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Old March 31st, 2009, 02:33 PM

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Default Re: Armoured Car Tactics

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Originally Posted by Marek_Tucan View Post
That's what the article states. The Polish cavalry charged German infantry Bn, which got dispersed, the armor came in after that, caused casaulties and forced the Poles to retreat. Tanks came in the next day, and on that day the war correspondents came as well, so they saw Panzers and dead cavalrymen on one place...
To read some of the accounts, you would see that if they engaged anything, accidentally or otherwise, it was armored cars, and yet the lie has ballooned enough for people to not only think they were charging tanks, but that also the Poles were entirely a primitive army relying on horse cavalry.
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