Word: bor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warsaw Tragedy. The sounds of battle between Polish partisans and Germans in Warsaw died out. The spokesman and leader of the partisans, the man who made himself known to the world as General Bor, flashed a message to the Polish government in London: "Warsaw has fallen after exhausting all supplies and ammunition on the 63rd day of the struggle. . . ." Then Bor surrendered to the Germans with his garrison, his staff and his wife, who had borne a child during the uprising...
Previously, the London Poles had disclosed that Bor was Lieut. General Tadeusz Komorowski, a regular-army cavalry officer. Blue-eyed, dapper, cleanshaven, lean and tall, he was born 46 years ago near Lvov, fought the Germans in the last war, was slightly wounded in Warsaw, later became an officer and attended the Ecole de Guerre in Paris. He was commanding a cavalry brigade in 1939 when Poland fell. In the summer of 1943 General Wladislaw Sikorsky appointed him chief of the Polish underground, less than 24 hours before Sikorsky was killed in an airplane crash. The Germans were said...
Despite destruction, disease, famine and continued German shelling, the outlook for the Warsaw patriots under their pseudonymous commander Bor, now promoted to Major General, was improving. Crossing the Vistula under enemy fire from the bluffs, Russian units carved out a modest bridgehead on the west bank, made contact with Bor's forces...
...R.A.F. last week told the story of how it dropped supplies to General Bor's forces in Warsaw (see above). Ordered by Churchill in August, the assignment fell to two British units and one Polish flight of the Balkan Air Force. Though they had had months of experience in dropping arms to partisans in enemy-held territory, this job made the airmen blanch. It meant flying 900 miles each way over hostile territory; part over Czechoslovakia, through some of the heaviest flak in Europe. Fighter cover was impossible and all the way back Nazi night fighters would...
...Began to draft a Polish army of from 200,000 to 500,000 men, banned all other Polish military organizations. Presumably this ban would include the London Government's strong Partisan groups, among which are the forces of General Bor, who was still holding out against the Germans in Warsaw. (Last week, for the first time, Red Army planes dropped supplies to the embattled Partisans in the city...