Bravo for your knowledge melnibonian :up:

You wouldn't be surprised, blackdog_kt. Polish Navy wasn't big, but brave as a rest of Polish forces. We lost these warships during 2ndWW:
- one destroyer (ORP Wicher) and one big minelayer (ORP Gryf) during September '39 Campaign;
- one destroyer (ORP Grom) during Norvegian operation in Narvik;
- one submarine (ORP Orzeł) shortly before German invasion on Norway;
- one submarine (ORP Jastrząb) for friendly fire from Norvegian and British ships in convoy;
- one escort destroyer (ORP Kujawiak) on mine in the Med;
- one light cruiser (ORP Dragon) sunk by German midget submarine Neger in Normandy.

I propose you to look in the net for ORP Orzeł escape from Tallin (Estonia), ORP Piorun fight with Bismarck or ORP Garland convoys battles.

Oh Jaxa :oops: ;) :p :up:

It's true what you say for the Polish and Greek Navy and Armed Forces. Still it must be noted that technically the Polish Forces (of all branches of the Armed Forces) were considered either volunteers or answerable to the Excile Polish Government (depending from which side you are looking at it-German/Soviet or British). This is because Poland never signed a Peace Treaty with Germany and USSR, and for the Germans Poland just seezed to exist and was absorbed into the Reich. Actually the reason the USSR used as an excuse for the "intervention" in the Eastern part of the Country (until the Brest-Litovsk Line) was that there was no signal from the Polish government or state for more than 15 days, and therefore the country seezed to exist. In the Greek case because the country signed a formal peace treaty with Germany and Italy, all Greek Armed Forces (especially the Navy) were (technically always) enlisted into the British Army and were treated in the same way as the Commonwealth and Dominion Forces. In the case of the Merchant Hellenic (Greek) Navy the ships were either leased by the Admiralty or seized in Allied ports with "proper compensations".

Therefore as far as the Germans (and unfortunately up to a point the Soviets as well) were concerned a Polish Soldier had no (according to them of course) POW Status either because he was fighting against his "new country" (if considered voluntieer) or because he was conducting "illegal warfare" (since the excile Polish Government was not recognised by Germans and Soviets). The Greeks on the other hand had POW Status as they were enlisted into the British Army (Not that this saved them from suffering in the consentration camps-but that's another story).

You welcome