Qualla: Battle of Wytyczno https://qualla.com/battle-of-wytyczno en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:35 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Wytyczno https://qualla.com/battle-of-wytyczno Battle of Wytyczno: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-wytyczno/ By dawn on October 1, 1939, the men of General Wilhelm Orlik-Rückemann's Border Defence Corps had walked nearly five hundred kilometers in two weeks. They had crossed forests, swamps, and the Bug River. They had won most of the small fights along the way. They had also lost most of their heavy equipment, most of their ammunition, and most of their illusions about what victory might still mean. Near a Polish village called Wytyczno, the Red Army caught up to them. The battle that followed lasted half a day. It was the Polish Army's last serious engagement of the September Campaign, and it ended the way everyone knew it would.

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/9/0/s/battle-of-wytyczno-wp/u90s-battle-of-wytyczno-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Wytyczno: The Long March https://qualla.com/battle-of-wytyczno/ Three days earlier, at the battle of Szack, Orlik-Rückemann had punched through Soviet positions and forced his exhausted column across the Bug River. The Border Defence Corps, known by its Polish initials KOP, had been built to guard Poland's eastern frontier from Soviet incursi...

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/9/0/s/battle-of-wytyczno-wp/u90s-battle-of-wytyczno-first-light-at-wytyczno.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Wytyczno: The Order Nobody Could Carry Out https://qualla.com/battle-of-wytyczno/ By nine in the morning the Polish 75mm guns had sixty shells left between them. The howitzers had ten rounds per barrel. Orlik-Rückemann ordered the Polesie Battalion to swing left and hit the Soviet flank, the kind of maneuver that might have broken the encirclement. The men of ...

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