Reply To: Poland 1939 – Preparing for 80th Anniversary of World War II

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@oriskany

This may appeal to your sense of trivia…

Black in-filled crosses were not truly an invention of Poland, but a return to previous campaign markings as an expedient response to their use as aiming points…

 

From 1938;

Poland was largely an Infantry war, despite the glamour and glitz on Panzer units, it was hardly a ‘Blitzkrieg’ and was fought more like 1914 than 1940. It showed what was to come, but did not necessarily show it by example.