POLISH MILITARY DISTRICT TROOP UNIT EFFECTIVENESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000500210002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 19, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Poland REPORT NO.
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SUBJECT Polish Military District DATE DISTR.
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POLISH MILITARY DISTRICT TROOP UNIT EFFECTIVENESS
1. Periodic
Source stated that the training progress, marksmanShip and combat
efficiency of all Polish Army units was usually determined by inspec-
tions and examinations of units, officers and EM,. which were oonduoted
byAnilitary inspecting commissions. These commissions,, composed of
an unknown. number of uniformed Soviet and Polieh,ArOly officers from
the appropriate military district And/Or the Ministry of National De-
fenee, either conducted or supervised these inspeetions and examitationa.,
They were held twice. a year, once in the .spring and once in the fall.
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? the units
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combat-ready by September of each year.. However,. 50X1
that these units were .falrly well trained only to the company level at
most by the spring of the succeeding year, as a result of demobilization ,
after fall manuevere and the subse uent arrival of the incoming con- 50:00
script class. As an example, during the spring of 1953 and a
at a regimental officers, cal or zurkiewiez (fnu)? the regimental
commander of 141st And Regt, told the officers that the regimenb'
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had been rated as very poor by the inspecting commission during the
spring examinations just conducted.
Major. Mazurkiewicz also told the officers that the units of the War-
saw Military District were rated as the best of all Polish Army units
-during the same spring, and that the units of the Wroclaw (Breslau)
'Military District had been rated as the best for the year 1952. Source
had no knowledge on the results of inspeetions condUcted during 1954
1101 had no further information on these inspections.
General Combat Readiness of Polish Army. Armored
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Polish Army armored unite
generally maintained a number of flat cars at nearby railroad sidings
Which could be used for emergency rail movement. The number of cars
as usually sufficient to accomodate approximately 50 per cent of the
tanks and self-propelled guns organic to the armored units concerned.
The remainder of the armored units would probably. Utilize trucks or
flat cars in any movement to join the initial group' where and if they
were needed.
Reserve fuei dumps were maintained by all armored units. However,
source stated that POL trucks were also kept in readiness and would
either be loaded .an flat cars or travel by road to fuel the tanks
and self-propelled guns. Each unit also maintained sealed ammunition
dumps. . Ammunition was to be drawn from these dUMPeonly in case of
a combat alert or an emergency situation in a neat-b, locality. Source,
however, could not give any details on the quality of fuel and ammu-
nition stored at these dumps, since they were well guarded and entrance
wis forbidden to all officers and troops with the exception of a unit's
CO. He believed that Other Politth Army artored'Units generally fol-
lowed this procedure.
3. Autumn Decreases in Armored Unit Effectiveness
Concerning armored units source stated that during October and until
about 15 December of each year, all tanks and armored vehicles in
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and air filters were cleaned, their engine oil changed and all equip-
ment and engines carefully inspected by the Regimental technical of-
ficers and unit commanders. He thought this routine was followed in
all other Polish Army Armored units. During this period of fall and
early winter maintenance, all Polish armored units were very vulner-
able and unprepared for any emergency.
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