Radio Amateurs members of the Dobrzycki Klub Krotkofalowcow, SP3PDO will be active using special call signs SP80PW and SO80PW from Dobrzyca, Poland, commemorating 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising.
They will operate on HF Bands.
QSL via SP3PDO buro or direct.
Information from their QRZ page:
The uprising began on August 1, 1944 at 5 p.m., the so-called at "W" hour, by order of the commander of the Home Army, General Tadeusz Komorowski "Bora". The uprising, planned for several days, lasted 63 days and collapsed on October 3.
Warsaw Uprising - losses
As a result, 16,000 people died. up to 18 thousand Home Army soldiers and from 150 thousand up to 180 thousand civilians. After the capitulation, Warsaw was completely destroyed by the Germans. They expelled the surviving inhabitants of the capital from the city.
Warsaw Uprising – causes
The uprising was intended to liberate the capital from German occupation before the Red Army entered it. The Home Army and the authorities of the Polish Underground State planned to reveal themselves and act against the Polish Committee of National Liberation, established in Lublin and dependent on Stalin's will, as the only legal authority of the independent Republic of Poland.
Warsaw Uprising - Home Army soldiers
On the day of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, the Warsaw District of the Home Army and the Kedyw (Disruption Management of the Home Army Headquarters) had over 40,000. soldiers, and including the Home Army security forces – 58,000. 25,000 people took up arms against the occupiers. up to 37 thousand people, because not everyone reached the assembly points on time and did not retrieve weapons from hiding places and warehouses. New volunteers were constantly joining the uprising. It can be said that in total there were over 48,000 soldiers of the Warsaw Uprising.
Warsaw Uprising – soldiers of other formations
Members of other pro-independence armed formations also joined the uprising, including: Polish People's Army, National Armed Forces and the few fighters of the Jewish Combat Organization who remained alive after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. During the uprising, the Military Units of the Security Corps, the Military Units of the Polish Socialists' Emergency Service and two battalions of the National Military Organization subordinated themselves to the command of the Home Army. Over 1,600 soldiers of the People's Army and many navy blue policemen also fought in the Warsaw Uprising.
Warsaw Uprising – foreigners
Several hundred foreigners joined the fight against the German occupier, and representatives of over 20 nationalities - a total of 200-300 people - fought in the uprising. Among them were: Hungarians, Slovaks, Georgians, French, Belgians, Dutch, Greeks, British, Italians, Armenians, Russians, as well as individual representatives of other nations: Azerbaijan, Czech, Ukrainian, Romanian, Australian and Nigerian.
Warsaw Uprising – weapons and uniforms
On the day of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, soldiers had only 2,500 pistols, 1,475 rifles, 420 submachine guns, 94 light machine guns, and 20 heavy machine guns. There were also weapons produced by the Home Army itself: flamethrowers, incendiary bottles, lightning guns, and grenades. Weapons and ammunition were obtained from the enemy or arrived thanks to Allied airdrops. However, the insurgents were defenseless against attacks by the Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht artillery.
Home Army soldiers did not have uniform uniforms, they fought in civilian clothes or captured German uniforms. Externally, they were distinguished from their enemies by white and red armbands, eagles on their hats, and trimmings on their collars.
Warsaw Uprising - German actions
Upon learning of the outbreak of the uprising, Hitler ordered carpet bombing of Warsaw. The Luftwaffe was to "level Warsaw to the ground" and suppress the uprising. Since many German offices and military and police units were cut off in the city, Hitler entrusted the task of organizing the relief of the Warsaw garrison to Reichsfuerer-SS Heinrich Himmler and the chief of the general staff of the Supreme Command of the Land Forces, General Heinz Guderian, whom he ordered to murder all the inhabitants of the Polish capital.
Troops constituting a collection of various police, school and auxiliary units were sent to the relief of the Germans in Warsaw, while full-fledged tactical units remained on the front of the fight against the Red Army. The "relief forces" included: a hastily organized police group from the Warthegau, commanded by SS-Gruppenführer Heinz Reinefarth; the SS "Dirlewanger" regiment, composed of German criminals released from prisons and concentration camps; collaborationist SS brigade RONA; 608th Protection Regiment, as well as Azerbaijani battalions.
Warsaw Uprising – meaning
Although the uprising ended in defeat militarily, politically it was of great importance because Poles demonstrated their desire to regain and maintain independence. The Warsaw Uprising ensured that the Polish state, although enslaved and satellite, retained its independence. However, the uprising did not have much impact on Hitler's fall - ultimately, the Third Reich was destroyed by the USSR and the Allied forces.
They will operate on HF Bands.
QSL via SP3PDO buro or direct.
Information from their QRZ page:
The uprising began on August 1, 1944 at 5 p.m., the so-called at "W" hour, by order of the commander of the Home Army, General Tadeusz Komorowski "Bora". The uprising, planned for several days, lasted 63 days and collapsed on October 3.
Warsaw Uprising - losses
As a result, 16,000 people died. up to 18 thousand Home Army soldiers and from 150 thousand up to 180 thousand civilians. After the capitulation, Warsaw was completely destroyed by the Germans. They expelled the surviving inhabitants of the capital from the city.
Warsaw Uprising – causes
The uprising was intended to liberate the capital from German occupation before the Red Army entered it. The Home Army and the authorities of the Polish Underground State planned to reveal themselves and act against the Polish Committee of National Liberation, established in Lublin and dependent on Stalin's will, as the only legal authority of the independent Republic of Poland.
Warsaw Uprising - Home Army soldiers
On the day of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, the Warsaw District of the Home Army and the Kedyw (Disruption Management of the Home Army Headquarters) had over 40,000. soldiers, and including the Home Army security forces – 58,000. 25,000 people took up arms against the occupiers. up to 37 thousand people, because not everyone reached the assembly points on time and did not retrieve weapons from hiding places and warehouses. New volunteers were constantly joining the uprising. It can be said that in total there were over 48,000 soldiers of the Warsaw Uprising.
Warsaw Uprising – soldiers of other formations
Members of other pro-independence armed formations also joined the uprising, including: Polish People's Army, National Armed Forces and the few fighters of the Jewish Combat Organization who remained alive after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. During the uprising, the Military Units of the Security Corps, the Military Units of the Polish Socialists' Emergency Service and two battalions of the National Military Organization subordinated themselves to the command of the Home Army. Over 1,600 soldiers of the People's Army and many navy blue policemen also fought in the Warsaw Uprising.
Warsaw Uprising – foreigners
Several hundred foreigners joined the fight against the German occupier, and representatives of over 20 nationalities - a total of 200-300 people - fought in the uprising. Among them were: Hungarians, Slovaks, Georgians, French, Belgians, Dutch, Greeks, British, Italians, Armenians, Russians, as well as individual representatives of other nations: Azerbaijan, Czech, Ukrainian, Romanian, Australian and Nigerian.
Warsaw Uprising – weapons and uniforms
On the day of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, soldiers had only 2,500 pistols, 1,475 rifles, 420 submachine guns, 94 light machine guns, and 20 heavy machine guns. There were also weapons produced by the Home Army itself: flamethrowers, incendiary bottles, lightning guns, and grenades. Weapons and ammunition were obtained from the enemy or arrived thanks to Allied airdrops. However, the insurgents were defenseless against attacks by the Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht artillery.
Home Army soldiers did not have uniform uniforms, they fought in civilian clothes or captured German uniforms. Externally, they were distinguished from their enemies by white and red armbands, eagles on their hats, and trimmings on their collars.
Warsaw Uprising - German actions
Upon learning of the outbreak of the uprising, Hitler ordered carpet bombing of Warsaw. The Luftwaffe was to "level Warsaw to the ground" and suppress the uprising. Since many German offices and military and police units were cut off in the city, Hitler entrusted the task of organizing the relief of the Warsaw garrison to Reichsfuerer-SS Heinrich Himmler and the chief of the general staff of the Supreme Command of the Land Forces, General Heinz Guderian, whom he ordered to murder all the inhabitants of the Polish capital.
Troops constituting a collection of various police, school and auxiliary units were sent to the relief of the Germans in Warsaw, while full-fledged tactical units remained on the front of the fight against the Red Army. The "relief forces" included: a hastily organized police group from the Warthegau, commanded by SS-Gruppenführer Heinz Reinefarth; the SS "Dirlewanger" regiment, composed of German criminals released from prisons and concentration camps; collaborationist SS brigade RONA; 608th Protection Regiment, as well as Azerbaijani battalions.
Warsaw Uprising – meaning
Although the uprising ended in defeat militarily, politically it was of great importance because Poles demonstrated their desire to regain and maintain independence. The Warsaw Uprising ensured that the Polish state, although enslaved and satellite, retained its independence. However, the uprising did not have much impact on Hitler's fall - ultimately, the Third Reich was destroyed by the USSR and the Allied forces.