"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
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Polish insurgent fighter Lt. Stanislaw Jankowski (1911/2002) and his men moments before W-hour (1700 hours) which marked the start of the Warsaw Uprising on Aug 1, 1944.
Jankowski (code name: "Agaton") was an SOE agent and Polish resistance fighter during the war, and an architect thereafter, who played a prominent role in the post-war reconstruction of Warsaw.
Polish Sherman III named 'Merkury' which fell into a ravine while reversing to avoid a German counterattack in Italy, 25 May 1944.
