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August 24th, 1945 (FRIDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: Repair ship HMS Cape Wrath launched.
Frigate HMS Padstow Bay launched.
U.S.S.R.: The Soviet Union releases 52 American internees.
Pacific Fleet: Submarine “L-19” is lost - mined at Laperouse Strait. (Sergey Anisimov) (69)
INDIA: Frigate INS Sind is commissioned.
JAPAN: Military cadets occupy broadcasting facilities in Kawaguchi, Japan in protest to the Japanese surrender. This is near Tokyo in Saitama Prefecture. General Tanaka goes to the station. He enters and continues to harangues the cadets until they give up.
Late that night, in his office, General Tanaka commits harakiri. He takes the whole responsibility for the destruction by fire of a section of the Imperial Palace. The fire was the result of a USAAF bombing raid. His instructions to the regimental commanders of the Eastern District Army are:
“I am very grateful to all of your regiments for keeping in strict order after the Imperial command to surrender. Now I have fulfilled my duty as Commanding Officer of the District Army. I am determined to lay down my life to beg His Majesty’s awful pardon in place of you and all of your officers and men. I heartily hope that you and all your officers and men will strictly watch yourselves and guard against rashness and be devoted to the peaceful revival of our fatherland.”
Off Japan, the former Japanese Navy transport vessel Ukishima Maru, carrying 4,000 people, mostly Koreans who had been forced labourers in military facilities in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, being returned home, left Ominato port today.
The 4,730-ton ship exploded and capsized as it neared Maizuru port, around 5:20 p.m. today.
Among the 4,000 people on board, 524 Koreans and 25 Japanese were killed, according to the Japanese government announcement at the time.
It is assumed that the Ukishima Maru struck an American mine. (Gene Hanson)
KURILE ISLANDS: US Eleventh Air Force B-24s try to photograph the Soviet occupation but are impeded by clouds.USNPB4Y-2 Privateers of Patrol Bombing Squadron One Hundred Twenty (VPB-120) based on Attu and VPB-122 based on Shemya photograph Onekotan, Shasukotan and Harumukotan Islands.
CANADA: Tropicalisation refit of HMCS Stone Town cancelled at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
U.S.A.: The last M-24 tank built by the Cadillac Division of the General Motors Corporation rolls off the assembly line. Cadillac is now free to begin building automobiles for the first time since 1942.
Minesweeper USS Murrelet commissioned.
Submarine USS Sarda launched.
The motion picture “Pride of the Marines” is released today. Based on the book by Roger Butterfield, this war drama, directed by Delmar Daves, stars John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, Rosemary DeCamp and Mark Stevens. The film is based on the real life story of Marine Al Schmid who was blinded while fighting on Guadalcanal. The film is nominated for a writing award.
The top songs on the pop record charts are (1) “If I Loved You” by Perry Como, (2) “I Wish I Knew” by Dick Haymes, (3) “Till The End Of Time” by Perry Como and (4) “You Two Timed Me One Time Too Often” by Tex Ritter. “Till The End Of Time” is ranked Number 2 for the year 1945.
Maestro Arturo Toscanini, the conductor of the NBC Symphony Orchestra, agrees to return to Italy next February to conduct the opening performance at La Scala opera house.
In baseball, the Cleveland Indians’ ace Bob Feller returns from the Navy and attracts a home crowd of 46,477 in Cleveland Stadium, who watch him strike out 12 and yield only four hits in a 4–2 win over Detroit’s Hal Newhouser. Feller will get nine starts during the remainder of the year, and his five wins will include a one-hitter and two 4-hitters. With the war now over, fans are clamouring for entertainment and it is clear Feller is still baseball’s number one ticket seller.
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Augustów Roundup In Top-Secret NKVD Documents
August 24, 1945 Report from Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov to Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria:
Decrypt [Decipher] and deliver immediately
Via Cipher:
[Seals: “Central FSB Archive of the Russian Federation”, “Declassified”. Central FSB Archive of the Russian Federation]
I report that I have ordered the deputy head of the Main “Smersh” Directorate, Major General Gorgonov, and head of the Chief Counterintelligence Unit with the 3rd Byelarussian Front, Lt. General Zelenin, to personally inspect, in place, the arms, ammunition and explosive materials confiscated during the operation to liquidate gangs in the Augustow Forests, carried out by units of the Red Army.
Today, Comrades Gorgonov and Zelenin reported that during the operation, units of the 50th Army of the 3rd Byelarussian Front confiscated the following arms, ammunition and explosive materials.
Grenade launchers - 11 among them 52mm - 1 [one] 55mm - 4 and 120mm - all German made Machine guns - 31, among them heavy machine guns - 1 light [machine gun] German made - 28 and, light Russian made - 2 Automatic pistols - 31 among them German - 14 Russian - 17 Rifles - 89 and 1 [with] a sawed off [barrel] also German - 28 and 1 - [with]a sawed off [barrel] Polish - 17 and Russian - 44 Hand guns and revolvers - 4 including Belgian-made - 3 Russian - 1 Mines - 204 including German - 34 Russian 120mm - 110 and 80mm - 60 Projectiles - 76mm Russian type - 66 Grenades - 134 including German - 71 Russian - 63 Rifle bullets and [ammunition for] automatic weapons - 27,024, including German 7,279, and Russian 19,645 Ammunition for PTR [armor-piercing ] of Russian type - 250 TNT charges of German Type - 62 Explosive materials of Russian make - 78kg Bottles containing incendiary mixture (KS) - 50 German radio-transmitters - 1 Bickford-type rope of German make - 73 meters.
The aforementioned weapons, ammunition, and explosives materials were confiscated during the arrests of the bandits, as well as stores and hiding places discovered in the forests during searches of [various] localities.
During the investigations it was determined, that the bandits gathered Russian type weapons on battlefields.
To that effect, the arrested gang-leader named S.N Krupinski, nom de guerre “Grom”, born in 1906 in Augustow, and of Polish nationality, who was apprehended along with his 50-men gang, revealed during the subsequent interrogations, that members of his gang collected Russian-type weapons and ammunition in the Augustow Forests in the area(s) where the Red Army fought the Germans.
Aside from the German, Polish and Russian weapons and ammunition, no other foreign-made weapons, ammunition, or explosives were confiscated. During the combing operations carried out by the Red Army in the Augustow Forests, 52 bunkers were discovered and 15 concrete anti-artillery shelters, as well as 439 makeshift dugouts, and underground shelters; these, in the estimate of the command, were German, and were already built in 1939. Some of these structures were being used by the Home Army.
On orders from the military command, all bunkers, anti-artillery shelters, dugouts, and underground shelters, were blown up by our military units.
I am reporting in particular about the issue of the artillery. This issue was particularly thoroughly investigated by Comrades Gorgonow and Zelenin, who concluded that during the operations in the Augustow Forests, neither the units of the Red Army, nor “Smersh” confiscated any type of artillery pieces.
Based on the foregoing, we should emphasize that during the initial stages of the operation, the Military Command of the 50th Army had at its disposal unverified and preliminary information, suggesting that the gangs active in the Augustow Forests, had in fact at their disposal, artillery pieces; during the later stages these reports turned out to be inaccurate. At some point, the Military Command had reported about this to the General Staff of the 3rd Byelarussian Front.
Abakumov
August 24, 1945
Head of the Chief “Smersh” Counterintelligence Directorate Lt. General(Abakumov)
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Unsolved Communist Crimes: The Augustów Roundup in July, 1945 (Pol. “Obawa Augustowska w lipcu 1945.”)
“O earth, do not conceal our blood, so our cries never cease ...” Job 16:18
The Augustów roundup was one of the most bloody mass murders committed by the Soviets on Polish citizens, after the end of the II World War. Despite that fact however, neither school books, nor encyclopedias, even mention this tragic episode in the post-World-War II history of Poland. The whereabouts of those who perished during this roundup are unknown, as is unknown their place of burial.
In July, 1945 the Red Army units supported by the communist UB (Urzstwa - Polish secret police), and MO (pol. Milicja Obywatelska - The People’s Milicia) conducted a grand-scale pacification in the Puszcza Augustówska [eng. Augustów Primeval Forest], and in the surrounding area. The Soviet forces combed through the forests and villages, arresting all those suspected of collaboration with the Polish Underground.
During the course of the roundup, nearly 2,000 individuals were detained. Some of those returned home after being interrogated and tortured, while 600 were sent to an unknown location, never to be heard from again. This is their story.
At the outset of the II World War, the Suwaki and Augustów counties fell under control of two occupiers: the Soviets, who established hegemony over the entire county of Suwaki, along with a portion of the Augustów County, and the Nazis, who reigned over a greater portion of the Augustów County. Right from the outset of this dual occupation, the Polish population residing in this area, began to form underground organizations to resist the occupiers.
Many armed underground organizations, such as Temporary Council of Suwaki Region (Pol. Tymczasowa Rada Ziemi Suwalskiej), the Pilsudski’s Legion (Pol. Legion Pisudskiego), the Near-Niemen Legion (pol. Legion Nadniemenski), and National Revival (pol. Odrodzenie Narodowe) sprang into action, and ultimately united under the banner of ZWS, the Association of Armed Struggle (pol. Zwizek Walki Zbrojnej). The underground soldiers didn’t let the occupiers rest.
“During the time I was stationed in Augustów, we lost around 50 of our people […] the Poles were making it [the occupation] really difficult for us. It was real war.” – writes in his memoirs secretary of the Regional Committee of Belarus, which at that time (commonly known as the First Soviet Occupation), occupied this area.
After the Soviet-German war began, the infrastructure of the patriotic underground became unified under the standard of the Home Army, and was known in this area, as the Polish Insurrection Union (pol. Polski Zwizek Powstaczy). In the beginning of Spring, 1944, the Home Army had nearly 5 thousand sworn members.
During the operation “Tempest” (pol. “Burza”), in Spring, 1944, the Home Army units had to, in large part, reveal their identities, a fact which after the Germans are ejected from the North-Eastern part of Poland, and are replaced by the Soviets, will have tragic consequences. The Home Army soldiers were arrested, and either sent to the East, or forcibly conscripted into the communist Polish People’s Army (pol. Ludowe Wojsko Polskie). These repressions considerably undermined the strength of the underground infrastructure. Only in Spring, 1945, the soldiers who hid in the forests, began to reorganize themselves into new units, and to engage the new communist regime. As a result of these activities, in the Suwaki county, the democratic underground units destroyed seventeen, out of eighteen MO (Pol. abbr. People’s Militia) stations, and from among fourteen rural municipalities (pol. Gmina) created by the communists, only two functioned. Furthermore, twenty three death sentences against the communist collaborators, and dedicated “helpers” of the new “people’s government” were carried out. Equally active were units conducting activities in the Augustów county. The success of the Home Army aggravated the Polish communists, and their Soviet masters, particularly, since the Soviet Red Army, and the NKVD (Russ. The People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del, who took active part against the underground units, and the population at large, became more frequent targets of the democratic underground. After the capture of Berlin and the end of the World War II, a much larger number of personnel from the UB, NKVD, and the Red Army was dispatched to conduct activities against the democratic underground. These activities were conducted mainly by the Soviets, and at the “request” of the provincial, and county “governments”.
“The Roundup of Death”
The largest “cleanup” operation against the democratic armed underground, was conducted in July, 1945, and thus, became known as either the “July Roundup”, or as the “Augustów” Roundup, as it took place in and around Augustów area. The operation was conducted mainly by the Soviet forces, including the NKWD, Smersh (Soviet acronym: “SMERt’ SHpionam” - Eng. Death To the Spies) and the soldiers of the 3rd Belarusian Front. The functionaries of the UB, MO, and local informers played the role of the betrayer Judas, pointing out individuals who should be arrested, serving as guides, and as interpreters, during horrific interrogations that ensued. The communist forces which took part in the roundup, amounted to nearly fifteen thousand men. The methods, and circumstances, under which arrests took place varied. The Home Army soldiers, and individuals sympathetic to them who lived in the cities, were arrested either during evenings, or at night. The inhabitants of the villages on the other hand, were dragged out of their homes, snatched from country roads, or fields.
In the village of Jaziewo, for example, all villagers were called for a meeting, and all those who showed up were arrested. Many Home Army soldiers were arrested during firefights and skirmishes that took place during the roundup. Witold Zurawski, a Home Army Soldier from Jastrzebna, near Sztabin, reminisces:
“They encircled the entire village, and there were thousands of them – the Soviet henchmen marched, as if they were attacking in a line formation. They ordered us to exit our homes, so they could check our identity papers. After that they took all of us, men and some women, and they raced us to the barn, where we were held for two weeks. I had a feeling, that I am not going to make it, and when one day they took us out, I jumped into the crop field, and I was gone. The other villagers told me later, that after two weeks, the UB men wearing plain clothes arrived. They brought with them lists [with names] of people who were to be arrested. Those arrested were transported to Sztabin, and from there, they were taken to some unknown place. They vanished into thin air, [never to be seen again].”
Those detained were jailed in various places, and often subjected to horrible tortures. From among 1,900 to 2,000 arrested, around 600 people were selected from the list, which was prepared earlier by the communist collaborators. Among those selected, were women, and 15, or 16-years old boys. According to the information obtained from the witnesses, these individuals were placed on trucks and transported towards the Soviet boarder. From that moment on, their whereabouts are unknown. Today, one thing is certain – they were murdered on orders issued by the Soviets, and their remains are located somewhere on the territory of the former USSR. The search for the missing was undertaken by their families immediately after the roundup, but the trail ended at the selection camps, where they were held for a short time.
Ironically, after retirement, Szostak became a “folk artist” with “artistic interests” in such subject matters as “religion” and “patriotism”.
The villagers from the rural municipality called Giby, were first to ask about the fate of the missing, as during 1945, 109 individuals were taken away, and among those, 90 were detained during the roundup. In November, 1945, the Giby municipality sent a delegation to Warsaw in order to locate their missing neighbors, friends, and family members. Not surprisingly , they were not given any information. During the Stalinist times, any and all information about the roundup was a taboo, and bringing this subject up, could end tragically for those who dared to ask. During the following years, the subject of the “July Roundup”, was mentioned only during the so called period of Khrushchev’s Thaw, that trickled into Poland.
Only in 1987, the matter of those missing received serious attention, when Stefan Myszczynski, who lost three brothers and his step-father during the roundup, discovered graves near the road connecting Rigol and Giby. Initially, it was suspected that they contained remains of those missing from July 1945. After their examination however, it was revealed that they contained remains of German soldiers who died during the war. Impulsively, the public opinion, began to be more interested in the fate of the victims of the July Roundup, and on August 2, 1987, Obywatelski Komitet Poszukiwan Mieszkancow Suwalszczyzny Zaginionych w Lipcu 1945 [eng. The Citizen’s Committee To Locate Missing Inhabitants of the Suwaki Area Who Perished in July 1945”], was formed.
Even though, the local government forbid the Committee to conduct its activity, they refused. Its founding members, Piotr Bajer, Mirosaw Basiewicz, Stanisaw Kowalczyk (from Suwaki), along with Alicja Maciejewska, Maria Chwalibog, and Jan Krzywosz (from Warsaw), with dedication gathered information about those perished. In 1992, all information they were able to obtain was delivered to the Public Attorney’s Office in Suwaki. However, the Public Attorney’s Office dismissed the case because of lack of the evidence, and its inability to probe through the classified post-soviet-era archives.
In 2001, case files reached the Institute of National Remembrance (pol. abbr. IPN). The investigation into the Augustów murders is presently conducted by the Institute of National Remembrance — Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation. Despite the fact that some progress was made, however, neither the fate of those presumed dead, nor the identities of the perpetrators, or the location of graves, have been discovered. The resources available to the IPN prosecutor to solve this case within Poland itself, have been exhausted.
Number of requests sent to the present government of Russia, to help the investigators by providing information about operations of their units during the “July Roundup”, remain unanswered! Today, many families in Giby, and other communities affected by the murderous net of the 1945 roundup, still await the truth about the fate of their husbands, sisters, and brothers … For those perished still lament with Job, “O earth, do not conceal our blood, so our cries never cease ...”
Written by: Adam Bialous
More about the Augustów Roundup here ...
http://www.doomedsoldiers.com/not-only-katyn-before-they-came.html
The Names of the Augustów Missing:
ATENY
Michalowski Feliks
Augustów
Borucki Franciszek
Chelminski Henryk
Chelminski Jan
Cichor Mieczyslaw
Ciechanowicz Aleksander
Dyczewski Franciszek
Dyczewski Henryk
Filar Antoni
Filipowicz Antoni
Gasiorowski Jerzy
Janik Lucjan
Jatkowski Mieczyslaw
Jedlinski Wladyslaw
Klewiado Walenty
Kolonicz Jerzy Stefan
Kuzniecow Mikolaj
Kuzniecow Teodor
Lipski Mieczyslaw
Niedzwiecki Stanisaw
Olechowicz Stanisaw
Orzechowski Kazimierz
Puzynski Henryk
Rudzewicz Edward
Rzepecki Jan
Sienkiewicz Boleslaw
Soltys Leonard
Stelmasik Tadeusz
Szygiel Henryk
Wisniewski Jan
Wisniewski Jan, son of Stanisaw Wisniewski
Wisniewski Stanisaw
Wolasewicz Michal
Zylinski Jan
BALINKA
Blazewicz Wladyslaw
Chodakiewicz Jozef
Gasiorowski Antoni
Gasiorowski Edward
Kakiel Jozef
Kornilowicz Zygmunt
Kukowski Franciszek
Markowski Jozef
Siedlecki Antoni
Siedlecki Waclaw
Siedlecki Wladyslaw
Zalewski Szymon
BERZALOWCE
Markiewicz Antoni
Markiewicz Jan
Radzewicz Antoni
BERZNIKI
Tujakowski Marian
BIALA WODA
Gliniecki Aleksander
Wysocka Aniela
Wysocka Kazimiera
Wysocki Ludwik
BIALOGORY
Adaszko Zygmunt
Cieslikowski Stanisaw
Gutowska Bronislawa
Marcinkiewicz Stanisaw
Mieczkowski Antoni
Mieczkowski Wincenty
Milewski Stanisaw
BIALOWIERSNIE
Konopko Franciszek
Konopko Stanisaw
Moroz Jozef (father)
Moroz Jozef (son)
Paszkiewicz Antoni
Paszkiewicz Franciszek
Plewinski
Rybaczynski Franciszek
Renkiewicz Feliks
Rewinski
Swiecicki Domink
Swiecicki Szymon
Swiecicki Wincenty
BOSSE
Andrulewicz Franciszek
Andrulewicz Janina
BRZOZOWO
Sutula Jozef
BUDOWIEC, the ZELWY colony
Miszkiel Waclaw
Radziewicz Boleslaw
CHOMASZEWO
Lesniewski Fabian
Mysliwski Waclaw
Mysliwski Zygmunt
CISOW
Dytkowski Zygmunt
CZARNIEWO
Butkiewicz Ludwik
Pawelko Zofia
Pycz Wladyslaw
Szumska Krystyna
CZARNY BROD
Krajewski Czeslaw
Okuniewski Jozef
CZARNY LAS
Haraburda Edward
DALNY LAS
Juszkiewicz Aleksander
Juszkiewicz Jozef
Makarewicz Jan
Puczylowski Franciszek
DANILOWCE
Biziewski Antoni
Czekajlo Wiktoria
Kaminski Ludwik
Laskowski Bronislaw
Laskowski Stanisaw
Michalski Stanisaw
Michalski Wincenty
Przekopski Antoni
Przekopski Franciszek
Wegrzynowicz Marian
DANOWSKIE
Lipnicki Jozef
Pachucki Antoni
Pachucki Piotr
DABROWA BIALOSTOCKA
Pryzmont Kazimierz
DEGUCIE
Jungiewicz Czeslaw
DLUGIE
Tarasewicz Edward
Tarasewicz Stanisaw
DWORCZYSKO
Myszczynski Bronislaw
Myszczynski Walerian
Myszczynski Witold
Wolos Wladyslaw
FIEDOROWIZNA
Orlowski Antoni
Orlowski Mieczyslaw, son of Antoni
Orlowski Mieczyslaw
FILIPOW
Grabowski Jozef
Jakubowski Feliks
Kaminski Franciszek
Rutkowski Boleslaw
Rutkowski Stanisaw
Szypulski Jan
GAWINIANCE
Okulanis Witold
GIBY
Bednarski Leon
Bozymski Antoni
Janczewski Franciszek
Krejczman Czeslaw
Krejczman Stanisaw
Kozlowski Jan
Kulpan Jozef
Kucharzewska Zyta
Moroz Jozef
Niemkiewicz Stanisaw
Romatowski Aleksander
Szarejko Stanisaw
Zubowicz Stanisaw
GORCZYCA
Jakubowski Wladyslaw
Lebski Franciszek
Sobolewski Stanisaw
Sobolewski Wladyslaw
Zukowski Wladyslaw
GREMZDY POLSKIE
Podchajski Stefan
GRUDZIEWSZCZYZNA
Lejmel Jozef
GRUSZKI
Baranowski Wladyslaw
Kubryn Albin
Kurylo Jan
Makar Antoni
Mieczkowski Antoni
Mieczkowski Jan
Mieczkowski Jozef
Mieczkowski Witold
Mieczkowski Zygmunt
Sluzynski Jozef
Wasilczyk Piotr
Wasilczyk Zygmunt
Wysocki Stanisaw
HAMULKA
Kulak Stanisaw, son of Maciej Kulak
Kulak Stanisaw, son of Klemens Kulak
Kulak Waclaw
Szosta Wladyslaw
IWANOWKA
Koncewicz Stanisaw
Miszkiel Eugeniusz
Miszkiel Mieczyslaw
Sitkowska Jadwiga
Sitkowski Eugeniusz
Sitkowski Stanisaw
JAMINY
Pietko Bronislaw
JANOWKA
Bozewicz Kazimierz
Kaminski Jozef
Truszkowski Stanisaw
JESIONOWO near KRASNY BOR
Chlebanowski Stanisaw
Daraszkiewicz Adolf
Gramacki Tadeusz
Karp Edward
Krzysztofik Jan
Szczytko Czeslaw
Szczytko Eugeniusz
JASTRZEBNA I
Gramacki Czeslaw
JASTRZEBNA II
Makarewicz Stanisaw
Malinowski Stanisaw
JAZIEWO
Andruszkiewicz Mieczyslaw
Bielawski Jan
Dziadziak Stanisaw
Guziejko Antoni
Haraburda Eugeniusz
Janik Jan
Karp Leon
Kozakiewicz Czeslaw
Kugiel Adam
Kunda Edward
Kulakowski Kazimierz
Matyskiela Stanisaw
Suchwalko Ludwik
Szmygiel Franciszek
Swierzbinski Klemens
Usnarski Jan
JURYSDYKA
Ruksc Izydor
KAMIENNA NOWA
Gows Jan
Krzywosz Jan
Krzywosz Stanisaw
Sobolewski Waclaw
Stroczkowski Pawel
Ugolik Bronislaw
Ugolik Jan
Ugolik Wincenty
Wolczek Antoni
KAMIEN near SZTABIN
Kanty Antoni
Murawski Wladyslaw
Ostapowicz Ildefons
Rutkowski Bernard
Szyperski Tadeusz
KANALOW A-SOSNOWEK
Jarzebowicz Mieczyslaw
KAROLIN
Bobrukiewicz Jan
Bobrukiewicz Jozef
Bobrukiewicz Stefan
Dylnicki Piotr
Syperowicz Stanisaw
Swiecicki Stanisaw
Terlecki Bronislaw Boleslaw
KOLNICA
Michniewicz Witold
KOMASZOWKA near KOLNO
Miezio Franciszek
Miezio Jozef
KOMASZOWKA near KRASNY BOR
Zywna Bernard
KAROLINY
Skrocki Bronislaw
Skrocki Juliusz
KOPALNICA
Czokajlo Antoni
Danowski Jozef
Fiecko Feliks
Fiodorowicz Waclaw
Holubowicz Stanisaw
Korenkiewicz Lucjan
KOPIEC
Dobrowolski Zygmunt
Duchinski Jan
Jaglowski Piotr
Kaminski Antoni
Malkowski Lucjan
Roszkowski Izydor
Roszkowski Stanisaw
Rutkowski Stanisaw
Siarkowski Witold
Siwicki Zygmunt
Szyszkiewicz Stanisaw
Zukowski Konstanty
KRASNE
Barszczewski Waclaw
Krysiuk Czeslaw
Krysiuk Remigiusz
Krysiuk Stanisaw
Sawicki Bronislaw
Sawicki Wladyslaw
KRASNOBORKI
Dyjak Jozefa
Karp Stanisaw
Kondarcki Kazimierz
Mroziewski Witold
Surgont Stanisaw
Szymkuc Antoni
Szyper Kazimierz
Wasilewski Wladyslaw
Zdunko Jan
KRASNOPOL
Biziewski Jozef
Lisiewicz Czeslaw
Luto Aleksander
Malinowski Waclaw
Nowalski Stanisaw
KRASNYBOR
Bucko Konstanty
Haraburda Jozef
Hornowski Karol
Karp Stanisaw
Krzywicki Jan
Kulik Jozef
Kuzmicki Leon
Szymanski Czeslaw
Szyper Jozef
Zysko Antoni
KREJWINCE
Milewski Jan
KRUSZNIK
Martynko Edward
Statkiewicz Kazimierz
KRYLATKA
Kupinski Michal
LASANKA
Maslowski Franciszek
LEBIEDZIN
Gramacki Stanisaw
Kuzmicki Stanisaw
LESZCZEWEK
Koronkiewicz Lucjan
Warakomski Aleksander
MACHARCE
Myszczynski Edward
MALYSZOWKA
Kalisz Waclaw
Kulak Jozef
Siedzik Kazimierz
Wnukowski Albin
Wnukowski Dominik
MIKASZOWKA
Bielenica Piotr (from Kalety in USSR)
Rozanski Romuald
Sienkiewicz Remigiusz
MOGILNICE
Andraka Marian
Rzepka Marian
Szmygiel Kazimierz
Szumski Ignacy
Szumski Zygmunt
Waszkiewicz Ildefons
MOTULKA
Kondracki Zygmunt
NOWA WIES
Karpienia Stanisaw
Olszewski Jozef
Toczko Aleksander
NOWINKA
Lazarska Danuta
Lazarska Eugenia
Lazarska Wladyslawa
Sotaolewski Piotr
Warakomski Franciszek
Zareba Tadeusz
Zielinski Tadeusz
Zukowski Jan
NOWY LIPSK
Chomiczewski Stanisaw
Doroszko Zofia
Lozowska Anna
Matuszewski Boleslaw
OKOLEK
Miszkiel Franciszek
ORZECHOWO
Myszczynski Witold
OSINSKIE BUDY
Brozio Jan
OSOWY GRAD
Giedrojc Dominik
Wasilewski Antoni
Wasilewski Boleslaw
Wasilewski Czeslaw
Wasilewski Stanisaw
OSTROWIE BIEBRZANSKIE
Kopanko Ignacy
Wnukowska Helena
PLASKA
Puczylowski Jozef
POCKUNY
Czeszkiewicz Jozef
POMORZE
Bielecki Aleksander
Chrulski Bronislaw
PONIZIE
Bujnowski Kazimierz
Januszko Bronislaw
Margiewicz Pawel
Nowik Aleksander
Prawdzik Jadwiga
Wojcik Boleslaw
Wyszynski Jan
Wyszynski Lucjan
POSEJANKA
Andrulewicz Witold
POSEJNELE
Luto Jozef
Miszkiel Edward
Miszkiel Janina
Wojtanis Mieczyslaw
PRUSKA WIELKA
Milanowski Konstanty
PRZEWIEZ
Gruszewski Wiktor
RUDAWKA - KURDYNKI - KIELMINY
Krupinski Szymon
Luckiewicz Feliks
Makowski Konstanty (father)
Makowski Konstanty (son)
Przekopowski Jozef
Specjall Karol
RYGOL
Fabisiak (the forester)
Kochanowski Antoni
Kornacki Jan
Obuchowski Edward
Obuchowski Jan
Turowski Jozef
SAJENEK
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Bondzio Jan
Fiecko Feliks
Fiecko Stefan
Fiecko Walerian
Halicki Aleksander
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Nazarowski Wladyslaw
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Chilinski Stefan
Jaworowski Zygmunt
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Tomkiewicz Bronislaw
STRZELCOWIZNA
Baranowski Franciszek
Golkowski Stefan
Jejer Henryk
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SUCHA RZECZKA
Ciemny Leon
Frackiewicz Boleslaw
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Rowinski Czeslaw
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Zabicki Stanisaw
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Radzewicz Jozef
ZYWA WODA
Dabrowski Franciszek
Preparations For The War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 08/24/1945
https://archive.org/details/ADC-5181b
“On August 24, under the pressure of the revolutionary masses, the emperor Bao Dai was forced to renounce the throne.”
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/August+Revolution+of+1945+in+Vietnam
Warning! The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated [might?] or ideologically biased. [ya think?]
August Revolution of 1945 in Vietnam
“A national people’s democratic revolution that overthrew the hegemony of the imperialists in Vietnam and established a popular democratic rule.”
The August revolution resulted from the development of a national liberation movement in Vietnam against the French colonialists who had subjugated the country in the 1850’s through the 1880’s and against the Japanese invaders who had occupied it in 1940.
On May 19, 1941, in accordance with the resolution of the eighth plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Indochina (the GPI; from 1951, the Workers’ Party of Vietnam, WPV), a united national liberation front was created, the Vietminh (the League for the Independence of Vietnam), which rallied all the patriotic forces of the country. Through the Vietminh, the CPI conducted extensive propaganda in 1941–44 and began creating bases and armed detachments. On Dec. 22, 1944, the first detachments of the Vietnamese Liberation Army (now called the People’s Army of Vietnam) began to form in Cao Bang Province.
After the coup of Mar. 9, 1945, in which the Japanese imperialists liquidated the French administration, the Vietminh mounted a broad guerrilla war against the Japanese invaders. In April 1945 a Vietminh military-revolutionary conference was held which prepared a plan for the general uprising. On June 4 a liberated area whose center was in the village of Tan Trao in Tuyen Quang Province was formed on the territory of Northern Vietnamese provinces. The CPI held a national conference on Aug. 13–15, 1945, and adopted a resolution on the initiation of a general uprising in Vietnam, the goal of which would be complete independence and the establishment of a popular-based rule. A committee of insurrection was created to lead the uprising. On August 16 a Vietnamese national congress of the Vietminh was held in Tan Trao; it approved the decision on the commencement of a general uprising, chose the National Committee for the Liberation of Vietnam, headed by Ho Chi Minh, and charged this committee with the functions of a provisional government. In response to the summons of the CPI, the people rose up in insurrection throughout the country during August 16–26. On August 19 armed masses seized Hanoi; on August 20 the People’s Revolutionary Committee of North Vietnam was created in the capital. Everywhere the rebellious people took power into their own hands. On August 24, under the pressure of the revolutionary masses, the emperor Bao Dai was forced to renounce the throne. On Sept. 2, 1945, at a meeting of 500,000 people on Ba Dinh Square in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, in the name of the provisional government, solemnly proclaimed Vietnam’s declaration of independence and the formation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV).
The August revolution came about under the hegemony of the working class allied with the peasantry, the national bourgeoisie, and other patriotic forces rallying under the leadership of the CPI in the unified national liberation front, the Vietminh. It took place amid the destruction of German fascism in Europe by the Soviet Union and the victorious war of the Soviet Union against Japan, which made it easier for the Vietnamese people to achieve victory in their struggle against the French colonialists and Japanese aggressors. The August revolution cleared the way for broad social and economic transformations in Vietnam and greatly influenced the development of the national liberation movement in Southeast Asia, first and foremost in Laos and Cambodia.
REFERENCES
Razob’em okovy: Dokumenty Avgustovskoi revoliutsii 1945 g. vo V’etname. Moscow, 1960. (Translated from French.)
Ho Chi Minh. Izbr. stat’i i rechi. Moscow, 1959. (Translated from Vietnamese and French.)
Tridtsat’ let bor’by partii i rabochego klassa V‘etnama. Hanoi 1961.
III s”ezd Partii trudiashchikhsia V’etnama. Moscow, 1961. Pages 11–13. (Translated from Vietnamese.)
V. A. ZELENTSOV
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979).
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=12371
August 24, 1945
CITATION FOR THE LEGION OF MERIT
DEGREE OF CHIEF COMMANDER
GENERAL CHARLES DE GAULLE, President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic and Commander-in-Chief of France’s armed forces, performed distinguished services by maintaining his nation’s effort in the struggle against the common enemy in Europe. From the chaos which followed the unleashing of the aggressor states’ military power he emerged to keep bright the flame of liberty among his countrymen, to rally them in the cause of freedom, to merge their revived strength with the growing might of the United Nations. In victory he returned to his native soil, there to rebuild on firm principles a nation rededicated to liberty, equality and fraternity.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=12373
CITATION FOR THE LEGION OF
MERIT DEGREE OF COMMANDER
GEORGES BIDAULT, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, was called to the colors in the autumn of 1939 and devotedly served his country as a sergeant of infantry until the spring of 1940 when he was taken prisoner by the Germans. In July 1941, after more than a year of captivity, he regained his freedom, whereupon without regard for his own safety or well-being he immediately became extremely active in French underground affairs. Displaying at all times zealous determination to drive the invader from France, he played a major part in organizing the French Resistance Movement for effective cooperation with the Allied armies, and became President of the National Council of Resistance, which post he occupied on the Day of Liberation. Continuing as Minister of Foreign Affairs to cooperate with the United Nations in the pursuit of their ideals, M. Bidault fostered a spirit of friendship and harmony between his republic and that of the United States.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth348964/m1/1/
Fielder, Park B. [Letter from Corporal Park B. Fielder to his family, August 24, 1945], Letter, August 24, 1945; (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth348964/ : accessed August 25, 2015), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Arlington Historical Society's Fielder House Museum, Arlington, Texas.
A marvelous collection of more than one hundred photos from throughout the war in the Pacific:
http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/The_Pacific.html