SOVIET TROOP TRAINS AND KVP TRAINS

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• Publication Date: July 24, 1953
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CLASSIFICATIOPI_~'r s't(9e RpP 0"'
SECURITY INrFCFtiAATION
.Fast Gernany UUorec
-., Soviet Troop Trains and KVP Trains.
EVALUATION- see below ----PLACE OBIAINEl
MTE OF CONTENT
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DATE OBTAINED__ -.-DATE PREPARED July 1953
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C - Coach
CD - Converted Boxcar
B - Boxcar
F - Flatcar
G Gondola Car
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The following troop trains
tween 6 June
d 6
an
July 1953:
Date
Composition of From
To
Troop Trains
6 June
9 CB, 1 By 45 F Magdeburg
Blumenthal
9 CE, 2 By 39 F Magdeburg
Blumenthal
7 June
14 CB? 2 By #0 F Neuruppin
Neubukow
? 13, 12 F Frankfurt/Oder
P.ritzwralk
8 June
5 By 20 F Lieberose
Jueterbog
Altes Lager
55 cars Templin
12 CB9 5 By 38 F Nagdeburg
9 June 7 B, 35 F Wolrir=tedt
6 B, 33 F Haldensleben
52 cars Terinlin
6 CB, 4 L, 19 F Adel zow
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;? June 8 B, 24 F
.1-4 June 15 B, 45 F
l6 June 16 B, 35 F
5 B, 9 F
17 June 40 CBa 2 B,
86 axles
18 June 26 cars
21 June 7 B, 18 F
24 June 50 cars
104 axles
25 B, 20 F
26 June 1 CB, 28 F
I B, 11 F
lag 10 F
3 B, 14 F
2 B, 14 F
27 June 26 B, 15 F, 1C Werneuch.en
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2( : une Z7. B, 21 F
29, June
3 O t 16 F; eirpty Jueterbog
35 B., 12 F
4? cars
20 B 26 F
.ski cars
2x 0 B, 23 F
18 13, 27 F
)0 June 17 care
Welzoa
Brand
Altengrabow
Vogelsang
Lieberose
Jueterbog
Altes Lager
Kuestrin
Erect Litovsk
Brand
Finster. wa].de
Fra.n" f urt/Jder
40
Guben
Jueterbog
Zehdenick
J'ueterbog
Guben
it
Dessau
Frankfurt/icier
Frankfurt/Oder
Jueterbog,Altes Lager
Werneuch6n
Cottbus
Brand
Guben
Frankfurt/Oder
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Rathenow
Eberswalde
Brand
5 F, Neuruppin
Schwerin
Frankfurt/Oder
Schwer in
undetermined
Brand
filer neuchen
Koenigsbr ueck
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30 June 7 CB, 5 B, 35 F
38 cars
1 July 13 B,. 21 F
5 B, 17 F
13 B, 21 F; leer
11 B, 30 F
38 B, 10 F
2 July
8 B, 8 F
5 CB9 17 F; empty
1CBI, .6F
8 B, 24 F
8 B, 20 F; empty
3 July 5 CB55 B, 28 F
4 July 11 CB9 8 B, 30 F
8CB55B, 17F
7CB,'9B, 28 F
10 CB, 4 B, 36 F
6 July 26 F, 13 B
98, 37 F
29 cars
gtq in Composition of
June XVP Trains
2 boxcars and
1 flatcar
Templin
Werneuchen
Vogelsang
Templin
Mahlwinkel
Bernau
Jueterbog
Jueterbog
Tangerhuette
Wittenberg
Fuerstenwalde
Tangerhuette
Jueterbog
Neubukow
Kroepelin
Bad Doberan
Tangerhuette
Guben
Mahlwinkel
Tangerhuette
Pasewalk
Tangerhuette
Kuestrin
Kuestrin
Pasewalk
Forst Zinna
Magdeburg
Ruegen
Coswig
Fuerstenwalde
Rehagen-Klausdorf
Greifswald
railroad district
letween 2 and 19 June included:
From
Grossenhain
12 1 boxcar and Grossenhain
3 SSy-type flatcars
16 6 boxcars and
4 flatcars
To
Bergen
Neubrandenburg
Franks, -.:erg
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17 7 boxcars and Weisswasser Leipzig.
4 flatcars
18 10 boxcars and Weisswasser Halle
6 flatcars
19 9 boxcars and' Weisewasser Leipzig
12 flatcars
3. Military shipments identified
and 4 July included;
Ietween 21 June
Shi neat Frown '
21 June 46 cars with Frankfurt/Oder Faikenberg
Soviet escort personnel
45 cars with Frankfurt/Oder Falkenberg
Soviet escort personnel
142 cars with Frankfurt/Oder Faikenberg
Soviet escort personnel
40 cars with Frankfurt/Oder Faikenberg
Soviet escort personnel
1 boxcar and Cottbus; Falkenberg
9 SSy-type flatcars with
nine T-34 tanks
24 June 1 boxcar and
35 flatcars with
35 canvas-covered
vehicles
Frankfurt/Osier Falkenberg
43 cars with Brand Frankfurt/Oder
soldiers and trucks
142 cars with Welzow Frankfurt/Oder
soldiers and trucks
50 cars with Finstet walde Frankfurt/Odez
trucks and equipment
25 June about 40 cars with Finsterwalde Frankfurt/Oder
trucks and equipment
26 June about 42 cars with Brand Frankfurt/Oder
trucks and equipment
43 cars with Welzow Frankfurt/Oder
soldiers,
trucks and equipment
about 40 cars with Werneuchen Kuestrin
soldiers and
equipment
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2? June about 42 cars with.
soldiers,
trucks and equipment
28 June 42 cars with
soldiers,
trucks and equipment
1 boxcar and
28 flatcars with
22 canvas-covered
vehicles;
heavily guarded
29 June about 42 cars with
soldiers,
trucks and equipment
12 cars with
equipment and boxes
1 July 20 cars with
soldiers,
10 trucks and equipment
2 July 18 cars with
soldiers and
17 tanks
19 cars with
soldiers and
18 tanks
18 cars with
tanks
54 cars with
soldiers and
trucks
20 cars with tanks
1 troop train
3 July 1 troop train
4 July 1 troop train
1 troop train
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Werneuchen Kuestrin
Weizow Frankfurt/Oder
Frankfurt/Oder Falkenberg
Weizow Frankfurt/Oder
Cottbus Frankfurt/Oder
Falkenberg Frankfurt/Oder
Leisnig Ortrand
C}hemnitz Koenigsbrueck
Crina S chwepnit z
Frankfurt/Oder Falkenberg
Wurzen Schwepnitz
Rueckmarsdorf Schwepnitz
Rueckmarsdorf Schwepnitz
Dresden- Schwepnitz
Klotzsche
Bautzen Schwepnitz
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The following eastbound troop trains were observed-at the Kuestrin-Kietz
railroad station between 18 June and 2 July:
mite
26 June
Comi,osition of
Trooi Trains
34 , boxcar, probably with air force personnel
44 boxcars and
flatcars with
a troop unit
54 boxcars and
flatcars with
soldiers. and vehicles; 1 aircraft crate; 10 gasoline
containers; trucks and tank trucks; and I radio truck
48 boxcars and
flatcars with
air force personnel and vehicles
50 boxcars and
flatcars with
air force personnel and vehicles
I July
49 boxcars and
flatcars with
airforce personnel, vehicles, a Jet plane, and another
plane similar to a Fieseler Storch
47 boxcars and
flatcars with
air force personnel and vehicles
49 boxcars and
flatcars with
air force personnel and
39 boxcars and
flatcars with
air force personnel and
2 July
16 boxcars and
flatcars with
air force personnel and
Several of the above trains also carried aircraft engines packed in crates
painted blue-gray or grey green. 9
to Coimnent. It is believed that the troop trains
hauled headquarters units of the Third Shock Army,,
possibly signal units, to the command post exercises conducted in the
Rathenow area and extending to the Elbe River and toward north. See
The troop train from Frankfurt/Oder on 7 June 1953
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was also observed The troop 25X1
train o Vogelsang possibly
carried nine rocket launchers and motor vehicles, 25X1
This indicates that contingents of the Fourth Gds -.eez Army a so participated
in the;above command post exercise.
2. 1 l ;.mxcmmf. The receiving station indicates that the troop train 0 25X1
carried an AAA unit of the 12th Gds Tank Div,
The t-'oop train from Welzow probably transported
a melium air force AAA unit to Wustrow for combat firing practice o
3.F---1,,Cmmment? All troop trains probably carried light AAA units of the
Fourth Gds Mecz Army which were to conduct combat firing practices at
Jueterboga The troop trains are commented on as follows:
The train-is reported for the first time,
An AAA unit of the 7th Gds Mecz Div was probably loaded on the train,
I The trains were previously observed
hey possibly carried AAA units of the 25th Tank Div and/or
8th Gds Mecz Div,
The trains were previously reported
ithe first train, oweverr, with Wolmirstedt as dispatching
station and Halle as receiving station; and the other train as bound for the
Halle railroad district, 95AI
hese trains probably carried tank units of
the 21st Gds Mecz Div which returned to their home stations, However, Jueterbog
as receiving station proves that this version 25X1
was incorrect, It is oelievedd that the trains act ly went to Jueterbog via
Dessau which belongs to the Halle railroad district, and that the trains
probably carried AAA units of the 10th Gds Tank Div,
Probably AAA units of the 7th Gds Tank Div move from
Haldensleben to Jueterbog-Altes Lager,
5,ornnent According to observations in Eberswalde the train carried
elements of the 312th Gds RL Regt,
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6, Comment The train possibly carried a light air force AAA unit from 25X1
ran to Jueterbog-Altes Lager.
7. Coma-ens This troop train was previously observed.
It appears rather improbable that, 25X1
the train should have carried air force personnel only; all
the more as only- soldiers with red-bordered black epaulets were observed on
the train
8. I ommen& as the train was dispatched from
Icroepelin which is believed to be correct. 0
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9. JComment, These troop trains transferred the bomber corps of 6
regiments and 1 air force reconnaissance regiment previously stationed
in East Germany, Thus, the present report confirms the observations
that the IL-28 units vacated the airfields at Werneuchen, Brand, Welzow,
Finsterwalde and Jueterbog. It is assumed that all units transferred to
the USSR. Indications, however, are available only for units previously
10aCo On 22 May 1953, new rocket launchers from the USSR were
?tnat the former equipment was shipped to Jue~terbog. In late June 1953,
old rocket launchers were also shipped to Jueterbog by the 90th RL Regt
(US) from Schoenwalde,
U. [---Comment. The two troop trains probably carried contingents of the
rak Div which had been employed in Oranienburg during the riots on
and after 17 June 1953 and, returned to Templin, 25X1
12. Comment, The troop train with rom Vogelsang 25X1
to Mahlwinkel on 1 July 1953 was pruvlously o servec W another source. Still .
another source stated that, on 1 July 1953, two troop trains were dispatched
from the Templin troop training grounds. The present report indicates that
the movement included three trains. The troop train 25X1
observed being loaded at Bernau and passing through the Eberswalde railroad 25X1
station. It is believed that elements of the 3rd Er..gr Regt and 194th Engr
Bn of the 25th Tank Div moved from the Teraplin area to the Tangerhuette area
for field exercises on the western bank of the Elbe River.
134 Comment. The troop train probably carried tanks of the 6th Gds Tank Div.
14. [ Gpmment. On 2 July 1953, an unidentified unit the cz
Div moved from Fuerstenwalde to Magdeburg. 25X1
15o Comment, The troop train carried elements of the 148th Engr Bn
(US) of the 14th Gda Maacz Div to the Elbe River for field exercises. See
16, L_JCommentz These troop
trains carried medium AAA units of the 63rd
AAA Div (US) and 2nd Gds MA Div which returned to Fuerstenwalde and Rehagen-
Klausdorf respectively., 25X1
Comment, On 6 and 7 July 1953, the dispatching of several troop trains
grit components of the 9th Gds Tank Div from Neustrelitz to Jerichow was
reported th a source and by another source.1 _J 25X1
As the were not 25X1
reported in the reference report, the two troop trains to Jerichow in the
present report are probably observed for the first time.
18. Comment. By late June 1953, the bomber units previously stationed at
Werneuchen had vacated Werneuchen airfield,, Other observations stated that,
up to 10 July 1953, several MIG-15 arrived at Werneuchen airfield It
appears possible that the troop train belonged
to a rail movement in conjunction with a reoccupation of Werneuchen airfield
by a fighter unit.
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19a Comment. Probably shipments of tanks and materiel. KVP tank
repair shops are stationed in Grossenhain and Neubrandenburgo
20a Coimncnt The KVP trains carried units of TV 3000 and TV 6000 which
211, IIComment There are no indications whether the trains carried troops
or were loaded with materiel only.
22 ____L pert The train probably hauled tanks of the 9th Mecs Div to a
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repair she of the Third Gds Army in the Kummersdorf area via Falkenberga
Ito the RTO of this
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23 . F
1 Comment. The troop trains dispatched from Leisnig, Griinma, Wurzen
an uec rsdorf probably carried components of the 8th Gds Div and
the trains from D esden-Klotzsche and Bautzen contingents of the 11th Gds
Tank Div which returned to the Koenigebrueck troop training grounds after
termination of their employment during the riots in East Germany. Adequate
observations from several posts are available o The present report indicates
for the first time that, since about 18 June 1953, Soviet troops have also
been in Leisnig and Bautzeno The troop train from Chemnitz probably carried
elements of the 6tb Gds AAA Div tieh returned to Koenigabrueck for
continuation of combat firing practices., During 17 June 1953, the departure
of these troops from the Koenigabrueck troop training grounds was observed
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