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WORLD WAR II,

  • Blitzkrieg in Poland.


    Polish strategic doctrine called for a rigid defense of the whole frontier
    and anticipated several weeks of preliminary skirmishing. It was wrong on both
    counts. On the morning of September 1, waves of German bombers hit the railroads
    and hopelessly snarled the Polish mobilization. In four more days, two army
    groups—one on the north out of East Prussia, the other on the south out of
    Silesia—had broken through on relatively narrow fronts and were sending armored
    spearheads on fast drives toward Warsaw and Brest. This was blitzkrieg
    (lightning war): the use of armor, air power, and mobile infantry in a pincers
    movement to encircle the enemy.

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