Supplying these systems include North Korea, Peoples Republic of China, and theįormer Soviet Union. Part from the numerous advanced weapons systems, sensors and delivery platforms nowĪvailable on the open market, especially since the end of the Cold War. Surface, and subsurface threats facing our naval forces. The post Cold War world has seen a rapid growth on potential air, MODULE 3≻ATTLEGROUP COMMANDERS & THE CWC CONCEPT Force Over the Horizon Track Coordinator (FOTC ) 3- * Submarine Element Coordinator (SEC) 3- *ĩ. ![]() Helicopter Element Coordinator (HEC) 3- *Ĩ. Air Resources Element Coordinator (AR) 3- *ħ. Command & Control Warfare Commander (AQ) 3- *Ħ. Role of the Composite Warfare Commander (CWC) 3- *Ĥ. MODULE 3≻ATTLEGROUP COMMANDERS & THE CWC CONCEPT 3- *ī. Fearing that her cargo of 300 mines was a liability, he ordered the munitions be thrown overboard.United States Naval Reserve Intelligence Program Stefan Kwiatkowski, was killed by German machine gun fire, 29 of his men were wounded, and his ship's rudder was jammed. The commanding officer of ORP Gryf, Cmdr. A near miss disabled Mewa, killing or wounding her 22 crewmen, so that she had to be taken in tow by Rybitwa. There were no direct hits, but two Polish minelayers suffered damage from near misses and machine gun fire, ORP Gryf and ORP Mewa. However, soon after the first air raid was repelled, the German bombers returned, around 18:00. The backbone of the Polish flotilla, ORP Gryf with over 300 naval mines on board, remained unharmed. The air raid was mostly unsuccessful and the Polish vessels suffered only minor losses. Concentrated AA fire forced the planes to bomb from a higher altitude. ![]() The Polish ships zig-zagged wildly to avoid being hit. The German aircraft divided themselves into two groups and attacked. While traversing Danzig Bay, the flotilla was surprised by a group of 33 German warplanes, mostly Junkers Ju 87B Stuka dive bombers. ![]() Within half an hour a German airstrike was organized and launched. That afternoon a German reconnaissance aircraft spotted Gryf. The destroyer ORP Wicher had left for its position earlier that day and did not partake in the battle. They were as follows: large minelayer Gryf, minelaying minesweepers Jaskółka, Czapla, Żuraw, Czajka, Rybitwa and Mewa and gunboats Komendant Piłsudski and Generał Haller. There, the ships were to start the minelaying operation. The plan was to lay a naval mine barrier between Hel Peninsula and Danzig to prevent any enemy ship from entering the area.Īt dusk ten Polish warships left Gdynia for Hel, located on the other side of the bay. ![]() All submarines were dispatched for their operational zones in the southern Baltic to take part in the Worek Plan, an attempt to defend the Polish coast against possible German landings.Īll the remaining surface vessels were to be dispatched from the naval base in Gdynia to Hel Peninsula, from where they were to start the so-called Operation Rurka. The remaining forces, consisting of one large minelayer, one destroyer, five submarines and smaller vessels were to execute two major naval operations, both aimed at disrupting the German naval movement in the area of the Danzig Bay and transit movement between Germany and East Prussia. After it became apparent that the aggressor would be Germany, and the entrance to the Baltic Sea would be blocked, three out of the four Polish modern destroyers were withdrawn from the Baltic Sea to Great Britain in what was called Operation Peking. The Polish Navy of the Second Polish Republic (1919–39) was prepared mostly as means of supporting naval communications with France in case of a war with the Soviet Union. It was the first naval-air battle of World War II. The Battle of Danzig Bay ( Polish: bitwa w Zatoce Gdańskiej) took place on 1 September 1939, at the beginning of the invasion of Poland, when Polish Navy warships were attacked by German Luftwaffe aircraft in Gdańsk Bay (then Danzig Bay).
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