Name day: Euzebia, Eustachy
Sunrise 6:34 am; sunset 6:56 pm; average air temperature: 14°C
Slightly cloudy; Vistula river level: 55 cm



          The Warsaw Home Army Corps under the command of Brigade General Antoni Chruściel "Monter" ("Assembler") is formed.
          The Home Army Headquarters and the Headquarters of Sub-districts disclose the names of their officers, thus coming out of conspiracy.

          Heavy fights in Czerniaków. The remnants of the "Radosław" unit and the Berlinger's troops repel German attacks along Wilanowska Street.
          At night Lieutenant Colonel Jan Mazurkiewicz "Radosław" together with a group of 200 soldiers, who are unable to fight but who can still walk, retreat from Powiśle Czerniakowskie to Mokotów through the sewers.
          The others, shelled by tanks and heavy guns, desperately defend their last positions.
          That same night, a group of injured soldiers and insurgents rows across the Vistula River to the Praga bank.

          The Germans eliminate the landing forces near Poniatowski Bridge. The majority of the soldiers are killed in the fights lasting the whole day, others re-cross the Vistula River.

          The Commander of the Sub-district II of Żoliborz issues an order with regard to the landing of the 2nd Infantry Division of the Polish First Army. In the order, the Commander suggests that the relationships with the Polish Army should be based on the principle of precaution.
          The insurgents were already aware of incidents of arresting soldiers and disarming Home Army troops by Soviet partisans in the territory of the former Eastern Borderlands.

          Another group of soldiers from the 6th Infantry Regiment arrives to reinforce the beachhead near Kępa Potocka in Żoliborz.

          The Germans set up a heavy mortar on the premises of the Technology University.

          The Special Military Court for Warsaw-South sentences an officer under the pseudonym of "Pomorski", the commander of a self-proclaimed unit, to death for "carrying out illegal executions, maltreating prisoners and plundering of private property."

edited by: Maciej Janaszek-Seydlitz

translated by: Beata Murzyn