Independent Parachute Brigade
(Samodzielna Brygada Spadochronowa)
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Brigade information
Brigade troops
Assignments

Brigade information
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History
Dropped during operation Market Garden near Driel, the Netherlands.

Campaigns
Western Europe 1944-1945 in WWII

Commanding General (CG)
00.00.0000-00.00.0000 Gen. S. Sosabowski

Brigade troops
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Infantry
1st Parachute Infantry Battalion 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- CO: Col. Rawicz Szezerbo 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- 1st Parachute Infantry Company 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- 2nd Parachute Infantry Company 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- 3rd Parachute Infantry Company 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- Headquarters Company 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- Anti-tank Platoon (part of the Hq Co.) 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- Mortar Platoon (part of the Hq Co.) 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
2nd Parachute Infantry Batalion 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- CO: Capt. Sobocinski Waclaw
00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- 4th Parachute Infantry Company 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- 5th Parachute Infantry Company 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- 6th Parachute Infantry Company 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- Headquarters Company 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- Anti-tank Platoon (part of the Hq Co.) 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- Mortar Platoon (part of the Hq Co.) 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
3rd Parachute Infantry Battalion 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- CO: Maj. Ploszewski Waclaw
00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- 7th Parachute Infantry Company 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- 8th Parachute Infantry Company 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- 9th Parachute Infantry Company 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- Headquarters Company 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- Anti-tank Platoon (part of the Hq Co.) 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- Mortar Platoon (part of the Hq Co.) 00.00.0000-00.00.0000

Other troops
Brigade Headquarters 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
Airborne Signal Company 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
Airborne Engineer Company 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
Airborne Supply Company 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
Airborne Light Battery 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
Parachute Medical Company 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
Airborne Anti-Tank Section 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- Headquarters 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- 1st Battery 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- 2nd Battery 00.00.0000-00.00.0000
- 3rd Battery 00.00.0000-00.00.0000

Assignments
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Date Assigned to Corps Assigned to Army Attached to Army Assigned to Army Group Attached to Army Group
00.00.0000 1st Corps        
Sources & links: Short summary of Polish armed forces 1940-45
  Remember September '44
  Cholewczynski G.F., De Polen van Driel, 1989 (ISBN: 90-71743-10-1)
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