Ironically, this allowed Colonel Szacki to recruit from the Poles in the DP camp, and by November 1945, the brigade numbered some 4,000 personnel. On August 6, 1945, the brigade was disarmed and moved to a displaced persons camp in Coburg. The British War Office declined to accept the brigade as a reinforcement unit for Polish forces under their command and communist officials in Poland, the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia raised accusations that the brigade had collaborated with the Nazis and should be turned over to communist authorities for trial. 2nd Infantry Division in the assault that liberated PilzeЕ€ from Wehrmacht occupation forces and restored it to Czechoslovakia.ДЇollowing the end of the war in Europe, the presence of the brigade in Czechoslovakia became a contentious political issue for the U.S. On the following day, the brigade fought alongside troops of the U.S. quote]Even though the planned uprising in PlzeЕ€ never materialized (due to other reasons), with the onset of May, the brigade renewed the fight against the Germans and on May 5 liberated the concentration camp at HolГЅЕЎov, which led the United States to recognize it as an Allied military unit. Surprisingly the only detailed information I could find was in German. The Americans also used other nationalities. The core was 'the Holy Cross Mountains Brigade (Polish: Brygada ЕљwiД™tokrzyska), a tactical unit of the Polish underground NSZ organization, which did not obey orders to merge with the Home Army in 1944 and as a result was part of the NSZ-ZJ faction.' It was supplement by Polish Army POW and Polish Displaced Persons recruits.

Uniquely a Polish Formation outside the Polish Army was part of the American Army, They served as Military Police. In World War II, the vast majority of the Polish Army fought in association with France, the United Kingdom and Canada.

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