| Title: Name: | 85. motorized anti-aircraft artillery battery B type | 85th Motorized Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battery of the Type B |
| Original title: Original Name: | 85 Bateria Motorowa Artylerii Przeciwlotniczej type B 1) | |
| Date of creation: Raised/Formed: | 24.08.1939 | |
| Predecessor: Predecessor: | – | - |
| Date of termination: Disbanded: | 09.09.1939 2) | |
| Follower: Successor: | – | - |
| Parent headquarters: Higher Command: | 24.08.1939-04.09.1939 in fact the riding brigade 05.09.1939-07.09.1939 Group Glabisz 08.09.1939-09.09.1939 12. infantry division | 24.08.1939-06.09.1939 Krakowska Cavalry Brigade 05.09.1939-07.09.1939 Glabisz Group 08.09.1939-09.09.1939 12th Infantry Division |
| Dislocation: Deployed: | 24.08.1939-DD.08.1939 Krakow (Kraków), ? DD.08.1939-DD.08.1939 Krakow (Kraków)-???-Koziegłowy, move DD.08.1939-02.09.1939 Koziegłowy, ? 02.09.1939-03.09.1939 Koziegłowy-???-Nagłowice-Jędrzejów, move 04.09.1939-05.09.1939 Jędrzejów-Brzegi-???, move 05.09.1939-06.09.1939 ???-Kielce-Dąbrowa-northwest Barcza (Występa?), move 06.09.1939-06.09.1939 space northwest Barcza (Występa?), fight 06.09.1939-07.09.1939 space northwest Barcza (Występa?)-Łączna-Suchedniów-space Skarżysko-Kamienna, night shift 07.09.1939-08.09.1939 space Skarżysko-Kamienna-Skarżysko Kościelne-Mirzec-Pastwiska, night shift 08.09.1939-09.09.1939 ?/? | |
| Commander: Commander: | 24.08.1939-09.09.1939 Skowroński, Stanisław Antoni (podporucznik artylerii) 4) | |
| Subordinate units: Subordinated Units: | 24.08.1939-09.09.1939 II. firing squad 6) 24.08.1939-09.09.1939 Economic squad 7) 05.09.1939-DD.09.1939 208. polostálá anti-aircraft artillery platoon 8) | 24.08.1939-09.09.1939 2nd Firing Platoon 24.08.1939-09.09.1939 Maintenance Platoon 05.09.1939-DD.09.1939 208th Semistationary Anti-Aircraft Artillery Platoon |
| Note: Note: | 1) According to the mobilization of the tables her name sounded Motorized anti-aircraft artillery battery B type no. 85 (bateria motorowa artylerii przeciwlotniczej type B nr 85). In Polish historiography it is, however, placed as here. 2) the Battery ceased to exist as an organised unit in the fight Southern grouping of Army "Prusy" units 3. lightweight division at the town of Iłża. The last entry in the Polish historiography on the activities of the battery is about the night shift 07./08.09.1939. 3) From the village of Nagłowice battery přesunovala in marching columns, together with the Armored standard no. 51. 4) In the list of captured is not listed. 5) platoon Commander was second lieutenant of the artillery in reserve Romuald Boniecki. 10.09.1939 fell into captivity in the village of Kozienice. 6) the Second internet source states that the platoon commander was a lieutenant of artillery in reserve Kazimierz Korczyński. The first internet source states that he was a member of the battery and 09.09.1939 fell into captivity in the town of Radom. In the personnel report units of air defence is given an unknown aspirant waiting in the wings. 7) platoon Commander is not in the listed sources listed. 8) Platoon was mobilized in the city of Kielce as a factory squad metallurgical plant "Ludwików". In some Polish sources listed as a factory squad of the factory "Granat", in which they were produced iu hand grenades. She was armed with two 40 mm cannon Bofors wz. 38 and the operator formed the workers in the factories. Polostálá platoon had their means of transport and so had to stay in the city and fall into the hands of the Germans. Techno-economic platoon Armored squadrons no 51 sent their means of transport and shifted her guns to the battery. 06.09.1939 led direct fire on the unit 2. lightweight division and were destroyed by her 2 trucks (freight cars Polski FIAT 621 of the economic squad of 85. battery?). The date of her disappearance or the name of the commander are not in the listed sources listed. | |
| Source: Sources: | https://www.straty.pl/index.php/szukaj-w-bazie https://www.straty.pl/index.php/szukaj-w-bazie Kopczewski, Marian - Moszumański, Zbigniew: Polska artyleria przeciwlotnicza w wojnie obronnej 1939 roku, Warszawa 1999 | |