Polish Army 1938

[Wolf Rider]

Simple question, really. How many soldiers and how many divisions did Poland have in October of 1938, around the signing of the Munich Agreement? I haven't been able to find anything so far, only about how many they had at the time of the invasion ('39). Any other information about their military would be nice, thanks.

 

[Squonk]

I will try to ask someone who'd know

 

[aelf]

All I know is it's in 3D.

 

[fing0lfin]

I will try to ask someone who'd know

Google perhaps

 

[Antilogic]

The Axis History forum that was linked to from the Paradox HoI3 forums on naval planning has a sub-forum dedicated to Poland between 1919 and 1940 here. I see at least one OOB related to the Polish airforce in early 1939, might have an army OOB that would be close enough for you.

 

[Domen]

How many soldiers

I have data for 1 January 1938 and 1 January 1939.

1 January 1938 - 17.015 officers, 47.049 NCOs and 167.294 enlisted men (= 231.358 soldiers total)
1 January 1939 - 17.731 officers, 49.470 NCOs and 189.177 enlisted men (= 256.378 soldiers total).

These numbers do not include KOP* (I have data for KOP on 10 May 1939 - 907 officers, 3.465 NCOs & 21.000 enlisted men = 25.372 soldiers total).

They also - most likely - do not include Obrona Narodowa - National Defence.

I also have a breakdown of these numbers for individual branches of Armed Forces:

1 January 1938:

Branch - officers/NCOs/enlisted(total)-percent

Infantry - 5387/17497/83749(106633)-46,1%
Cavalry - 1415/3762/27573(32750)-14,2%
Artillery - 2108/4996/24569(31673)-13,7%
Armour - 454/2356/6532(9342)-4,0%
Anti-Air & Anti-Gas - 177/433/1862(2472)-1,1%
Sappers & Fortification Service - 673/1526/4545(6744)-2,9%
Liaison - 378/1204/4458(6040)-2,6%
Air Force - 1073/2651/6229(9953)-4,3%
Fleet - 502/2094/3181(5777)-2,5%

The summ is not 100% (but 91,4%) - so not all branches were included.

1 January 1939:

Branch - officers/NCOs/enlisted(total)-percent

Infantry - 5578/17354/94563(117495)-45,9%
Cavalry - 1451/3927/28510(33888)-13,2%
Artillery - 2084/5053/30393(37530)-14,7%
Armour - 461/2444/7197(10102)-3,9%
Anti-Air & Anti-Gas - 259/604/2471(3334)-1,3%
Sappers & Fortification Service - 691/1614/5781(8086)-3,2%
Liaison - 409/1239/5177(6825)-2,7%
Air Force - 1149/3404/6829(11382)-4,4%
Fleet - 537/2331/3853(6721)-2,6%

The summ is not 100% (but 91,9%) - so not all branches were included.

*KOP = Border Defense Corps (in the East).

how many divisions

The number of divisions was the same as in 1939. That means - 30 active infantry divisions.

9 more reserve divisions were planned to be formed in case of war.

As for the rest - when I will have more time, I will check my sources.

But I think it will be hard to find data precisely for October 1938.

I surely have data for 15.03.1939 and for 1936. But I'm not sure if I have data for 1938.

 

[Domen]

Check the attachments:

BTW - "dyony pancerne" can be translated as "armored units" and also as "armored semi-battalions".

They consisted of one squadron (small company-sized unit) of armored cars and one squadron of reconnaissance tankettes.