Adolf Pilch

Who was Adolf Pilch?

Adolf Pilch was a Polish resistance fighter. He became part of the Polish special forces trained in the United Kingdom, and was parachuted into occupied Poland on February 17, 1943. There, as a member of the Armia Krajowa Polish resistance, he organized a cavalry partisan unit in the Nowogródek area, and broke through to the Kampinos forest near Warsaw, taking control of this area. At its height of operations his unit consisted of up to 1000 men. Between June 3, 1943 and January 17, 1945, his partisans fought in 235 battles.