Education · basic · 12 min
Polish soldiers on the Allied fronts, 1940–1945
After September 1939 Polish forces kept fighting in the west. Follow them from Narvik to Bologna and check what you remember; each step rests on events in the atlas database.
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28 May 1940
Norwegian, British, French and Polish troops recapture Narvik on 28 May 1940, but evacuate it in early June because of the defeat in France.
Event: Battles of Narvik
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