BARRACKS AND EQUIPMENT OF THE 68TH MECHANIZED REGIMENT OF THE 20TH TANK DIVISION AT BUDOWO

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• Document Release Date: May 17, 2010
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• Publication Date: April 28, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT, Barracks and Equipment of the 68th DATE DISTR. $:8 APR 1958
Mechanized Regiment of the 20th Tank
Division at Budowo NO. PAGES 1
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
A report describing the barracks and equipment of the 68th Regiment of the 20th
Tank Division at Budowo (N 54-19, E 17-24
A sketch showing the layout of the barracks accompanies a repo 0
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Layout and description of the barracks and equipment of the 68th Mochani,sed,,
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11ogimont of the 20th Tank
1, 0rp nisation of the RoI4nEflt
The Regiment includes the following units:
a) HQ and Staff.
b) Tonle Batt ,lion, with 36 tanks
c) 1st Mechanised Infantry Battalion, consisting of:
3 Infantry Coif anies
I Mortar Conixny
Battalion j,rtillery
M11 (DShK) Cambay
Sisals Platoon
Chunical warfare Platoon
Medical. Platoon
d) 2nd Mechanised infantry Dattalicn, organisation identicall, with t1 t
of the 1st Battalion
o) ,=,rnDurod troop carrier Battalion.
Rocco Company
Sig,,-as Company
C/W CcgxinW
AA defence unit
HQ Platoon
Medical service pl.~atoon;/Ca1Tpany
2. Weal-,on strensrth
T ho Regiment has: 36 T 3LV85 tanks
L. SU self laropelled guns
6 anti--tank.. guns
8 MW (DShK)
18 82 rim mortars
6 120 iron mortars
24 annDur piecing guns
V ehiclo str ens; th
This includes'the following vohicles: 18 armoured troop carriers
14 ZIS 150
18 G Z 51 25X1
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14 M 72 motor cycles
6 special vohiclos
/L1. wobi le. -workshops...
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4 mobile workshops
1 transmitting car
Location ( see; small sketch ntp)
a) The Regiment bas boon at BUDOWO since 1950, billeted in an installation.
built in 1936-37 and used by the Germans as a training cam) for the
Olympic Games, It is very modern and only slight nD ificatians have boon
carried out, The camp is about 3 km North-,east of ZLOCIE {' _ (formerly
F`;'T i NDfl G) , and North of BUDO 0, on the shore of the lake known as CROSSIN
Sal;. Five units of the 20th Tank Division are billeted in the corq)o
b) Key to sketch nxap:
,3) 17th Bnrd noors Battalion (military unit 5889, at the North-west and
of the cmp.
s;/B) 68th Mocl nisod ?oniment (military unit 1013) occupying the North -
cast half of the former cLmap.
21) 16th ,;; Battcry, in a square building near the ontrance to the
Re iment' s barracks
P13) 11th Recce Battalion, part the Southern rt of the caup
OV), Officers' quarters, in part of the fora r camp alongside the road from
tho Barracks to ZIIJCIJNLt 0.
Divisional m. for virkshms, originally civilian workshops, on the
North-eastern outskirts of BUDOWO.
5., L;yout of the 68th Regiment' s Barracks
1) Main entrmce, by a road branching off from the road to DUDOW0
2) Offices-'arc, mess for officers, in a ,pound--floor L-shaped installation
North of the main entrance..
3) Boiler house, an undtr'ound installation
4) Garrison laundry, a rrLasonry building 35 x 14 m., North of (3)
5) Boiler house chimnoys, built like an observation tower, with a balcony
6) Training s>xound, in. the North wbst corner
7) powder , zinc, mas~7nry, LTound-floor, built in 1955, 20 x 12 m.,.
at the Nor-1,;h-west corner. -
8) Store for eguii rn nt, a masonry building 30 x 10 m., East of (3).
9) Men's cookhouse, a eomd-fio r rnasorv r building 25 x 10 m, adjoining
(9)
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10) Men' s mess., a ground-floor masonry building 50 x 14 m...
11) Garrison M.I. room and officers' quarters, a one-storeyed building
45 x 12 m., U-shaped, in the Northern part of the Barracks.
12) Mobilisation stores of arms and equipment, in five E-shaped ground-
floor buildings, about 50 m. long, and the wings about 20 x 10 m.
13) Men' s quarters for 68th Mechanised Regt. , in buildings similor?, to (12)
14) Sports round
15) Two p.rata, about 25 x 9 m. , wooden, in the Southern la