BEZWOLA AMMUNITION DUMP OF THE POLISH AIR FORCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A026800500001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 18, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 24, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY -Poland
SUBJECT
CLASSIFICATION
Bezwola Ammunition Dump of the
Polish Air Force
wermourgamsi
REPORT
DATE OF REPORT 24 litych 1958
PLACE ACQUIRED
LAST REPORT ON SUBJECT
(If applicable)
ANNEXES 2-sketches with
legends
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the Bezwola
(51 46 N./ 22 54 E) ammunition dump was located in a fir wood almost
6 km cast of the Pezwola ( 51 46 N / 22 49 E) railroad statinn
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a. The dump was used for storing bombs for the Polish Air Forces,
including bombs of very large size.
Numerous above-ground two-story storehouses, each with three
large rooms, were lomted in the dump.
c. Patrols with police dogs were observed on the danger line between
two fences around the dump. The fences were illuminated at
night.
The bombs in sealed boxcars2 pulled by a steam locomotive of the
PoliSh'railways? were transported on the single-track line from
the Bezwola r i/road station to the barracks installation. The
pidewalls of the boxcars which were always guarded had attached
slips of paper with the Polish inscription reading "furniture",
"glass", "handle with care". The lexcare were drawn (or pushed?)
from the barracks installation into the ammunition dump by a Diesel
locomotive Which was permanently stationed there.
The maximum
number of boxcars par Shipment was 20.
The guard and servicing unit of the dump was stationed in the
barracks installation bordering the dump in the west. The soldiere
of this unit commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Sikorski (fun) wore
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light-blue service coler. The unit had an estimated strength of
about 50 officers and 300 ACOs and EH including 200 guards with
a two-year term of serviee and 100 men of the dump personnel with
three-year term of service. The guards were equipped with
submadhine guns.
Goinmento For sketches with legend
see Annex.
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i'nnex 1
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Legend,
I - ammunition dump
2 - air force kaserne
optur track'
3 single-track horAel gaugaAwith sO'ong ramification
within the ammunition clUmpo
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Annex
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Far 1gend9 see next page.
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Legend to Annex 2
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Layout Sketch of Barrack. Installation Wept of Aterak_tamktagalga
1 - iron-frame gate, usually closed, only open during transports
2 . three-meter high barbed wire fence
3 - sports ground
4 - two-story solid apartment houses for officers families
5 - iron-frame gate, entrance to the barracks installation
6 . two-story, solid guardhouse
7 - two-story, solid apartment house for officers families
8 - two-story, solid headquarters building
9 - garage (with three light trucks, one medical stores wagon,
1 ambulance and 1 caterpillar tractor)
10 - fire brigade, including 1 mobile motor fire engine, 4 portable
motor fire engines
11 - guardhouse
12 - iron-frame gate, entrance to ammunition dump
13-two-story, solid storage building for clothing and ammunition
for guards
14 - two-story, solid storehouse for foodstuffs
15 - two-story, solid building with billets for soldiers
16 - two-story, solid building housing kitchen
17 - new two-story, solid building with billets for soldiers
18 - two-story, solid storehouse for construction material
19 - iron-frame gate, usually shut, only open during transport
20 - three-meter hit,. double barbed wire fence around ammunition
dump with electrie lamps on wooden masts
21 - ammunition dump
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