** 3rd Dutch Hussar, Polish Vistula Lancer Regts.

Thirty-five gliders of the 3rd lift carrying the Polish glider borne elements were delayed in taking off and the whole parachute brigade failed to take off at all.

Talisman was translated into several languages: Finnish ( 2nd Edition ), French ( 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th revised Edition ), German ( 2nd, 3rd and 4th revised Edition ), Italian ( 2nd and 4th revised Edition ), Czech ( 2nd Edition ), Slovak ( 2nd Edition ), Hebrew ( 1st and 2nd Edition ), Swedish ( 1st and 2nd Edition ), Polish ( 2nd and 4th Edition ), and Hungarian ( 4th Edition ).

* Allied heavy bombers bombed the headquarters of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and 1st Polish Armoured Division during Operation Totalize, causing several hundred Allied casualties.

Place and memory in Canada: Global Perspectives, Proceedings of the 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies, Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci, Cracow, 2005.

The Polish 3rd Army easily won border clashes with the Red Army in Ukraine but the Reds withdrew with minimal losses.

The commander of the Polish 3rd Army in Ukraine, General Edward Rydz-Śmigły, decided to break through the Soviet line toward the northwest.

The northern 3rd Cavalry Corps, led by Gayk Bzhishkyan ( Gay Dmitrievich Gay, Gaj-Chan ), were to envelop Polish forces from the north, moving near the Lithuanian and Prussian border ( both of these belonging to nations hostile to Poland ).

The Polish 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division (, sometimes translated as 3rd Carpathian Infantry Division ), also commonly known as Christmas Tree Division due to the characteristic emblem, was an Allied unit fighting during World War II on the Italian Front.

* Vitaral Jelfa Jelenia Góra-women's handball team playing in Polish Ekstraklasa Women's Handball League: 3rd place in 2003 / 2004 season.

The forces of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, loyal to the King and the Great Sejm ( Sejm Wielki ), defended Poland and its May 3rd Constitution against primarily the army of the Russian Empire.

; 3rd Polish Infantry Brigade ( 3 Brygada Strzelców )-Col. Marian Wieroński:

The 3rd Carpathian Division was formed in the Middle East from smaller Polish units fighting in Egypt and Tobruk, as well as the Polish Army in the East that was evacuated from the USSR through the Persian Corridor.

From there the troops were moved to British Mandate of Palestine, where they joined forces with the 3rd Carpathian Division which was composed mostly of Polish soldiers who had managed to escape to French Lebanon through Romania and Hungary after the Polish Defensive War of 1939.

Emblem of the Polish 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division

* Polish 3rd Carpathian Infantry Division CO: Maj. Gen.

On 21 April, Bologna was entered by the Polish 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division, the Italian Friuli Group ( both from Eighth Army ) and the U. S. 34th Infantry Division ( from Fifth Army ).

On the coast, Leese had the Polish II Corps with 5th Kresowa Division in the front line and the 3rd Carpathian Division in reserve.

The commander, colonel Krzyżanowski ordered Polish units to set off for Puszcza Rudnicka, while he went to the headquarters of general Czerniachowski, commander of the 3rd Belorussian Front.

Polish 3rd Infantry Division can refer to several formations of that name:

One exception was a military force of Poles from the Polish Legions that had fought in Napoleon's army.

Henryk Dąbrowski's Polish Legions fought in French campaigns outside of Poland, hoping that their involvement and contribution result in liberation of their Polish homeland.

" The Commandant ": Józef Piłsudski | Piłsudski with Polish Legions in World War I | his men in 1915

After the outbreak of World War I, which confronted the partitioning powers against each other, Piłsudski's paramilitary units stationed in Galicia were turned into the Polish Legions, and as a part of the Austro-Hungarian Army fought on the Russian front.

It is also known by its original title, Pieśń Legionów Polskich we Włoszech (, " Song of the Polish Legions in Italy "), or by its incipit, Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła (, " Poland is not yet lost " or " Poland has not yet perished ").

It was originally meant to boost the morale of Polish soldiers serving under General Jan Henryk Dąbrowski in the Polish Legions, which were part of the French Revolutionary Army led by General Napoléon Bonaparte in its conquest of Italy.

Facsimile of Józef Wybicki | Wybicki's manuscript of the Song of the Polish Legions in Italy

After the Third Partition in 1795, he came to Paris to seek French aid in re-establishing Polish independence and, in 1796, he started the formation of the Polish Legions, a Polish unit of the French Revolutionary Army.

At the end of the war 12, 000 were in the Czechoslovak Legions and the ethnic Polish Blue Army.

* Kingdom of Poland ( 1916 – 1918 ) – The Central Powers ' forces occupied Russian Congress Poland in 1915 and in 1916 the German Empire and Austria-Hungary created a Polish Monarchy in order to exploit the occupied territories in an easier way and mobilize the Poles against the Russians ( see Polish Legions ).

In 1914, Julius joined Józef Piłsudski's Polish Legions and was captured by the Russians and hanged for fighting for the independence of a partitioned Poland.

After the outbreak of World War I, Kielce was the first Polish city to be liberated from Russian rule by the Polish Legions under Józef Piłsudski.

Still devoted to the Polish cause, he took part in creating the Polish Legions.

* Polish Legions, several Polish military units that served with the French Army from the 1790s to the 1810s.

Uniform of 2nd Uhlan Regiment of Polish Legions ( 1914-1918 )

Legionary is also a term used for members of other legions, like French Foreign Legion, Spanish Foreign Legion or Polish Legions.

It was during that time that his pursuit of the retreating Swedes to Pomerania and Denmark ( 1658-1659 ), particularly his crossing with his entire army to the Danish isle of Alsen, was commemorated in the song of the Polish Napoleonic Legions that would eventually become the Polish national anthem, the " Dąbrowski's Mazurka ", with the words commemorating his marine excursion to the island of Als: It was only during the time of the Second Polish Republic when more modern, serious historical work begun analyzing his history that a less hagiographic account begun emerging ; Władysław Czapliński wrote that Czarniecki was " first and foremost a soldier ", and noted his faults such as brutality and greed.

** WWII: The 27th Polish Home Army Infantry Division is re-created, marking the start of Operation Tempest by the Polish Home Army.

This version holds that, as a contingent of the Polish Army was withdrawing through Bydgoszcz ( Army Pomorze's 9th, 15th, and 27th Infantry Division ) it was attacked by German irregulars from within the city.

The 64th and 65th Infantry Regiments and the 16th Light Artillery Regiment of the Polish Army were stationed in Grudziądz during the 19 years of the inter-war period.

Polish units were engaged in battle from 0500 against elements of German 76th Infantry Regiment ( Colonel Hans Gollnick ) of 20th Motorised Division under Lt. Gen. Mauritz von Wiktorin, which operated on the left ( northern ) flank of XIX Panzer Corps under Gen. Heinz Guderian.

The Polish cavalry charge impressed the Germans and caused a delay in the offensive of the German 20th Motorised Infantry Division which considered a tactical retreat.

According to the plans, the Polish Army was supposed to attack Russian Infantry Corps of the Tsar's Guard, which camped at the territory between Augustów and Ostrołęka.

Auchinleck arranged for the 18th Infantry Brigade to be relieved by the Polish Carpathian Brigade so that it could rejoin the 7th Division in August but baulked at relieving the 9th Division.

The battalion was then rallied and withdrawn to Warsaw and then to Brześć, where it shielded the mobilization of the Polish 60th Infantry Division.

The republic was created in 1920 following the staged rebellion of soldiers of the 1st Lithuanian – Belarusian Infantry Division of the Polish Army under Lucjan Żeligowski, supported by the Polish air force, cavalry and artillery.

However, on October 8, General Lucjan Żeligowski and the 1st Lithuanian-Belarusian Infantry Division, along with local Polish inhabitants launched a surprise attack on the weak Lithuanian forces in the area, and most of them retreated.

During the invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War II, Piotrków was the setting for fierce fighting between the Polish 19th Infantry Division and the 16th Panzer Corps of the German Wehrmacht on September 5, 1939.

Also, Suwałki continued to serve as one of the biggest garrisons in Poland, with two regiments of the Polish 29th Infantry Division and almost an entire Suwałki Cavalry Brigade stationed there.

The Polish 1st Legion's Infantry Regiment under the command of Edward Rydz-Śmigły was stationed in the town during 1917.

Between 10 and 13 September the area was the fighting ground of the Polish 18th Infantry Division commanded by Colonel Stefan Kossecki and German XIX Panzer Corps under the command of General Guderian.

Polish soldiers from 33, 71, and 18 Infantry regiments were taken prisoner.

They were later reinforced and replaced by the British 70th Infantry Division, Polish Independent Carpathian Rifle Brigade, a Czechoslovak battalion and a British tank brigade.

* Polish 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division

* Polish 4th Infantry Division

* Polish 5th Infantry Division

* Polish 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division, a Second World War unit, part of the 1st Polish Army