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4. difficult to supply despite having an extensive economic apparatus.
5. All this could be avoided by establishing a heavy machine gun platoon with each company in the battalion and a 4.2 heavy mortar platoon at brigade headquarters in the command company.
And although the Independent Squadron fulfilled its task 100%, its existence as an independent unit seems to have been deprived of a rationale.
It is more or less a question of the existence and functioning of the squadron within and under the Polish command. Tactically, the squadron was not used properly. It was never an asset in the hands of the brigade commander, who should have used it when the situation demanded it. Divided among the battalions, whether necessary or not, it lost its value as a moving weapon with high firepower and high mobility.

 

Kazimierz Duda - War Chronicles - 8 August 1944 to 10 January 1945 - Page 113

Translation from French version: Steven Duda

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