This is a list of military units taking part in the Warsaw Uprising, a Polish insurrection during the Second World War that began on August 1, 1944.
Many of the Home Army units were formed before the beginning of the Uprising; several were organised in the following days as new volunteers joined.
On August 1, the Home Army's arsenal consisted of: Types of weapons used can be divided into the following categories:[1] The following list does not correspond with the above area list.
Śródmieście-Północ (City Center - North) Battalion 'Lech Grzybowski' 3 comp
District Headquarters disbanded, separate platoons assigned as support for main units Śródmieście-Południe (City Center - South) Battalion 'Miłosz' Battalion 'Kryśka' WSOP Battalion Siekiera 'Tum' Gendarmery PAL Platoon Company of AL and PAL 3 comp.
The entire force was renamed to Warsaw Home Army Corps (Warszawski Korpus Armii Krajowej), commanded by general Antoni Chruściel (Monter) and consisted of three infantry divisions: The names of smaller units (battalions, companies and platoons) were left intact (as in the above table).
Although the vast majority of the resistance in Warsaw were members of Home Army, there was a small number of fighters who weren't members of that organisation.
Along with the Polish soldiers who took part in the Uprising, there were also members of other nationalities.
Among them was a number of Hungarian deserters[citation needed] and Italian escapees from POW camps in Poland.
John Ward, whose numerous coded radio dispatches gave an eyewitness account of the fighting to the British government and Polish government-in-exile, as well as the London press.
It was composed mostly of Slovaks, Georgians, Armenians and Azeri, and suffered heavy casualties in the course of the uprising (up to 70%).
However, many Jews (possibly as many as 1,000), including those released by Home Army from the Warsaw concentration camp (Gęsiówka), joined the Home Army.
During the final stage of the battle a number of Soviet soldiers (possibly as many as 3,000, most of them members of Polish units in Soviet army) also crossed the river and fought the Germans in Powiśle area.
Airdrops were carried out by allied airmen from Italy, mostly by Poles, Canadians and the British.
As of 23 August 1944 the German units directly involved with fights in Warsaw were divided into: A large section of the forces on the "German" side were, according to Norman Davies, drawn from "'collaborationist forces'" including Russians who had left in the Tzar's era and Azeris.