Send in the Tankettes*
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Date: September 19, 1939*
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Battle Location: Sierakow, Poland*
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Battle Type: Poland delay vs Germany advance.*
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Description: On the night of 18/19 September battle weary Polish cavalry previously engaged in the fighting at the Bzura river bend reached the village of Sierakow and in a sharp action ejected the German troops occupying it.*
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The following morning a German armoured counterattack by elements of  Panzer Regiment
11 developed. To meet them the Polish commander ordered forward his only remaining armour, the survivors of the 71st Armoured Battalion Recce Squadron - a platoon of light tanks commanded by the able officer cadet Roman Orlik.* 
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Source: Forty, G: Tank Aces.*
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Design by:  Ulf Lundstrom.**

