Dęblin is a town, population 19,000, on the Wieprz River, in Lublin Voivodship, Poland. Wieprz is a river in central-eastern Poland, a tributary of the Vistula river, with a length of 303 kilometres (9th longest) and the basin area of 10,415 sq. ... Lublin voivodship since 1999 Lublin Voivodship (in Polish województwo lubelskie) is an administrative and local government region or voivodship in the eastern part of Poland. ...
In 1920, the Dęblin area was the starting point for a Polish offensive that decided the fate of the Battle of Warsaw and the entire Polish-Soviet War. In 1925 a famous Polish Air Force academy was established here. 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... Warsaw in Poland has been the site of several battles in history. ... Polish-Bolshevik War Conflict Polish-Bolshevik War Date 1919– 1921 Place Central and Eastern Europe Result Polish victory The Polish-Soviet War was the war (February 1919 – March 1921) that determined the borders between the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic and Second Polish Republic. ... Events January-May January 3 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy. ...
Deblin graduates appear to have taken most of their social training to heart-even if some did cut corners on the code's more puritanical aspects.
Prominent among the hell-raisers at Deblin in the late 1930s were Zumbach, Feric, and Witold Lokuciewski, a former cavalry oYcer with the dark, boyish good looks of a movie star and the raffish attitude of a born gambler.
They not only survived their Deblin training-which was as grueling and difficult as any flight training on earth-they excelled at it.