Polish Naval Memories of WWII
The Polish Navy serves in the Norwegian campaign and the Dunkirk evacuation. Losses include 2 submarines, 1 destroyer and 2 merchant ships. The destroyer fleet is moved to Greenock, Scotland for convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic. Polish Navy officers, captured in 1939, are executed by the NKVD in Katyń.
Defence of the Baltic – 1st-25th September 1939
Escape of the 3 Polish destroyers to GB 30th August 1939
ORP Orzel escapes the Baltic, 15th September – 14th October
Polish-British Naval Agreement is signed 18th November 1939
Winston Churchill visits Polish Navy in Plymouth, September