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Stanisław Sosabowski

Polandb. 8 May 1892 · d. 25 September 1967Add to favourites

Led the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, named in October 1942, and was promoted to brigadier general on 15 June 1944. At Operation Market Garden part of the brigade, with him, landed near Driel on 19 September 1944 and the rest arrived at Grave on 21 September; he made three attempts to cross the Rhine to the surrounded British 1st Airborne Division, and the brigade covered its retreat on 25–26 September. Montgomery blamed him for the operation's failure and the Polish General Staff removed him from command on 27 December 1944. He settled in London after the war and was reinterred at Powązki Military Cemetery in 1969.