Battle of Bukowiec

1939 CE.

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The Battle of Bukowiec was fought on September 3, 1939 near the village of Bukowiec in Poland. The 16th Greater Poland Uhlan Regiment under the command of Lt. Col. Julian Arnoldt-Russocki, supported by the 2nd battery of the 11th horse artillery squadron under the command of Capt. Janusz Pasturak went up against the Wehrmacht 3rd Panzer Division supported by a unit of the 23rd Motorized Infantry Regiment and seventeen Luftwaffe bombers.

Text from the Wikipedia article Battle of Bukowiec, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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