Motorized Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battery type A - Bateria motorowa artylerii przeciwlotniczej type A
A troop of artillery designed for anti-aircraft defence of troops within an infantry division. Batteries did not exist in the peacetime divisional structure. They were formed after the start of the alarm mobilization (24.08.1939) by mobilization bodies of anti-aircraft artillery deployed in the individual corps areas. Only the 13th Battery was mobilized on 13-14 August. The batteries were fully motorized and organizationally self-sufficient. Some of them were used in the state's air defense system and did not join their divisions.
Battery organizational structure:
Commander
Command escort: reconnaissance officer, medical patrol, replacement personnel
communication squad - 2 radio and 1 telephone patrol
4 firing platoons - in each platoon a measuring swarm, a gun operator, a machine gun operator
technical and economic squad: technical section, automobile workshop, repair patrol, ammunition section, economic section
Battery table numbers:
| Tabulated battery counts (etat battery) | Total |
|---|---|
| officers (officers) | 6 |
| NCOs + privates | 169 |
| 40 mm anti-aircraft guns Bofors wz. 36 | 4 |
| 7.92 mm light machine guns leMG 08/15 | 8 |
| C2P artillery tractors | 8 |
| passenger SUVs Polski Fiat 508 III | 5 |
| PF 618, Polski Fiat 508/518 SUVs with radio | 2 |
| special off-road cars PF 508/518 | 10 |
| trucks up to 2 tons PF 621L | 16 |
| PF 508/518 | 1 |
| motorcycles Sokół 1000 M111 with sidecar | 3 |
| workshop car | 1 |
| welding trailer wz. 37 | 1 |
| ammunition trailers | 4 |
| PHM trailers | 8 |
| stereoscopic rangefinders 1,5 m | 4 |
| N1S radios | 1 |
| radio station N2S | 1 |
| field kitchen wz. 31/Sam type II | 1 |
| Sources: | Gaj, Krzysztof M.: 10. Brygada Kawalerii w 1939 roku - organizenna wojenna wielkiej jednostki motorowej, Wydawnictwo NapoleonV, Oświęcim 2013, pp. 123-131, 321-327 |
| Notes: | Each firing platoon had 2 light machine guns (one cash, one reserve) and could be represented by heavy MG 08 or vz. 30. Some batteries did not receive radios or the prescribed number of range finders |
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Firing diameter per gun - 200 rounds
The battery was carrying 4 firing diameters (160 rounds for each gun and another in the ammunition trailers)
The ammunition for the next 10 days was provided by the staff of each army's army air commander.
Sources:
Gaj, Krzysztof M.: 10. Brygada Kawalerii w 1939 roku - organizacja wojenna wielkiej jednostki motorowej, Wydawnictwo NapoleonV, Oświęcim 2013
Kopczewski, Marian-Moszumański, Zbigniew: Polska artyleria przeciwlotnicza w wojnie obronnej 1939 roku, Warszawa 1999
Moszumański, Zbigniew 1. Pułk Artylerii Przeciwlotniczej 1920-1939 imienia Marszałka Edwarda Rydza-Śmigłego, Ajaks, Adiutor, Pruszków 2005
As part of the mobilisation, the following batteries were displayed:
| Motorized anti-aircraft artillery battery type A No. | Mobilization body | Mobilization center | Mobilization group and date of reaching cash | Mobilized for: | Battery commander as of 01.09.1939 | 1 | 3rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Vilno | Brown (G2+32) | 1st Legionary Infantry Division | Artillery Lieutenant Stefan Maria Osostowicz | 2 | 11th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Dęblin | brown (G2+28) | 2nd Legionary Infantry Division | Lieutenant of Artillery Alfred Adam Słociński | 3 | 9th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Brest nad Bugem | brown (G2+42) | 3rd Legionary Infantry Division | Captain of Artillery Stanisław Małecki | 4 | 8th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Torun | brown (G2+28) | 4th Infantry Division | Captain of Artillery Leon Furmanowicz | 5 | 6th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Lvov | brown (G2+36) | 5th Infantry Division | Artillery Captain Edward Dyhdalewicz | 6 | 5th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Kraków | brown (G2+24) | 6th Infantry Division | Artillery Lieutenant Józef Grzegorz Dac | 7 | 5th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Kraków | brown (G2+30) | 7th Infantry Division | Captain of Artillery Stanisław Tomasz Piotr Marczak | 8th | 1st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment | Warsaw | brown (G2+36) | 8th Infantry Division | Captain of Artillery Józef Franciszek Płodowski | 9th | 1st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment | Warsaw | brown (G2+52) | 9th Infantry Division | Artillery Lieutenant Tadeusz Jan Walużyniec | 10 | 7th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Poznan | brown (G2+24) | 10th Infantry Division | Artillery Lieutenant Stanisław Mieczysław Ungeheier | 11 | 6th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Lvov | Brown (G2+44) | 11th Infantry Division | Artillery Captain Tadeusz Dobiesław Hordyński | 12 | 6th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division | Lvov | Brown (G2+32) | 12th Infantry Division | Captain of Artillery Franciszek Burski | 13 | 13th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battery | Rovno | green (Z+36) | 13th Infantry Division | Artillery Captain Teodor Augustyn Sylwester Zacharjasiewicz | 14 | 7th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division | Poznan | brown (G2+32) | 14th Infantry Division | Captain of Artillery Stanisław Zaleski | 15th | 8th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Torun | brown (G2+32) | 15th Infantry Division | Artillery Lieutenant Tomasz Neugebauer | 16 | 8th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Torun | brown (G2+40) | 16th Infantry Division | Captain of Artillery Julian Franciszek Wojtusiak | 17 | 7th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Poznan | brown (G2+30) | 17th Infantry Division | Artillery Captain Wiktor Borodzicz | 18 | 1st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment | Warsaw | Brown (G2+44) | 18th Infantry Division | Artillery Lieutenant Wiktor Pławiński | 19 | 3rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Vilno | Brown (G2+24) | 19th Infantry Division | Artillery Captain Władysław Jan Żdżarski | 20 | 2nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Grodno | Brown (G2+36) | 20th Infantry Division | Second Lieutenant of Artillery Witold Barncewicz | 21 | 5th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Kraków | Brown (G2+36) | 21st Mountain Infantry Division | Artillery Captain Borys Godunow | 22 | 11th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Dęblin | Brown (G2+32) | 22nd Mountain Infantry Division | Reserve Artillery Lieutenant Janusz Makarczyk | 23 | 15th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Katowice | Brown (G2+20) | 23rd Infantry Division | Artillery Captain Ferdynand Blechinger | 24th | 5th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Kraków | brown (G2+42) | 24th Infantry Division | Artillery Captain Józef Jan Kopeć | 25th | 7th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Poznan | brown (G2+36) | 25th Infantry Division | Artillery Captain Paweł Kazimierz Żniński [26 | 1st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment | Warsaw | Brown (G2+28) | 26th Infantry Division | Artillery Captain Zbigniew Feliks Luer | 27 | 9th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Brest nad Bugem | brown (G2+30) | 27th Infantry Division | Artillery Captain Władysław Bandrowski | 28 | 1st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment | Warsaw | brown (G2+24) | 28th Infantry Division | Lieutenant of Artillery Marian Jan Ostaszewski | 29 | 2nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Grodno | Brown (G2+40) | 29th Infantry Division | Captain of Artillery Kazimierz de Latour | 30 | 9th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Brest nad Bugem | brown (G2+36) | 30th Infantry Division | Artillery Lieutenant Tytus Roman Jakubowski | 71 | 6th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Detachment | Lvov | black (A+36) | 10th Cavalry Brigade | Artillery Lieutenant Roman Władysław Zwil |
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| Note: | Kopczewski and Moszumański also mention a battery for the Warsaw Tank and Motorized Brigade, but it is not listed in the mobilization table of the 1st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment. Its commander was to be Capt. Karol Jakóbiec. |
| Sources: | Rybka, Ryszard-Stepan, Kamil: Rocznik Oficerski 1939, Księgarnia Akademicka Fundacji Czynu Niepodległościowego, Kraków 2006 |
| Rybka, Ryszard-Stepan, Kamil: The best weapon. Plan mobilizacyjny "W" i jego ewolucja, Oficyna Wydawnicza "Adiutor", Warsaw 2010 | |
| Kopczewski, Marian-Moszumański, Zbigniew: Polska artyleria przeciwlotnicza w wojnie obronnej 1939 roku, Warszawa 1999 |
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