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During World War II, the Canadian high command implemented this armoured train for protection of the Canadian National Railway line between Prince Rupert, an important naval port for the Aleutian Island campaign, and Terrace, from potential attack by Japanese aircraft, submarines/gunboats, and infantry.
The following classes of Kriegslokomotive were procured by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and other customers (industrial and military railways) during the Second World War: Former Kriegslokomotive, rebuilt by Deutsche Reichsbahn Steam locomotives (Kriegsdampflokomotive or "KDL") DRB Class 52 (KDL 1) BMB Class 534.0 (KDL 2) [7] DRG Class 42 (KDL 3)
The Red Army had a large number of armoured trains at the start of World War II but many were lost in 1941. [33] Trains built later in the war tended to be fitted with T-34 or KV series tank turrets. [33] Others were fitted as specialist anti-aircraft batteries. [33] A few were fitted as heavy artillery batteries often using guns taken from ...
Preserved command car of German World War II era armoured train BP-44 from the railway museum in Bratislava. The BP-42/44 armored train was designed explicitly for anti-guerilla warfare. [14] In addition to various anti-partisan and pacification actions, Germans employed armored trains to secure their rail transportation networks. [14]
A Pullman-built troop sleeper at the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum.. In United States railroad terminology, a troop sleeper was a railroad passenger car which had been constructed to serve as something of a mobile barracks (essentially, a sleeping car) for transporting troops over distances sufficient to require overnight accommodations.
Allied Military Locomotives of the Second World War, R. Tourret, Tourret Publishing, ISBN 0-905878-06-X. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
German military transport was mostly dependent on trains and horses in World War II. Railway sabotage during World War II was among the difficulties. Leaders also used military trains, for example Adolf Hitler's Amerika and Hermann Goering's Asien. Trains were protected by railcars armed with anti aircraft guns or flak waggon.
Such trains and the tracks cleared for their use were marked with red balls. The term grew in popularity and was extensively used by the 1920s. The need for such a priority transport service during World War II arose in the European Theater following the successful Allied invasion at Normandy in June 1944.