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The story of paratrooper chaplains of the 1st independent Parachute Brigade

Kilian M.

Zeszyty Naukowe / Wyższa Szkoła Oficerska Wojsk Lądowych im. gen. T. Kościuszki

2016

Nr 1

5--28

The 1st Independent Parachute Brigade was established in the UK under the command of Colonel Stanisław Sosabowski in 1941. Each front soldier of the brigade had to be a paratrooper. This requirement concerned the brigade chaplains as well. Priests Franciszek Mientki, Alfred Hubert Bednorz and Hubert Misiuda took part in the airborne landing at Arnhem-Driel as part of the Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands in September 1944, jumping on the battlefield by parachute. On the night of 25/26 September, during the evacuation of the brigade across the river Rhine, chaplain Misiuda died. Chaplains F. Mientki, A. Bednorz and, posthumously, H. Misiuda were awarded the Cross of Valour for their courage and dedication shown during the fights of the 1st Independent Parachute Brigade.

I Polska Samodzielna Brygada Spadochronowa gen. Stanisława Sosabowskiego w Bitwie pod Arnhem

Zuziak J.

Zeszyty Naukowe AON

2000

nr 2(39)

249-260

In September 1944, the largest in history air landing operation was carried out under the code name “Market” on the territory of Holland. Together with the part including land forces operations (code name “Garden”) it was, according to the allied forces’ command, to create appropriate conditions to attack Germany’s industrial “heart” the Ruhr District. Marshall Bernard Montgomery thought that all these operations might lead to defeat German forces and finish the war in 1944. Apart from American and British paratroops, also the Polish First Independent Parachute Brigade commanded by Brig. Gen. Stanisław Sosabowski took part in the operation “Market” . Together with the British First Airborne Division it was to capture bridges and the bridgehead on the northern bank of the Rein in the vicinity of Arnhem. The operation, because of many reasons, ended with complete failure. The hardest fights took place in the area of Arnhem. The Polish brigade played a great role in them suffering great losses.