European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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And often you couldn’t carry them out, because you ran up into a patrol or something.
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So you send not just one messenger, but a few.
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That is how it ended. That is why the regiment got disbanded.
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Either we got through to Warsaw on our own or to the Kampinos Forest.
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When this order to disband reached us, my commander and friend, cadet ‘Witold’ wanted to shoot himself.
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Lieutenant ‘Andrzej’, the commander of this company grabbed his sten,
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