Did Polish Cavalry charge at Tanks in WWII?

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During the invasion of Poland in 1939, it is said that Polish cavalry units charged at the German tanks with sabres and lances, in a desperate and foolhardy attempt to take on the metal beasts.

This is in fact a myth.


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