Post by Odin of Ossetia on Jan 8, 2012 19:39:04 GMT -5
GL (Gwardia Ludowa - People's Guard), 1942-1943
michalw.narod.ru/index-GL.html
Altogether some 1 600 combat actions during 1942-1943 period (in 1942 alone, when the GL was only starting to wage its partisan warfare, at least over 80 clashes, engagements, and battles against the German military and police forces - most notable battles near Szwedy, in vicinity of Kutery, in the Lasy Parczewskie forest complex, avengement actions in Warsaw, Cracow, Radom and elsewhere - in addition to 55 attacks on the railway transportation - resulting in 27 train derailments while 18 railway stations and bridges were destroyed - and 13 attacks on the road transportation, and hundreds of actions aimed against the occupier's economic interests and installations working for its war effort, as well as hundreds of prisoners and camp inmates - 500 from the slave labour camp at Janiszow alone - were freed).
michalw.narod.ru/index-GL42.html
In 1943 the war effort of the GL increased significantly, including a drastic rise in the number of the derailed trains; during the 1942-1943 period there were derailed 194 trains.
Out of the 1 600 actions conducted during 1942-1943 years over 500 were directed against the German police and military forces, with the rest being directed against the means of transportation, economic assets and industrial and agricultural facilities, as well as against the German government apparatus.
GL had some 5 000 members at the end of 1942, and 10 000 a year later.
Marsz GL