Formation Badge, 1st Armoured Division (Poland), BeVo, German Made
Genuine 1st Armoured Division (Poland) formation badge, BeVo version made in Germany during the occupation period.
The 1st Armoured Division (Poland) was reconstituted in the United Kingdom after the 1939 campaign under the command of the renowned Polish General Stanisław Maczek, a veteran of the defense of Poland and one of the most talented armoured commanders of the Second World War.
Equipped primarily with Sherman, Cromwell, and Stuart tanks, the division was assigned to the First Canadian Army for the liberation of Western Europe.
Landing in Normandy at the end of July 1944, the division distinguished itself during the Battle of Falaise by helping to close the Chambois Pocket. It then advanced through Belgium and the Netherlands, before ending the war by capturing the German naval base of Wilhelmshaven on May 5, 1945.
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