Polish Soldiers Battledress Jacket (WW2)

Polish Soldiers Battledress Jacket (WW2)

RARE Polish Battledress Jacket, privately tailored battledress blouse, no markings inside.

The remains of a Polish flash insignia to one of the shoulders, all other insignia have been ripped or cut off. see photo’s

The blouse has been converted with a few modifications, one, shoulder pads have been added inside to give the jacket structure which is a typical modification found on Second world War officers battledress, also extra hooks to the bottom edge of the blouse to attach to the trousers , so that the jacket doesn’t ride up.

This was probably a Captain and for these changes to this jacket probably date it from 1944 onwards, Arnhem, D.Day periods.

Jacket has some moth which has been treated, see photo’s

Polish Soldiers Battledress Jacket,(WW2)

The German invasion of Poland began on 1 September 1939. The Wehrmacht seized half of Poland quickly despite heavy Polish resistance. Among the erroneous myths generated by this campaign were accounts of Polish cavalry charging German tanks, which did not, in fact, take place. In the east, the Red Army took the other half of the country in accordance with the Nazi-Soviet Pact. Following the country’s fall, Polish soldiers began regrouping in what was to become the Polish Army in France.

Both the Polish Armed Forces in the West and the Polish Armed Forces in the East, as well as interior (partisan) forces, primarily represented by the Home Army (AK) had land forces during the Second World War. While the forces fighting under the Allied banner were supported by the Polish Air Force and Navy, the partisan forces were an exclusively land formation.

The army operational today has its roots in the surrogate force formed in support of Soviet interests during the establishment of the People’s Republic of Poland after the Second World War. Two Polish armies, the First Army (Poland) and the Second Army fought with the Red Army on the Eastern Front, supported by some Polish Air Force elements. The formation of a Third Army was begun but not completed.