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Men of the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade training in Scotland in 1943. (Trails of Hope, Polish Institute of National Remembrance)

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1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade

A brief history of the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade Group in the UK during World War II.

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82nd Airborne paratroops at Cottesmore airfield on 17 September 1944

An officer of the 82nd Airborne Division briefs his men at Cottesmore airfield before embarking for the Netherlands on Operation MARKET GARDEN, 17 September 1944. (US Army Signal Corps)

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A Story of Three Nations

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C-47 aircraft dropping British paratroops at Arnhem

17 September 1944: Men of the British 3rd Parachute Battalion jumping from C-47s of the US 314th Troop Carrier Group over the dropzone at Renkum, near Arnhem. (Paradata/Airborne Assault Museum)

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Operation MARKET GARDEN

The Allied operation in September 1944 when Allied Airborne troops captured bridges in the Netherlands and Allied ground forces tried to advance northwards from the Belgian border to the town of Arnhem.

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Beautiful Stamford hosted Polish airborne forces as they prepared for Operation Market Garden

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Polish forces called Stamford home

Polish troops were stationed in and around Stamford.

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The sheepdog that cheered Polish paratroopers

Rescued from a bombed-out ruin in London, Smokey the sheepdog found safety and a home in Stamford with the 1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade. There was, sadly, to be no happy ending.

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