First note: The cantonment is located near the ruins of Bogatynia. The town was flattened by Fuel-Air Explosive bombs to break up concentrations Polish troops backed by Czech armor in one of the last massed air-raids of Summer, 2000. The air raid was conducted with a (relatively) large number of German F4 Phantoms operating from stretches of Autobahn that had been cleared and prepared as runways dropping CBU-55 and CBU-72 fuel-air cluster bombs on the town. For a full twenty minutes, four flights of four Phantom jets scourged the area. All were equipped for air-to-ground missions as they expected (and received) no challenge from enemy fighters.
This left Bogatynia a burning ruin, with special attention given to the coal-fired powerplant operating there. During the run up to the July 2000 offensive, the unit I'm building moved in and occupied the surrounding area; the Polish and Soviet military units were dead or gone, as were Czech formations.
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