Polish Defensive War
Like all of the ships of the Riverine Flotilla of the Polish Navy in Pinsk, she was not used in combat during the Polish Defensive War. After the Soviet invasion of Poland, she was scuttled on the Pripyat River on 18 September 1939, because of the impossibility of withdrawal.
Read more about this topic: ORP Warszawa (1920)
Famous quotes containing the words polish, defensive and/or war:
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Then I write the pretty mottoes which you find inside the
crackers’—”
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