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September 14, 2019 at 1:03 pm #1435687

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Well, I am back from a 4 day conference and finally have some time to post here thou I need SLEEP 😀

@oriskany @jamesevans140 when it comes to German cavalry both of you are right. Apart from the 1st Kavallerie Brigade we can find the 5th Kavallerie Regiment from Stolp (currently Słupsk) that got attached to the 4th Army from Army Group North. The regiment was partially motorized and by partially I mean the specialized units. It fought West of Gdynia and later blocked Polish units surrounded in the Hel peninsula near Wejherowo. There can be problems with finding them as a cavalty unit in the oob’s because it was used in an infantry role.

@oriskany you are righ when it comes to the recon role of the cavalry that was attached to infantry divisions of the 1st wave. Usually the squad (problem with correct term translation on my side. According to my books it was a “dywizjon” which would be translated to a battalion but I think a squadron could also be correct) compromised of 162 men and 133 horses. In the Light Divisions you could find Kavallerie Schutzen Regiments. They were motorized and each one of them had two motorized battalions and each one of them had a platoon of engineers (3x Mg34) and three motorized squadrons (12 rifles, 4x Mg34 and 3x leGrWr36 50mm mortars) plus infantry guns, transport columns etc. In 1939 we can find the