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'''FIGURE 19. Szczecin strategic area (C)''' (map)

construction cranes. Major chemical plants produce sulfuric acid and superphosphate fertilizers. Other industries include meat and fish canneries, and large grain elevators. The city also has several large barracks and military storage areas. There are two airfields, one of which is military. At Swinoujscie, about 35 miles north, are two naval bases (one Polish and one Soviet) with munitions depots and barracks. The estimated storage capacity for refined petroleum products, excluding that available at the airfields, is 825,000 barrels.

5. Other important areas

In addition to the strategic areas, there are for areas of growing significance: Wroclaw (Breslau), Bydgoszcz-Torun, Poznan, and Radom-Kielce. Each is an industrial area, having installations manufacturing a wide variety of military and civilian products, and functions as a military center with extensive billeting and storage facilities and at least one military airfield. As transportation centers, all of the areas dominated regional transport networks, and two of them—Poznan and Wroclaw— occupy strategic positions astride internal routes leading to East Germany and Western Europe. Figure 21 provides a more detailed description of these areas.

F. Internal routes (C)

The selected internal routes (Figure 25) are the easiest avenues of movement between the major land approaches and the strategic areas, from the amphibious landing area near Kolobrzeg, and between the strategic areas. detailed information on the selected routes is presented in Figure 22. The offroad dispersal and vehicular cross-country movement data presented in Figure 22 describes the

'''FIGURE 20. The city of Szczecin at the mouth of the Oder river near the border of East Germany controls the flow of both oceangoing and river traffic into the central part of Eastern Europe (U/OU)''' (picture)

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