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Defeat in Okecie
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In 1943, I got into the Home Army.
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So, unfortunately, I wasn’t fighting with my friends from scout times in the Warsaw Uprising,
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because I was already a Home Army soldier, stationed at the 7th Infantry regiment called ‘Garłuch’ at Okęcie.
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It turns out that the commander of the regiment, major ‘Wysocki’,
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it was his pseudonym, his real name was Babiarz,
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found out that the Germans had fortified the airport strongly.
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They had collected a huge load of arms, machine guns and so on.
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The Home Army had very few weapons, actually none.
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We just had these grenades and our platoon had two machine guns from the WWI, without the feeders.
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You had to insert each bullet separately into the barrel, because otherwise there was no shooting,
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because we didn’t have those clips which work as magazines for the bullets.
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The commander of the regiment, at 4 o´clock gave an order to not attack those hangars.
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I don’t know why this order was not given at 1 or 2 o´clock.
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And the ‘W’ hour (hour of attack) was at 5 o´clock.
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The order brought by the liaison officer got there, but at 17.30, it was too late.
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The attack was carried out by a group of barely armed men from the ‘Kuba’ battery.
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Within half an hour 125 men were killed.
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I bear personal grudges towards the commander that he had not given the order at least an hour earlier.
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After all he knew there were no phones so the orders had to be carried out on foot.
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