1939 Infantry Regiment (Poland)
The 1939 Polish Infantry Regiment (Pulk Piechoty) comprised some 2900 men and 60 officers organised around 3 Rifle Battalions whose principal weapon was the Mauser 98k, a 7.92 mm bolt-action rifle. Each 19-man squad was also issued the RKM wz.28, a licensed Polish version of the American Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR). Other regimental weapons included the Polish version of the French Model 1897 75-mm field gun, the wz.35 Anti-tank Rifle, the Ckm wz.30 heavy machine gun (an unlicensed copy of the M1917 Browning machine gun), the wz.31 81 mm mortar, and the wz.36 46 mm mortar.
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