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In the initial phase of the war the Japanese advanced north from Rangoon through Burma forcing Allied forces to retreat into the mountains on the Indian Burma frontier. In doing so, not only did the Japanese threaten India, but they denied use of the Burma Road to the Western Allies, who had been sending supplies to Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army (NRA) by that route.
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 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 ...
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.
Likewise a wartime motorised locomotive or Kriegsmotorlokomotive had a KML class number and a wartime electric locomotive or Kriegselektrolokomotive would have a KEL class number. Besides the DRG, the German Armed Forces had their own locomotive classes. A field railway locomotive belonging to the Army were known as a Heeresfeldbahnlokomotive ...
The United States Army Transportation Corps S160 Class is a class of 2-8-0 Consolidation steam locomotive, designed for heavy freight work in Europe during World War II.A total of 2,120 were built and they worked on railroads across much of the world, including Africa, Asia, all of Europe and South America.
The Russian locomotive class Ye, and subclasses Ye a, Ye k, Ye l, Ye f, Ye m, Ye mv and Ye s (Russian: Паровоз Е; Е а, Е к, Е л, Е ф, Е м, Е мв and Е с) were a series of 2-10-0 locomotives built by American builders for the Russian railways in World War I and again in World War II. They were lightweight engines with ...
Locomotive Yorkshire on the Chattenden and Upnor Railway These are narrow-gauge railways at military establishments and former UK Government-owned explosives sites. These locations were often subject to the Official Secrets Act and other government restrictions, so many of them are less well documented.