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To: henkster

I got to imagine it already feels hopeless for those units in the field. And they haven’t seen the worse of it yet. The Luftwaffe will start hitting Polish units on the 5th. Up to now they have been busy making around 400,000 reserves stranded by taking out their rail access not to mention finishing off the Polish Airforce (pretty much all on the ground).


35 posted on 09/03/2009 12:07:26 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (My tagline is an honor student at Free Republic Elementary School.)
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To: CougarGA7

“I got to imagine it already feels hopeless for those units in the field.”

To say the least...
Polish commanders are losing control of their units, all the way down to battalion and company levels at this point.

Individual units are still putting up stiff resistence at points, but they have no organized support. The Generals in Warsaw passing out orders to commands they don’t know don’t exist, anymore. Withdrawing units have left supplies behind in the retreat, and are running out of ammo and fuel.

And everyone is trying to get through to Modlin, Warsaw, or Lvov. Chaos on the roads, refugees clogging arterys, and realizing that you can only move at night, because come dawn those roving bands of fighter aircraft will be returning to harrass the columns...


50 posted on 09/03/2009 1:24:21 PM PDT by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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