Motorizovaná protiletadlová dělostřelecká baterie typ A [1939-1939]

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:



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: