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Poolse troepen in Nederland. Polish troops liberate key Dutch towns. Their battle won, Polish troops drown exhaustion in sleep at the foot of a haystack near Breda, strategic industrial center which they helped liberate October 29, 1944. One artilleryman (right) reads a letter from home at the conclusion of the assault which swept the Nazis from the ancient city guarding the approaches to the mouth ...

Poolse troepen in Nederland. Liberating Polish forces honored by Dutch city. The celebration of Mass at an altar created in the Chassé Kazern of Breda. Over the altar rose a great cross flanked by the Dutch national colors and the Polish eagle.

Poolse troepen in Nederland. Polish troops liberate key Dutch towns. Polish soldiers inspect the victory signs which the fearless people of Breda erected even before the Dutch city was liberated, October 29, 1944. Wooden shoes with their toes pointed toward Berlin and brooms, symbolically representing the sweeping out of the Nazis, welcomed Allied forces into Breda, important strongpoint guarding approaches ...

Poolse troepen in Nederland. Polish troops liberate key Dutch towns. A Polish tanks rumbles through Alphen, on the way to the key Nazi strongpoint of Tilburg, which was liberated October 27, 1944. In Alphen, one Polish platoon resisted continuous German shell and mortar fire for 16 days until they were reinforced and forced the enemy back toward the Maas River.