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Polish Armed Forces
Sources and Research Assistance
Byron Bostwick
Poland
With thanks for providing details about the Polish water borne forces.

Krzysztof S. Gebhardt
London, England
Thank you for your assistance with small unit organizations.

Wlodek Goleberski
Canada
For providing more details and translations, as well as correcting my miserable typing and Polish translations.
Many thanks Wlodek.

Marek Kiewel
Lodz, Poland
Thank you, Marek, for you continuing detailed corrections and ammendments.

Marek Krzyczkowski
Thank you for your assitance with the Polish Navy.

Rafal Makowski
Lodz, Poland
With thanks for providing the "lesser" units and many other interesting details of the 1939 Polish order of battle.

Robert Postowicz
"Polish Aviation History Page"
Many thanks, Robert, for your data and assistance.

Wojciech Zalewski
Thank you for providing much of the order of battle.

Jerzy B. Cynk
"Wrzesien 1939. Sily lotnicze Polski i. Niemiec"
Wydawnicta Komunikacji i Laczosci, Warsaw, 1989

Jozef Wieslaw Dyskant
"Polska Marynarka Wojenna w 1939 roku"
= czesc 1 - W przededniu wojny =

AJ-Press, Gdansk, 2000

Andrzej Konstankiewicz
"Bron strzelecka Wojska Polskiego 1918-39"
Warsaw, 1986

Janusz Magnuski
"Pociag pancerny 'Smialy' w trzech wojnach"
Pelta, Warsaw, 1996

Oberkommando des Heeres
"Grosses Orientungsheft Polen - Stand: Frühjahr 1939"
Az 3 a/n 50 - 12. Abt.(III) GenStdH, Nr. 550/39 geh.
German military intelligence report dated 1 April 1939, as ammended 20 June 1939
Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv in Freibrug/Breisgau under Nr. RHD 18/271

Jerzy Pawlak
"Wrezesien 1939. Ploskie eskadra w Wonjnie Obronnej"
2nd Edition
Wydawnicta Komunikacji i Laczosci, Warsaw, 1991

Rajmund Szubański
"Polska broń pancerna 1939"
Warsaw, 1989

Rafal Witkowski
"Hel na strazy wybrzeza 1920-1939"
Wydawnictwo MON, Warszawa, 1974

"Wojna obronna Polski 1939"
"Polski Czyn Zbrojny w II wojnie swiatowej", Vol. 1
Warszawa, 1979
(Mobilisation Organisation Plan of Polish Army in September 1939).

An apology to all Polish speakers:
I have knowingly mangled the proper spelling of many Polish names as my small font does not allow using all the correct letters.
 
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