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Piłsudczyk (Polish pronunciation: [piwˈsutt͡ʂɨk], pron. Peewsudchyk) was a Polish armoured train of the early 20th century. It was among the first armoured trains serving the Polish Army and took part in the Polish-Ukrainian War of 1918-1919, the subsequent Polish-Soviet War and the Silesian Uprisings .
Armored train "Danuta" in 1939. Armored trains of Poland mostly date to the World War I period. Many of them were modernized over the next two decades, and took part in most military conflicts of the Second Polish Republic, namely the Greater Poland Uprising, the Polish-Ukrainian War, the Polish-Bolshevik War, the Silesian Uprisings and the Polish September Campaign in World War II.
Piłsudczyk (armoured train), a Polish armed train of the early twentieth century This page was last edited on 24 May 2020, at 23:20 (UTC). Text is available under ...
Armoured Train Number 12 "Poznańczyk" Armoured Train Number 13 "Generał Sosnkowski" Armoured Train Number 14 "Paderewski" Armoured Train Number 15 "Śmierć" Armoured Train Number 51 "Pierwszy Marszałek" Armoured Train Number 52 "Piłsudczyk" Armoured Train Number 53 "Śmiały" Armoured Train Number 54 "Groźny"
The train was armed with 4-6 French 75 mm Schneider field canons, 2 German 105 mm fieldhowitzer, arranged on open platforms, it had 2 armoured cars armed with 4-16 German 7,92 mm Maxim 08/15 machine guns. Part of the train was taken over by Poles during false flag operation of Żeligowski's Mutiny and made into Polish armoured train "Jan ...
Piłsudczyk (armoured train) Polish armoured train units in Britain; Poznańczyk (armoured train) S. Śmiały (armoured train) Smok Kaszubski This page was last ...
These included the only miniature railway armoured train ever created on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway. [ 5 ] The armoured trains were formed in July 1940 as part of the preparations to face a German invasion ; these were initially armed with QF 6 pounder 6 cwt Hotchkiss guns and six Bren Guns, by Royal Engineer crews and manned by ...
The following day, Polish Uhlans captured the railway station and the town of Siniaŭka, capturing a military train in the process. [7] At the same time, a technical squadron destroyed bridges, disrupting the traffic between Baranavichy and Luninyets .