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The 2nd Legions' Infantry Regiment (, 2ppLeg) was a Polish military unit active between 1914 and 1944. Initially a part of the Polish Legions In World War I , after the war it was incorporated into the Polish Army . Disbanded after the Polish Defensive War of 1939, it was recreated during the Armia Krajowa 's Operation Tempest . The regiment was first formed in 1914 in Kraków , as part of the Polish Legions fighting alongside the Austro-Hungarian Army . Initially a part of the Eastern Legion , with time it was joined with the 2nd Brigade Of The Polish Legions . It avoided destruction on the fronts of the Great War and was merged into the newly reborn Polish Army in 1918 . It took part in the Polish-Bolshevik War . After the Peace Of Riga had been signed, the unit was partly demobilized and stationed in Sandomierz , where it formed a part of the Polish 2nd Legions' Infantry Division . ]] With that unit the regiment, headed by Col. Ludwik Czyżewski , formed the backbone of the Piotrków Operational Group at the outbreak of the Polish Defensive War of 1939 . Initially separated from its division, the regiment fought in the Battle Of Borowa Góra of September 5 . On September 9th it joined its division and covered its retreat towards Warsaw . After heavy fights on September 12th and 13th, fought in the area of Błonie , Ołtarzew and Ożarów , the regiment crossed the Kampinos Forest and reached the Modlin Fortress . There, the regiment took part in Defence Of That Area until the capitulation of the fortress on September 29. In August of 1944 , during the Operation Tempest , the 2nd Regiment was recreated from smaller partisan units as part of the 2nd Division fighting in the area of Sandomierz and Opatów . Commanded by Lt.Col. Antoni Wiktorowski ''Kruk'', it fought against the German army in that area until September, when it was disbanded. However, its sub-units continued to operate in the area until the January of 1945, when they were overrun by the Red Army . Most of its soldiers, much like the rest of Armia Krajowa , were then rounded up by the NKVD , disarmed and either forcibly conscripted to the Communist-supported Polish People's Army or sent to the Gulag s in USSR . |
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