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- When
- 1 Sep 1939
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 53.70° N, 17.57° E
- Description
- 1939 battle
- War
- World War II
Battle of Chojnice (1939)
Battle of the Invasion of Poland during WWII
The Battle of Chojnice occurred during the 1939 German invasion of Poland on the first day of the hostilities, 1 September. A detached unit from the Polish army Chojnice Detached Group under Colonel Kazimierz Tadeusz Majewski, part of the Czersk Operational Group under Stanisław Grzmot-Skotnicki, was assigned the task of defending the city of Chojnice, a major regional communications center, against the advancing Ger…
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