Battle of Pęcice

The Battle of Pęcice - the fight delivered on 2 August 1944 by military units of Armia Krajowa, belonging to the 4th Ochota Sub-district (of Armia Krajowa) during the Warsaw Uprising.

In the night from 1 to 2 August 1944 the majority of military units of the Ochota Sub-district, commanded by second lieutenant Mieczysław Sokołowski pseudonym "Grzymała", began to withdraw from Ochota in the direction of Sękocin forest and Chojnowo forest. On 2 August at 5 a.m. the concentrated units set off from the region of Reguły village via Pęcice in the direction of the forests. German military units were stationed in the manor-house of Pęcice. The distance from Reguły to Pęcice amounted to ca 2km. The site conditions of the march of the insurgent units were unfavourable from operational point of view. It must have been passed ca 1 km of a field road leading by a slant to Pęcice and then a next 1 km section of the way leading on a dike along a broad, here and there wet meadow. The enemy had favourable conditions of observation and fire of the approaching Polish units. In the moment when Polish units were on the dike, there appeared cars with German troops. A fight emerged, sounds of which alarmed the German units stationed in the Pęcice manor-house. The well-placed and well-ranged German units stroke with well-aimed machine-gun fire the column of insurgent units, which divided itself in two parts: three scout bataillons attacking along the road and containing the main enemy force, and the main forces of the insurgent concentration, which, under cover of that attact, by-passed Pęcice from the right side and reached the Sękociny forests, and then the Chojnowo forests. The units attacking Pęcice directly, suffered heavy lossess of casualties and prisoners. On 2 August the Germans executed the prisoner insurgents in the brick-yard in Pęcice.