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This medal has been minted in 1993 to commemorative Gen. Stanislaw Sosabowski of First Polish PARA Bde. during the World War II.
Medal made by Polish National Mint - marked (see photos).
av. Portrait of Gen. Sosabowski
rv. Polish WWII Polish paratroopers, Polish inscription
diameter -
metal – bronze metal
weight about 130gr. (about 4.60 oz.)
The 1st
(Polish) Independent Parachute Brigade was a parachute brigade under command of
Maj.Gen. Stanisław Sosabowski, created in Scotland in September 1941 with the
exclusive mission to drop into occupied Poland in order to help liberate the
country. All Polish units under British command (over 240,000 soldiers) could
be sent into action at any part of the Western front. The 1st Polish
Independent Parachute Brigade would fight for Poland on Polish territory.
Operation
Market Garden (September 17, 1944–September 25, 1944) was an Allied military
operation in World War II in the Netherlands and Germany. Through large-scale
use of airborne forces, its tactical objectives were to secure a series of
bridges over the main rivers of the German-occupied Netherlands to allow rapid
advance by armored units. The strategic purpose was to allow an Allied crossing
of the Rhine river, the last major natural barrier to an advance into Germany.
The planned rapid advance from the Dutch-Belgian border into northern Germany,
across the Maas (Meuse) and two arms of the Rhine (the Waal and the Lower
Rhine), would have outflanked the Siegfried Line and made possible an
encirclement of the Ruhr Area, Germany's industrial heartland.
The
operation was initially successful with the capture of the Waal bridge at
Nijmegen on September 20. But it was a failure overall since the planned Allied
advance across the Rhine at Arnhem had to be abandoned. The British 1st
Airborne Division did not secure the bridge at Arnhem, and although they
managed to hold out near the bridge far longer than planned, the British XXX
Corps failed to relieve them. The Rhine remained a barrier to the Allied
advance until the offensives at Remagen, Oppenheim, Rees and Wesel in March
1945. Due to the Allied defeat at Arnhem, the north of the Netherlands could
not be liberated before winter and the Hongerwinter ('Hungerwinter') took tens
of thousands of lives, particularly in the cities of the Randstad area.
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