Battle of Mokra

What went wrong for the Germans? What went right for the Poles?
Luck? or Skill?

 

Ratio of forces in the battle of Mokra-Ostrowy (1 - 2 September 1939):

Poles/Germans:

1) tanks: 19*/341 --------------------- (ratio: 1:18)
2) armored cars: 8/90 ----------------- (ratio: 1:11)
3) AT guns: 20/60 --------------------- (ratio: 1:3)
4) artillery guns: 20*/48 --------------- (see below)
5) infantry guns: 0/16 ----------------- (ratio 4.&5. - 1:3)
6) heavy mortars: 4/36 ---------------- (ratio - 1:9)
7) light mortars: 18/ca. 60 ------------- (ratio - 1:3)
8) infantry & sapper battalions: 6**/6 -- (ratio - 1:1)
9) AA battalions: 0/1 ------------------- (ratio - 0:1)
10) thousand soldiers: ca. 8/ca. 16 ----- (ratio - 1:2)

+ German air support.

*Including armament of armored train "Smialy".
**Each cavalry regiment counted as one infantry battalion.

Battlefield:

 

"1st battery of 2nd DAK in the battle of Mokra" by Edward Mesjasz:



"2nd battery of 2nd DAK in the battle of Mokra" by Edward Mesjasz:



"3rd battery of 2nd DAK in the battle of Mokra" by Edward Mesjasz:



Source: http://www.dobroni.pl/rekonstrukcje...dwarda-mesjasza-cz32dak-w-boju-pod-mokra,6640

Here photos from the battlefield of Mokra (1939 photos) in this thread:

zdjcia z pola bitwy - Mokra 1939 - Oglnopolski miesicznik ODKRYWCA

And here some photos of graves of German soldiers KIA in the battle of Mokra:

http://s04.trixum.de/upload2/x/b/xbTNsVw8RAlK130875073003P1596.jpg

http://s03.trixum.de/upload2/t/n/tnGo3Efm9AzH130875073882P1596.jpg

http://s04.trixum.de/upload2/3/V/3VNDChy4Ku7t130875075848P1596.jpg

http://s04.trixum.de/upload2/k/O/kO25XBHWpeT6130875071204P1596.jpg

http://s04.trixum.de/upload2/K/Z/KZyUJYDP38cE130875072164P1596.jpg

From:

2.WK Foto POLENFELDZUG GRÄBER vom 1.9.1939 | eBay

 

All graves on these photos are graves of soldiers KIA near Mokra III (there were 3 villages - Mokra I, Mokra II and Mokra III).

 

2nd DAK (seee pictures above) = 2nd Horse Artillery Battalion (integral artillery battalion of Volhynian Cavalry Brigade).

Casualties of 2nd DAK in the battle of Mokra:

- ca. 30 KIA
- ca. 50 WIA
- ca. 30 MIA
- 5 guns lost (destroyed)
- 4 machine guns lost
- 9 ammunition trailers lost
- 115 horses dead