Battle of Jordanów

Battle of Jordanów
Part of Invasion of Poland
Soldiers of the 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade using a Bofors 37mm gun
Date 1–3 September 1939 Location Jordanów, Kraków Voivodeship, Poland Result Pyrrhic German victory
Belligerents
Poland	Germany
Commanders and leaders
Stanisław Maczek Jan Wójcik	Eugen Beyer
Units involved
Army Kraków: 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade 1st Regiment of KOP battalion from 12th IR	XXII Panzer Corps: 2nd Panzer Division 4th Light Division 3rd Mountain Division
Strength
5,000 soldiers 58 tanks and AFVs 16 field guns armoured train No.51 "Pierwszy Marszałek"	3/109 heavy artillery 50,000 soldiers 498 tanks and AFVs 128 field guns
Casualties and losses
3+ tanks	70+ tanks and AFVs

Army Kraków:

XXII Panzer Corps:

The Battle of Jordanów took place on 1–3 September 1939, during the Invasion of Poland and the opening stages of World War II. It was fought between the German XVIII Panzer Corps of Gen.E.Beyer and the Polish 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade under Col. Stanisław Maczek.

On 1 September 1939, the XVIII Panzer Corps, part of the German 14th Army, crossed the Polish border from Slovakia. In an attempt to outflank the positions of the Polish Kraków Army under Gen. Antoni Szylling defending Silesia and western Lesser Poland, the Germans crossed the Tatra passes and assaulted the towns of Chabówka and Nowy Targ. Their orders were to seize the town of Myślenice not later than on 3 September thus encircling the entire Polish army fighting in the area.

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