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The No. 1 Armoured Train; 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 Spanish Civil War saw a little use of armoured trains, though World War II (1939–1945) saw more. The French used them during the First Indochina War (1946–1954), a number of countries had armoured trains during the Cold War, and they were used during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
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.
During World War II, 12 Polish armoured trains in Britain were manned, from October 1940 until 1942, by the Polish Armed Forces in the West. They were assigned to patrol the British railways in 1940. They saw no combat and were disbanded in England by July 1943 (November 1944 in Scotland). [1] [2]
Krupp L2H43 [3] (bought from Germany before WW2) Armored trains and annex equipment. Armoured Train Number 11 "Danuta" Armoured Train Number 12 "Poznańczyk"
Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway armoured train, October 1940. During World War II, a miniature armoured train was used on the line to patrol the coast in case of invasion. The train consisted of No 5 Hercules and a few wagons fitted with armour plating and armed with a Boys anti-tank rifle and Lewis guns. [10] [41]
Type 94 Armored train Close up of Type 94 Armored train artillery car. The Type 94 Armoured train was built in 1934 and used by the Imperial Japanese Army forces during World War II. It originally consisted of 8 cars and later added an additional car, for a total of 9. For armament, it had two Type 14 10 cm AA guns and two Type 88 75 mm AA guns.
The armoured train Śmiały (Polish for Bold), sometimes PP 53 and officially Armoured Train number 53 was an armoured train of the Polish Army that saw significant action during the German Invasion of Poland in September 1939. The train in the end served under four flags—Austrian, Polish, Soviet, German—and fought in several wars from 1914 ...