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Battle of Kampinos Forest

Battles of the Invasion of PolandWarsaw Voivodeship (1919–1939)

The Battle of Kampinos Forest was in fact a series of skirmishes and battles fought in the forests around Kampinos during the Invasion of Poland of 1939, between the Polish Army and the German Wehrmacht. By 16 September, the remnants of the Polish Wielkopolska Cavalry Brigade, the Podolska Cavalry Brigade, and the 15th and 25th Infantry Divisions, broke out of the Bzura Pocket into the Kampinos Forest.: 67  They were withdrawing through the large forest complex towards Warsaw and the Modlin Fortress. The route was adopted by the Pomorze Army, under Gen. Władysław Bortnowski, the Poznań Army, under Gen. Tadeusz Kutrzeba. At the same time the German Wehrmacht tried to cut the Polish forces out by assaulting the forests both from the north and from the south.

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Battle of Kampinos Forest
Dolna, gmina Kampinos

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Dolna 15
05-085 gmina Kampinos
Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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