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| Name and Estimated Population (Jan. 1973) | Remarks |
|---|---|
| Wroclaw
536,000 |
Fourth largest city. Major rail center of southwest Poland; major inland port on Oder River, serving vessels of up to 5.3-foot draft; ship and railroad repair facilities. Storage for an estimated 307,000 barrels of refined petroleum products (excluding that stored at airfields). Several powerplants and a combined capacity of 204,300 kilowatts. Headquarters of military district and air defense zone, ammunition storage, billeting facilities for 15,000 troops, one military and one civilian airfield, telecommunications center. Industries produce electric locomotives, railroad passenger cars, seagoing and river vessels, trucks, buses, trailers, military vehicles, recoilless guns and anti-tank missile launchers, ammunition for aircraft cannon and small arms, fuses for shells and bombs. Also manufactures machine tools, road construction machinery, electronic and electrical equipment, chemicals, and synthetic fibers. |
| Bydgoszcz
290,000 |
Significant port on a major canal linking Vistula and Oder rivers, serving vessels up to 5.3-foot draft; ship repair facilities; important road and rail junction and major railroad repair shops. Headquarters of military district and air defense zone, a major air force base, military depots, ammunition storage, and large billeting facilities. One of country's largest producers of propellants and explosives; a major loader of artillery shells, hand grenades, and mines; producer of detonators, fuses, ammunition, and hand grenade casings. A major producer of electrical and telecommunications equipment, road construction machinery, and consumer goods. |
| Torun
134,000 |
Port of Vistula River, regional road and rail junction. Large warehouses, and storage facilities to ammunition and refined petroleum products; extensive billeting facilities. A major producer of electrical, electronic, and telecommunications equipment. Manufactures hoisting, shipboard, and earthmoving machinery, chemicals, fertilizers, textiles, and synthetics; producer of processed food. |
| Poznan
478,000 |
Fifth largest city. Most important road and rail junction in western Poland; major railroad repair shops. Center of rich agricultural area and commercial, telecommunications, and industrial center. Billeting for 13,000 troops; two major military airfields. The principal manufacturer of marine main diesel engines, electric locomotives, air compressors, specialized railroad cars, tires, tubes, chemicals, and consumer goods. Industrial output also includes agricultural machinery, machine tools, ball bearings, and machine guns. Storage facilities for 315,000 barrels of refined petroleum products (excluding that available at airfields). |
| Kielce
135,000 |
A major producer of ball bearings, spark plugs, ignition coils, detonators and other ammunition components. Metalworks assembles dump truck and tanker bodies, hoisting mechanisms, and special-purpose vehicle bodies; major alumina works. |
| Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski
52,000 |
A major iron and steel plant producing pig iron and crude and rolled steel. |
| Pionski
15,000 |
A major chemical works producing propellants and explosives. |
| Radom
161,000 |
Telephone equipment plant supplies about 40% of country's total output, partly for military use; small arms plant; major military airfield |
| Skarzysko Kamienna
41,000 |
Largest ammunition manufacturing and loading plant, producing post of Poland's small arms ammunition; also loads mines, aerial bombs, mortar and artillery shells. |
| Starachowicz
45,000 |
Largest truck plant, producing about one-third of national truck output; also manufactures diesel truck engines; large iron smelting plant. |
terrain adjacent to the route selected; data for cross-country movement away from these routes is given in Figure 5.
G. Approaches
The perimeter of Poland consists of 305 miles of coastline and 1,922 miles of land boundaries (Figure 23). Poland claims territorial waters for 3 nautical miles and fishing rights to 12 nautical miles (U/OU)
1. Land (C)
Developed transportation facilities in the land approaches are good. Roads are mostly two- or four-lane bituminous or four-lane divided concrete; railroads are 4'8½" gauge and single or double track in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Railroads in the U.S.S.R. are 5'0" gauge, but transloading facilities to 4'8½" gauge are generally available at the border. Offroad dispersal is generally unrestricted. Cross-
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