Trains in WWII

I've got a feeling that the film footage may have been used in the 1970s documentary series World At War.

 

WWII Soldiers await Soo Line passenger train at Oshkosh, Wisconsin

 

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That is a beautiful shot. The lead gun carriage's weapon looks faintly like a Russian 76.2mm or 107mm gun. What are those long-barreled weapons mounted on turrets behind the first car?

 

Are you referring to the 105mm Le FH 18 auf Gw Lorraine Schlepper that looks like its gun is replaced by a 122mm F.H model 1938 Russian gun on the first car mentioned by Razin?

 

So it is a Russian gun and I am not seeing things. What are the guns carried in the cars behind the 122?

 

Mobility for Reich defense was the key, based in the Ruhrgebeit as well as in France mobil trains could easily fill the voids where permanent flak batteries could easily be pounded by the Allied air might. JC most probably these could be retro-fitted onto your 2nd page.

thanks to the Bundesarchiv

 

3.7cm Flak18.

 

Thanks for those Erich .

 

A few pics of the 105m and 128mm Flak guns on rail mounts and a 20m Flak mount
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Rare to see a photo of a radar on a Rail flat

Steve

 

Soviet Flak trains
http://www.airdefenseartillery.com/online/ADA%20In%20Action/WWII/WWII/RedFlak.pdf

 

JC have a surprise to add once I find the 2 pics .......

 

Looking forward to it .

 

Video , Flak train in action against ground targets in the East:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZqnkDemE_M



The guns are the 2cm Flak 30 and two 88mm Flak 36

 

The WR 550 D10 Diesel locomotive intended for the SP 42 armored train was rebuilt into an armoured engine (PZ 16) by adding gun platforms for Germans turrets (7,62cm F.K. 295/1) on both sides (here equipped with two additional T-34 on the platforms). With its powerful motor and 100mm side armor, it was the fastest and best armoured of the Germans armoured engins.
(Picture from "Germans armored trains on the Russian front 1941-1944" Wolfgang Sawodny, SchifferMilitary History book) ​

 

American Soldiers Returning from World War II by Train Members of the 32nd and 41st divisions of the 1st United States Infantry return to Fort Sheridan in Chicago, Illinois for their discharge. The train car, carrying some of the first soldiers to see action in the Pacific theater of war, displays their opinions regarding the General of the Army Douglas MacArthur.