First-hand accounts of the Warsaw Uprising
Memories of Janusz Hamerlinski - a soldier from "Kilinski" Battalion
Situation plans of battles of III squad, 165 platoon, "Szare Szeregi' Company
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The Legend
1 - 'Szare Szeregi' Company Headquarters - 138 Marszalkowska St
2 - Bank
P - PKO Bank - 'Srodmiescie' Group main Headquarters
3 - location of the first action
4 - gateway under heavy machine gun fire
5 - gateway taken by Lt. 'Blyskawica's platoon
6 - gateway taken by volunteer squad of 'Szare Szeregi' Company
7 - newspaper kiosk
8 - flat the medic girl got wounded
9 - night raid room
9a - hall entrance
10 - stationery shop
10a - shooter's cover made of blackout paper rolls
11 - body of German tank infantryman
12 - wreck of the tank - tugged later to gateway 16
13- anti fire water container
D - The Prudential skyscraper
14 - heavy machine gun bunker
14a - German military police station - Moniuszki St.
15 - Main Post Office
16 - entrance gateway
17 - guard house
18 - passage to the basements
19 - medical point
20 - dining room
21 - 'Szare Szeregi' Company barracks
22 - basement corridor
23 - barricade by the passage to Gorskiego St.
24 - remaining staircase of burned and collapsed building
25 - shooting position at the attic over cafeteria
26 - entrance to the sewers with the lid
27 - barricade across Nowy Swiat St.
28 - shooting position in the corner tower
29 - shooting positions (at the windows) to fight off attack from Nowy Swiat St.
30 - book store
31 - St. Cross church
32 - German communication cover wall
33 - Pa - 'PASTA' switchboard house
34 - piles of rubble and debris
35 - location to start attack towards Grzybowski Sq.
36 - red brick wall
37 - burned house
38 - building taken by Germans
Janusz Hamerliński
redaction: Maciej Janaszek-Seydlitz
translation: Wojciech Hamerlinski
Janusz Hamerlinski born 2 July 1926 in Warsaw private of Armia Krajowa (Home Army) - AK alias "Morski" III squad, 165 platoon, "Szare Szeregi" Company "Kilinski" Battalion |
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