Plans For Uprising
On 12 June 1944 General Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Commander-in-Chief of the Home Army, issued an order to prepare a plan of liberating Vilnius from German hands. The Home Army districts of Vilnius and Navahrudak planned to take control of the city before the Soviets could reach it. The Commander of the Home Army District in Vilnius, lieutenant colonel Aleksander Krzyżanowski "Wilk", decided to regroup all the partisan units in the northeastern part of Poland for the assault, both from inside and outside of the city.
On 26 June 1944 major Teodor Cetys (pseudonym "Sław") and lieutenant colonel Zygmunt Blumski ("Strychański") put forward a plan to "Wilk". Order number 1 "Ostra Brama" comprised an overall outline for an assault on Vilnius. The Home Army forces of combined district Vilnius and Navahrudak were intended to strike from the outside under the lead of lieutenant colonel "Poleszczuk".
The Polish forces were organized into five groups, "East" under major Antoni Olechnowicz "Pohorecki", "North" - major "Węgielny", "Eastern South" - major "Jarema", "South" - major Stanisław Sędziak "Warta", and "West" - rotmistrz Zygmunt Szendzielarz "Łupaszka". Units inside the city were under command of lieutenant colonel "Ludwik".
According to plan, the main attack was prepared from eastern and south-eastern directions.
The second Red Army crosses the front as it stand in 1916 (at sideline of Sół and Smorgoń), uprising begins.
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