Operational Group Bielsko (''Grupa Operacyjna Bielsko'', ''GO Bielsko''), named after southern

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city of

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, was an

Operational Group {{Unreferenced, date=October 2008 Operational Group ( pl, Grupa Operacyjna, abbreviated GO) was the highest level of tactical division of the Polish Army before and during World War II and the invasion of Poland. It was corps-sized, although variou ...

of the

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which fought in the 1939

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. Officially created on 23 March 1939, it belonged to Kraków Army, concentrated in southwestern corner of the Second Polish Republic. In the night of 2/3 September 1939, it was renamed into Operational Group Boruta, after General Mieczysław Boruta-Spiechowicz.

Order of Battle in September 1939

* Commandant: General Boruta-Spiechowicz, * Artillery Commandant: Colonel

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, * Staff officer: Major

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, * Chief of Staff: Colonel

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Sixth Infantry Division

* Commandant: General Bernard Mond, * Infantry Commandant: Colonel

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21st Mountain Infantry Division

* Commandant: General

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45th Reserve Infantry Division

* Commandant: General

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Other Units

* First Mountain Brigade, * reserve units: 3rd Battalion of the 12th Infantry Regiment, 51st Independent Light Tank Company, garrison of

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, 4 fighter aircraft of Colonel W. Krol.

References

* Władysław Steblik, Armia „Kraków” 1939, Warszawa, 1975.