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The article describes the history of the 8th Infantry Division in district of Łódź in the years 1946–1949. It is a little known episode in the history of this province. This division was created in 1944 and took part in the final period of the Second World War. After the war was directed to the fight against the armed underground in south-easterly Poland. In autumn 1946 the Ministry of Defence decided to move the 8th Infantry Division to new garrisons, situated in the Łódź region. Military units were located in Łódź (Command of the 8th Division and 34 Infantry Regiment), Skierniewice (32 Infantry Regiment and 37 Regiment of Artillery, Łowicz (36 Infantry Regiment) and Kutno (19 Sapper Battalion and 11 Antitank Artillery Battalion). Commanders of this Infantry Division were in the years 1946–1949: Colonel Stanisław Habowski, Colonel Józef Bielecki and Colonel Józef Batkiewicz. The article describes organization of the 8th Infantry Division and changes in its structure in the years 1946–1949, higher military cadre, training and changes in units dislocation. History of the 8th Infantry Division in the Łódź region ended in 1949, when it was moved to the Central Pomerania.
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The article describes the organization and dislocation combat units subordinated undertakings command of Military District of Łódź, after the transition to peace organizations in September 1945. Initially, the most of them were 1 Training Division, which was renamed the 18 Infantry Division and moved to Bialystok in Warsaw Military District in November 1945. In its place, in September 1945 to the Łódź Military District transferred 2 Infantry Division, which had its garrisons in Częstochowa, Kielce, Piotrków Trybunalski and Radom. In addition, the Łódź Military District stationed several units of other weapons, such as: 1. Motorized Infantry Brigade in Łódź (disbanded in early 1946), 14. Anti-tank Artillery Brigade and 21. Reserve Artillery Regiment (created based on the Heavy Artillery Regiment 82. in Tomaszów Mazowiecki), 52. Self-propelled Artillery Regiment in Zgierz, 2. Brigade Engineer in Radom (in the summer of 1946 moved to the Warsaw Military District), 3. Communications Regiment in Zgierz (reorganized in the autumn of 1945 the 1st Regiment of Communications) and 2. Battalion Flamethrowers in Skierniewice. In the district stationed many units of the Air Force, which however, were subordinate directly to the Polish Army Aviation Command. Because of financial savings, the Łódź Military District was disbanded on the 30th of November 1946, however combat units which stationed on the territory of this district were subordinated to the commanders of other military districts.
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