; bringing together several info about this...............................Kock 1939.
Near the end of September, with the Soviet Union having entered into the war against Poland on the 17th, elements of the 13. I.D. (mot.) had several encounters with the Red Army, including a mistaken exchange of fire between scout cars of the A.A. 13 and an advance detachment of the Red Army. This incident prompted both sides to arrange a meeting to negotiate the two armies’ respective boundaries in the area east of the Wieprz River. On October 1st a delegation from the 13. I.D. (mot.), headed by the division’s Ic (Hauptmann Helmut Lunke) and under the full authority of XIV. Armeekorps (mot.), was sent to negotiate territorial boundaries with the Soviets. Three armored scout cars of the A.A. 13 (Leutnant Achim Scheiber) accompanied the delegation on its trip. The delegation party, including the three armored cars of the reconnaissance battalion, did not return. Operations on the following day revealed that the delegation and escorting armored cars had driven directly into a Polish cavalry unit and were destroyed, with the armored cars left burning from anti-tank fire.
Meanwhile Polish troops reached Kock region by September 30 and on October 1, 1939, an ambush carried out by the 2nd Uhlans Regiment in the Tchórzew forest on the Kock-Radzyń road destroyed three German armored cars. The author of this success was the anti-tank gunner st. ułan Władysław Mierzejewski. These events mark the beginning of the last battle of the Polish campaign of 1939.
A story about the event: - Then the observer's signal - tanks from Kock! I am observing through binoculars - yes, there is something going on the road on us. They are 1500-1800 m from us. Three armored cars, not tanks; one after another at a distance of about 100 m. Crosses are already visible, it's German! Gunner - a young corporal, he jumps to the gun scope. Hand movements improve aiming. The cars go all the time, they are already 600-800 m. The second lieutenant is nervous. - Corporal! Why don't you shoot? A sharp whisper from the position - because the third will escape me! And finally, when the first car is at most 200 m - a shot flash; got in the middle. Ammunition like a machine has already loaded - movement of the knob - shot; then shot again and the third car was also got! The middle vehicle quickly turns into a field and runs away across the road. The corporal shoots again - once, twice - and he also got it! He did not escape and begins to burn. I hear the machine gun series. The Uhlans shoot the escaping crews. After a while, silence - only armored cars are burning (...)
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