Dimitri’s Reviews > Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939 > Status Update

BELGIAN FACTOID, part 2: "Negotiations dragged on for 5 years, until it became apparent that FN could not fullfill its obligations, which delayed the start of Polish domestic machine-gun manufacture until 1930. A licence was eventually obtained and the Polish-made version entered service in 1930 as the Rhm wz. 28 but production of the Browning heavy machine gun was begun in 1931 without a licence."

BELGIAN FACTOID, part 1: "Poland was interested in acquiring the rights to produce both the Browning Automatic Rifle & Browning 1917 heavy machine gun, converted to use the 7.92 mm round. Under false pretenses, the Belgian company Fabrique Nationale (FN) which was making both weapons itself, offered to sell the licence for the BAR to Poland. In fact, FN did not have the right to sell the licence to other countries."

"in fact the Polish airforce lost only 7 percent of its operational aircraft on the first day of the war and remained actively in the fight for a total of 17 days until the Soviet invasion"

Martin Gilbert, John Keegan, Gerhard Weinberg and Anthony Beevor kept copying a myth...
Hm. What does Norman Davies have to say?