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| Picture No | 10582981 |
| Date | 1939 |
| Description | Russian armoured car rattles through Polish town, 1939 |
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The advance of the Russian Army into Poland. Scene in Rakov, a small Polish town of typical wooden houses. As the countryside was practically unoccupied by Polish forces these armoured columns advanced at a pace of forty miles a day. The Russian and German armies met at Brest-Litovsk in central Poland at this time to discuss the division of invaded Poland.
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| Source | Unattributed photograph in the Sphere, 7 October 1939 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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