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by AlekBolduin » 18 Jun 2013, 10:23
Thanks for the clarification.
Indeed 75dal-it's a double counting, and 75dal for 55DP.
Regarding the armored trains ...
It seems to me that their armor (20-300mm) is not a big obstacle for direct shots in 1939, as the tanks, they are bad, as are "tied" to the railway, and 75-mm gun shoots very close ..
The Germans used the armored train as FLAK and counterinsurgency rarely against the front line ..
Soviet troops used an armored train .. I can not say it's good, too.
Very few "survived" to the end of the war.
Maybe 12-15 pieces (8-10 «bronedivision» 1-2 armored each) by 1945.
Perhaps Poland had broneproezda or throw, do not spend money on maintenance and training, or convert themselves to FLAK (defend Warsaw for example) or for 220-mm or 155-mm guns.
With regard to mobilization. Allow me to say.
1.
1 \ 3 artillery weapon was not used (1 \ 2-mortars can tell).
We can compare the Finnish efforts - even the guns of the 19th century have been used to the last guns, soldiers in the rear (baggage, artillery) had no rifles, but it was a lot, a lot of infantry.
2.
Each division had Replacement Unit - OsZap - Osrodek Zapasovy (2-3 battalion or even more), in addition, each infantry regiment had a replacement btn. A lot of people (5-6 replacement btn vs 9 Infantary btn in each DP) was "spent" for these Replacement Unit \ Btn, have poor management, poor organization, poor equipment (but 1 \ 3 artillery and 1 \ 2 mortars have been forgotten somewhere in the warehouses , for example in Grodno, Lomza, Brest,Pshemisl fortress and others).
We can compare the Finnish efforts. There was only one replacement btn in each IndfDiv, this is quite enough. But there were 12 infantry divisions (1,4-10,11-13,21-23) and 2 Bde (replacement and cavalry) + ~30 Inf Btn, well done for a country with a population of 3.5 million. Poland had 35 million, 10 times more, motivation is extremely high. And 39 infantry divisions (not 12*10), 16 brigades (not 2*10), and about 70 mobilized and improvised Inf Btn (not 30*10).
3. The Polish Army had 10 Corps (and the headquarters of 10 groups of artillery) in peacetime.
But there was not a single case in wartime (even "Intervention Corps' twice changed its composition in 1939, and even changed his commander in August 1939, left without a commander at the time of mobilization).
There were only 7 of armies and about 14 operational groups (of disparate forces, improvised composition in HQ). In this case, a staff of four DOK(1,2,9,10) wasn’t converted to form armies or groups. Why is that?
10 GA (in each DOK) and 30 Infantry Inspectors staff (en each regular Inf Div) - may be 40 reserve Divisional HQ for example?
6 replacment inf. btn in each regular Inf Div – it was ~180 Inf Btn. It was 20 second-wave Inf Div may be formed of this, for example. But only Nine DPrez (Including KOP and ON personnel and HQs) was in real life.
We can compare the Finnish efforts. There were 3 divisions in peacetime and it was 3 corps in wartime. Was the HQ of the Border Guard, it became the HQ of "Northern Finland" operational group, was the HQ of SuolesKunta (National Guard)-became the HQ of the «behind home force».
I think mobilization planing was all done very confusing (and therefore 1 \ 3-1 \ 2 artillery and mortars had been lost in a warehouse) and incorrect.