| Title: Name: | 83. motorized anti-aircraft artillery battery of the type "B" | 83rd Motorized Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battery of the Type "B" |
| Original title: Original Name: | 83 Bateria Motorowa Artylerii Przeciwlotniczej type "B" 1) | |
| Date of creation: Raised/Formed: | 24.08.1939 | |
| Predecessor: Predecessor: | – | - |
| Date of termination: Disbanded: | 20.09.1939 2) | |
| Follower: Successor: | – | - |
| Parent headquarters: Higher Command: | 24.08.1939-07.09.1939 Vilenská riding brigade 07(09?).09.1939-14.09.1939 ??? 3) 14.09.1939-DD.09.1939 the High command of the air force and air-defense 4) DD.09.1939-17.09.1939 the Headquarters of the defense Lutsk 4) 17.09.1939-20.09.1939 ??? | 24.08.1939-07.09.1939 Wileńska Cavalry Brigade 07(09?).09.1939-14.09.1939 ??? 14.09.1939-DD.09.1939 Supreme Aviation and Anti Aircraft Headquarters DD.09.1939-17.09.1939 Łuck Defence Command 17.09.1939-20.09.1939 ??? |
| Dislocation: Deployed: | 24.08.1939-25.08.1939 Vilno/? 25.08.1939-29.08.1939 Vilno/Porubanek 29.08.1939-01.09.1939 Vilno 02.09.1939-03.09.1939 Proszenie/space 04.09.1939-05.09.1939 Lubień/space polesie 05.09.1939-DD.09.1939 area of polesie Lubień-space Sulejów-Opoczno-Przysucha-Radom/move DD.09.1939-14.09.1939 Radom-Puławy-Lublin-in chełm Lubelski/move 14.?).09.1-39.DD.09.1 39 in chełm Lubelski DD.09.1939-Luck/space 17.09.1939-20.09.1939 Luck-Brzeżany DD.MM.YYYY-DD.MM.YYYY | |
| Commander: Commander: | 24.08.1939-DD.09.1939 Szperka, Henryk (podporucznik artylerii) 5) | |
| Subordinate units: Subordinated Units: | 24.08.1939-20.09.1939 II. firing squad 83. motorized anti-aircraft artillery batteries of the type "B" 7) 24.08.1939-20.09.1939 Economic platoon 83. motorized anti-aircraft artillery batteries of the type "B" the 8) 14.09.1939-20(?).09.1939 polostálá anti-aircraft artillery platoon of the air force "Radom"(?) 9) 14.09.1939-20(?).09.1939 6. motorized anti-aircraft artillery batteries of the type And 10) 11) | 24.08.1939-DD.09.1939 2nd Firing Platoon of the 83rd Motorized Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battery of the Type "B" 24.08.1939-DD.09.1939 Auxilliary Platoon of the 83rd Motorized Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battery of the Type "B" 14.09.1939-20(?).09.1939 "Radom"(?) Semi-stationary Anti-Aircraft Artillery Platoon of the Air Force 14.09.1939-20(?).09.1939 6th Motorized Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battery Type "And" |
| Note: Note: | 1) According to the mobilization of the tables her name sounded Motorized anti-aircraft artillery battery of the type "B" no. 83 (bateria motorowa artylerii przeciwlotniczej type "B" nr 83). In Polish historiography it is, however, placed as here. 2) In the night 19./20.09.1939 was part of the marching column (5 guns, 1 machine gun, part for motor vehicles, and crews) to cut off soviet tanks from the rest of the battery and fell into captivity. The remnants of the battery (3 officers, around 80 members of the team, 1 gun, 3 machine guns, 26 vehicles) exceeded the Vyškovským pass the border with Hungary and were interned. Heavy weapons and vehicles were handed over to the Hungarians in the Mukacheve. 3) According to the Szperki was the last order from brigade received 09.09.1939 in the village of Przysucha. Since then the battery has lost connection with the brigade, and in the period 10.09.1939-14.09.1939 carry out the antiaircraft defense of the cities of Radom, Puławy, Lublin, in chełm Lubelski. Through the day, she was in firing positions and movements were conducted at night. According to Truszkowského it already 07.09.1939 acquiesced to the defense of the city of Radom officer of the staff Southern grouping of Army "Prusy". Przysucha and Radom were occupied 1. light divisions I 08.09.1939. 4) 14.09.1939 the battery commander reported to the commander of the air force and air defence, brigadier general Józef Zająca and from him received orders to move to Lutsk. 17.09.1939 received battery commander the order to move towards Hungary. 5) Of Hungary in December 1939 he got to France, where he was in the Polish exile army, assigned as the commander of the anti-aircraft platoon 4. regiment of infantry riflemen (4 Pułk Strzelców Pieszych) 2. division of infantry shooters. In June 1940 he escaped with most of the division to Switzerland, where he was the end of the war interned in an internment camp Neuchatel. After the war he remained in emigration. 6) platoon Commander was second lieutenant of the artillery in reserve Tadeusz Borkowski. When moving around 13.09.1939 was irreparably damaged 1 cannon battery. It is not known which of the platoon. 7) the Commander of the platoon was a corporal aspirant artillery in reserve Witold Ziemacki. When moving around 13.09.1939 was irreparably damaged 1 cannon battery. It is not known which of the platoon. 8) platoon Commander is not listed. 9) Two-bodied 40 mm cannons with a full valet, consisting of the troops of the air force, but without means of transport, were taken from one of the armoured squadrons (probably Armored squadron # 33.), which is in the meantime transported by its own means. It was a polostálou squad of the air force (probably from Radom) armed with cannon wz. 38, which stood in the firing position, without the possibility of movement, and you include this in your column to the receding vane. The commander of the platoon was sergeant of the air force of the unknown names. 10) In the battery were included the remnants of the 6. battery type And (3 cannon wz. 36 with context, and vehicles). The commander of the remnants of the battery was lieutenant of artillery in reserve Juliusz Grodzicki. 11) a Battery was from 14.09.1939 four 40 mm aa guns Bofors wz. 36, the two wz. 38 and around 140 people. | |
| Source: Sources: | Miksztowicz, Bohdan: Relacja battery motorowej artylerii przeciwlotniczej 40 mm nr 83, in: Polska obrona przeciwlotnicza 1939. Cz. 4, Relacje, centrally located Archiwum Wojskowe im. mjr. Bolesław Waligóry, Tetragon, Warszawa 2013. str. 27-30. Szperka, Henryk: Relacja, in: Polska obrona przeciwlotnicza 1939. Cz. 4, Relacje, centrally located Archiwum Wojskowe im. mjr. Bolesław Waligóry, Tetragon, Warszawa 2013. str. 25-27. Truszkowski, Stanislaw: Działania artylerii przeciwlotniczej w wojnie 1939 R, Wojskowy Przegląd Historyczny nr 2/1978 str. 212-236 Wróblewski, Jan: The "Prusy" 1939, WIH, MON, Warszawa 1986 | |