en: tadeusz-sulowski: chapter-7: c: 7 title: "Defeat in Okecie" subtitles: sequence-1: s: 1 from: "00:00:01,00" to: "00:00:10,15" text: "In 1943, I got into the Home Army." sequence-2: s: 2 from: "00:00:10,15" to: "00:00:17,15" text: "So, unfortunately, I wasn’t fighting with my friends from scout times in the Warsaw Uprising," sequence-3: s: 3 from: "00:00:17,15" to: "00:00:29,10" text: "because I was already a Home Army soldier, stationed at the 7th Infantry regiment called ‘Garłuch’ at Okęcie." sequence-4: s: 4 from: "00:00:29,10" to: "00:00:30,10" text: ~ sequence-5: s: 5 from: "00:00:30,10" to: "00:00:36,05" text: "It turns out that the commander of the regiment, major ‘Wysocki’," sequence-6: s: 6 from: "00:00:36,05" to: "00:00:40,18" text: "it was his pseudonym, his real name was Babiarz," sequence-7: s: 7 from: "00:00:40,18" to: "00:00:53,00" text: "found out that the Germans had fortified the airport strongly." sequence-8: s: 8 from: "00:00:53,00" to: "00:01:04,15" text: "They had collected a huge load of arms, machine guns and so on." sequence-9: s: 9 from: "00:01:04,15" to: "00:01:14,01" text: "The Home Army had very few weapons, actually none." sequence-10: s: 10 from: "00:01:14,01" to: "00:01:22,29" text: "We just had these grenades and our platoon had two machine guns from the WWI, without the feeders." sequence-11: s: 11 from: "00:01:22,29" to: "00:01:30,19" text: "You had to insert each bullet separately into the barrel, because otherwise there was no shooting," sequence-12: s: 12 from: "00:01:30,19" to: "00:01:36,22" text: "because we didn’t have those clips which work as magazines for the bullets." sequence-13: s: 13 from: "00:01:36,22" to: "00:01:37,13" text: ~ sequence-14: s: 14 from: "00:01:37,13" to: "00:01:46,11" text: "The commander of the regiment, at 4 o´clock gave an order to not attack those hangars." sequence-15: s: 15 from: "00:01:46,11" to: "00:01:56,17" text: "I don’t know why this order was not given at 1 or 2 o´clock." sequence-16: s: 16 from: "00:01:56,17" to: "00:01:59,15" text: "And the ‘W’ hour (hour of attack) was at 5 o´clock." sequence-17: s: 17 from: "00:01:59,15" to: "00:02:08,18" text: "The order brought by the liaison officer got there, but at 17.30, it was too late." sequence-18: s: 18 from: "00:02:08,18" to: "00:02:14,09" text: "The attack was carried out by a group of barely armed men from the ‘Kuba’ battery." sequence-19: s: 19 from: "00:02:14,09" to: "00:02:20,03" text: "Within half an hour 125 men were killed." sequence-20: s: 20 from: "00:02:20,03" to: "00:02:25,10" text: ~ sequence-21: s: 21 from: "00:02:25,10" to: "00:02:33,18" text: "I bear personal grudges towards the commander that he had not given the order at least an hour earlier." sequence-22: s: 22 from: "00:02:33,18" to: "00:02:41,11" text: "After all he knew there were no phones so the orders had to be carried out on foot." sequence-23: s: 23 from: "00:02:41,11" to: "00:02:47,14" text: "And often you couldn’t carry them out, because you ran up into a patrol or something." sequence-24: s: 24 from: "00:02:47,14" to: "00:02:53,17" text: "So you send not just one messenger, but a few." sequence-25: s: 25 from: "00:02:53,17" to: "00:02:59,04" text: "That is how it ended. That is why the regiment got disbanded." sequence-26: s: 26 from: "00:02:59,04" to: "00:03:11,22" text: "Either we got through to Warsaw on our own or to the Kampinos Forest." sequence-27: s: 27 from: "00:03:11,22" to: "00:03:24,15" text: "When this order to disband reached us, my commander and friend, cadet ‘Witold’ wanted to shoot himself." sequence-28: s: 28 from: "00:03:24,15" to: "00:03:31,13" text: "Lieutenant ‘Andrzej’, the commander of this company grabbed his sten," sequence-29: s: 29 from: "00:03:31,13" to: "00:03:38,05" text: "I took him by the hands and told him: ‘What, have you gone mad, cadet?!" sequence-30: s: 30 from: "00:03:38,05" to: "00:03:42,08" text: "The war is just beginning and you want to commit suicide?!" sequence-31: s: 31 from: "00:03:42,08" to: "00:03:48,06" text: "There will still be chances for you to get shot five times!’" sequence-32: s: 32 from: "00:03:48,06" to: "00:03:53,07" text: "So he stayed. He died later on. He never returned from guerrilla fighting."