one thing to think of is artillery delivered mines. both sides would have used them, if they still had any left. at Kalisz the 5th would have used them to cover the break out. the Soviet/ poles to stop them getting away.
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"There is only one tactical principal which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wounds, death and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time."
--General George S. Patton, Jr.
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