Reply To: Poland 1939 – Preparing for 80th Anniversary of World War II

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Warsaw Armored Motorized Brigade was a bit different than the 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade because both the 1st Mounted and 1st Foot Rifles Regiments had an additional recce companies (platoon of motorcycles, platoon of bicycles, platoon of TKS tankettes each). All in all the Warsaw Armored Motorized Brigade:

• 1st Mounted Rifle Regiment (1. Pulk Strzelcow Konnych – 1. PSK)
• 1st Foot Rifle Regiment (1. Pulk Strzelcow Pieszych – 1. PSP)

Both included a platoon of enginners, platoon of HMG’s and anti tank platoon.

• 11th Recce Tank Company (13 x TKS tankettes, 4 of them with 20mm guns)
• 12 Light Tank Company (3x Platoons of Vickers tanks (5 each) plus the command tank)
• Brigade Reconnaissance Bn. had 13 x TKS tankettes, 2 of them with 20mm guns
• Two transport columns
• 2nd Motorized Artillery Bn (4 x 75mm guns and 4x 100mm guns)
• Anti tank battalion (2x companies = 36 AT guns don’t know the gun types

The units that joined later are a mystery so to say when it comes to the amount of tanks but according to major Stefan Majewski who was the former commander of the 11th Armored Bn. both the 11th Armored Bn and the 62nd Reece Tanks Company (which included scraps from the 61st Reece Tanks Company) were comparable to a platoon of tanks and this can suggest that more or less we can find 6 tanks in each unit. 2nd Light Tanks Battalion had 22x 7TP tanks. The 33rd Armored Battalion had probably 4 tanks on the 18th of September plus some armored cars.