5. General Tadeusz Komorowski was a leading voice of militaristic fleet faction, an official and formal political faction within the Poland. His contribution to Warsaw Uprising, Operation Tempest and World War II through his leadership has a prideful and obedient personality that allowed him to become an important character in Poland as well as Europe. In initial stage of his military career, he helped to organise the Polish underground in the Krakow area. During the fighting with the Bolsheviks in 1920, he was wounded at the Battle of Komarov, which routed Mounted Army Budionny. For participation in the battles with the Red Army, he was awarded the Order of Military Virtue and three times the Cross of Valor. In the following years he was deputy commander of 9 Lancers in Zhovkva. He held the position of commander of the Cavalry NCO Vocational School in Yavoriv from year 1926 to 1928. A year before the outbreak of World War II Tadeusz Komorowski - already in the rank of colonel, on which he was promoted in 1933.
6. He gained the vast experience in military environments like World War I, Polish- Bolshevik and Polish Defensive War. He…show more content… The reasons for the Warsaw uprising in were dual. The Wehrmacht was in relative disorder, still retreating before the Russian summer offensive of that year and therefore relatively vulnerable. The primary reason, however, was political. After the Russian invasion of Eastern Poland, 17 September 1939, hundreds of thousands of Poles, military and civilian, were arrested by the Russians and sent to concentration camps. In 1940, approximately 15,000 Polish reserve officers were executed at Katyn and other sites. Russian atrocities towards the Poles easily equalled those of the Nazis. It was therefore vitally important that the capital of Poland be liberated by Poles loyal to Poland and the Government in Exile, rather than the Communists. It was hoped that the uprising would enable the Red Army to advance further west towards
