Pinoys In Poland

Polish Army Day is marking the 1920 breakthrough battle called Cud nad Wisłą (the Miracle on the Vistula river) between the Poles under Marshal Piłsudski and the Bolsheviks. The military parade in 2019 will be held not in Warsaw but in Katowice . This year's military parade on Polish Armed Forces Day on August 15 will be held in Katowice to commemorate the 99th anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw and the centenary of the 1st Silesian Uprising. Over 2,600 soldiers, 190 vehicles and 60 aircraft will take part in the "Faithful to Poland" parade. Polish troops will be marching side-by-side with allied soldiers from the United States, Great Britain, Croatia and Romania stationed in Poland. Polish Armed Forces Day was established in 1923, liquidated by Poland's communist authorities in 1947, and reinstated in 1992. It commemorated a very important victory over the Red Army in the Battle of Warsaw, won by the Polish side in August of 1920. In the wake of the foll...