Caption | Polish resistance fighter with Blyskawica submachine gun during the Warsaw Uprising, Powisle district, Warsaw, Poland, Aug 1944 ww2dbase | |||||||
Photographer | Tadeusz Bukowski | |||||||
Source | ww2dbaseWikimedia Commons | |||||||
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Photo Size | 640 x 442 pixels | |||||||
Photos at Same Place | Warsaw, Poland | |||||||
Added By | C. Peter Chen | |||||||
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Visitor Submitted Comments
2. Anonymous says:
2 Aug 2013 06:42:55 PM
Instead of standing idly by you could have supplied the Jewish Resistance with a few during the Ghetto Uprising.
2 Aug 2013 06:42:55 PM
Instead of standing idly by you could have supplied the Jewish Resistance with a few during the Ghetto Uprising.
3. Anonymous says:
28 Dec 2013 02:03:35 PM
Stupid comment of someone who knows nothing about that time, facts and reality. Read more, (i.e. about Warsaw uprising 1944) maybe you will understand.
28 Dec 2013 02:03:35 PM
Stupid comment of someone who knows nothing about that time, facts and reality. Read more, (i.e. about Warsaw uprising 1944) maybe you will understand.
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4 Nov 2011 04:43:03 PM
The Blyskawica (Lightning) was a 9mm easy to use Sub machine gun. Designed in 1943 for the Polish Home Army/Resistance simple in design and easy to build.Rate-of-fire 550 to 650rpm used a 32 round box magazine. 700 hundred were built.The resistance fighter is identified by the white/red arm band on his civilian coat,he's wearing a Germam M43 field cap.