SECOND LIEUTENANT JAN BOŁBOTT FIGHTING IN “TYNNE” SECTION

In the presented article, for the first time for many years, there have been made a partial analysis of events in „Tynne” section after the Soviet invasion on Poland on the 17^th of September 1939. Based on many sources, the author undertook a verification of the adjudications referring to the question, where the district “Tynne Wieś” commander, 2^nd Lieut. Jan Bołbott was during the fights, where, when and how he died. The author based on: the report of “Tynne” sector commander, Capt. Edmund Emil Markiewicz, reports of other soldiers of fortress battalion KOP “Sarny”, who survived the war and other people, as well as archival sources that he got to and field research. According to the new adjudications, 2^nd Lieut. Jan Bołbott during the fights was in pillbox No. 4 “Pies”, located just by the Słucz River, near to the ferroconcrete bridge (“the small bridge”), which had not been damaged before the Red Army’s attack. It is accepted, that in the casemate the commander of “Tynne Wieś” had fallen with its crew during the Soviet sappers’ assault on the casemate. However, it cannot be excluded, that he survived the storm and was executed at the area of Sochaki forest, Berducha farm or somewhere else. It was determined, that the assault occurred on the 19^th of September 1939, probably at the forenoon.

The conclusions and hypothesis from the article ought to be verified. The first research has already been conducted by Stowarzyszenie “Wizna 1939” and these adjudications are partly confirmed.

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