SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

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`tae 5th and 6th er oments in paragraph were i nusiv-Worted
~h,he 6th shirdnart .:i c para. raph 10, was previously reported
CB. converted L-oxc&r
E.- boxcar .. F
F> flatcar
SSy-- heavy duty "flstt..ar
RRyw heavy-duty flatcar
Troop, tr iris frc5r. a4urzen to Rtioederau
ineLuded: a train of 47 boxcars on 24 September; aryl a
train o x ar_e Arid aiother; train of 22 .boxcars on 25 September)
2. On October. g troop trains were identified
Composition oP' -
Tons
'I'ro~ ~...Tra.inw
11 CL', 2 B,
910
25F
11 GB, .2 B,
930
42 F
9 CD 9 2B Q
857
34 F
CBS 3 B,
try F
1$271
C13 , 2 B,
'837
33 .F
From
Altengrabow. 'Halle rail--
`"oad dis--
trict
Kroepelin Jena
Altengrabow Halle
railroad
district
, Neuhukow - Jena
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the following railroad
cars were to made available at Jueterbog-Al tes Lager between.
end 16 Octoters
Date in Octotrer Number ofQatp
'0 35 CB, 4 B, 135 F
14 3 CB, 17 B, 5 F
8 CF.44 B,, 4 F
13B, 1 F
2 CE, 5B, 1F
troop trains from Altengrabow tc Wile-
park on and October ineludedh a train of vented boxcai s,.
26 boxcars and 6 flatcars, on 12 Octcbec-s
_Y
rted boxcars, 17 boxcars and 37 flatcars,
Date in Composition of
Wil.dpart
sty
a4 30 B, 21 F Wildpark Stendal
B Magdeburg Brest shuttle trai
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l and another train of 35 converted re, R2
ioxcars #n 14 type flatcars, on l;- C=c;to
Troop trains from Jueterbog-Altes sager
10 and 11 October included a train of 10 converted boxcars.,. 3 boxcars
and 23 flatcars to Dallgow-Poeberitz,5 and another train of 1 boxcar
and 11 flatcars to Grossenhiain (C-3) on 10 October; and a train o 21
converted boxcars, 31 flatcars and 24 Rely type flatcars to Dallgow.
Doeberitz on 11 Octotero5
6? troop trains
and 15 coer
October-, Troop rains.
12 5 GB, 17 B, 38 F Altengrabow
9 CB,, 12 B, 14 RRym
13 21 B, 30 F Potsdam
15 54 0 1 eimar
:Litovsk
7. The following railroad cars were to be made available on 14 and '__
October:
Date in Number of Assembling
Octo,,, Cars Station Station
14 1 Bs, 23 SSy . Gruenau
Receiving
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Li:-t cunt ?d from.
15
Perlin railroad disti?icto The cars were to 'ce dispatched to Erfurt,,9
8CB,1Bg4F
ICL, 6 F
flatcars were to be assembled) by all railroad subdistrict offices of
prior to 2.6 Uctoterp nu~rers, u >
Date in Conposition of
Octoter `!'root Trains
6 41 B with
soldiers
52 cars with
artillery
pieces and
trucks
7 31 cars with .chwepnitz ;,Jurzen
-"tanks
E 42 care a Mus]cau
34 cars with
tanks;
5 F with five
T=-134 tanks
46 errs with Koenigebrueck Wurzen
artillery pieces
and trucks
52 cars with " Nieder-Oderwit
artillery pieces
and trucks
34 cars with tanks Schwepnitz heissen
Jueterbog-Altes Wildpark
Lager
F uerstenwald e
From To
Frankfurt/Oder Jueterbog
Koenigsbrueck Bad Berke
10 5 Fe 2 B. five
T-34 tanks
28 cars with tanks
31 " fA i5 &9
27 er a is is
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Eilenburg
Leipzig;
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10,, The following troop trains were observed at the Frankfurt/Oiler rams---
road station between 5 and 1e October:
Date in
October
Composition of
Troou Trains
6 express coaches with Brest Litovsk Muellrose
about 120 officers
wearing blue epaulets
9 10 SSy with Lieberose Fru nkfurt/(3e
10 JS-n tanks, including
10 SSy with
10 JS-3 tanks
10 SSy with
10 J&3 tanks
Fuerst kids
14 16 SSy, 1 F with Frankfurt/Oder
16 JS-3 tanks and
1 radio truck
52 B with soldiers direction of Kuestrin
Cottbus
11. the following leave trains ruttleddaily
between Frankfurt Oder and Brest Litovsk., leaving Frankfurt/Oiler, a
train at 8:45 a.m., and the ELue Express at 4:10 p.m.; and arriving
from Brest. Litovsk, a train at 5:31 a.m., and the Blue Express at
10:55 aomo Daily feeder train left Magdeburg and Berlin at 5--10 a,:m~A
and Schwerin at 5.-31 a.m. Prior to 10 October, an additional leave
train left Frankfurt/Oder daily at noon, and arrived from Brest Litovsk
at 2:37 p.m.. This train, however, was dropped from the schedule
Since about 5 October, the volume of dd ly leave traffic considerably
decreased. EM on leave are not admitted to the Blue Expresso
1. Comment. The dispatching of three troop trains from Wurzen on
September 1953 was previously observed twice.
It i~,; assumed that theirains carried elements of the 20th Gdm
Mecz Regt of the 8th Gds Mecz Div which participated in field exec
cises beginning in the Grossenhain-Elsterwerda area on t out 26 Sep.
tember 1953 and extending to the Koenigsbrueck area.
2. I J Comment. These th=e troop trains previously reported to have
been loaded in the Magdeburg railroad district.
They possibly carried elements of the 43d Army Arty Brig of the Eighth
Gds Army or contingents of the IV Arty Corps to field exercises of the
Eighth Gds Army,
3. Comment On 7 October 1953, the troop train
went from Neubukow to Rudolstadt.
C mment The troop trains
from Altengrabow to Wildpark probably carried componentt of
the h Art Div (US) back to their home station. Th ain
Iwas previously reportedo
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The movement of the troop
train from the Potsdam railroad sta1:iox
to Wild park, and the unit probatly Transferred to . Stendal on the troop
traini cannot definitely be i aterpretedn
5, Cor~r~ez to Troops returning from a two-day firing practice at
Jueterbog on 10 Octoi:er 1953 included: elements of the 2d Light Arty
Tria ` to Doeb ritz on the troop trra.ins
on the troop trai
6. ron ant , The shuttle-trains reported in are ;?a., (. are the first
of this kind with the previously known cam
served in the fall of 1953. The troop train to hues rin re ?or :1.n param
graph 10 possibly was identical with shuttle-trai :reports;
from the Cottbus and Berlin railroad districts Ix eviousiy .n :catec tie
beginning of the repatriation movement of dischargees.
70 I Comr.?ent. On 14 October 19539 tanks of the 7th Gds "ecz Div a.ro=
bably were to be withdrawn from Berlin-Karlshorst.
8 , r--lCormzent o The troop train prof r tly
card the same unidentified unit tack to Potsdam which, on Cctoter
1953. moved from Wildvark to Jueterbog on the troop train
Corvnen The flatcars probably were to Le used for return th ip-
r;ents of units which had participated in maneuvers of the Eighth CA 'Is
Army in the Chrdrufm Jena-Rudolstin dt area.
10. L_LConment. If the 41 boxcars actually carried military per.-on.-el,,
the train possibly was the first sb,ipment of ref lacements from the il:sSR
observed in the fall of 19530
110 1 Comment,, Lad Berka is located in the area where the Eighth ':ccs
rr- started maneuvers on 10 October 1953. However, the artillery unit
loaded at Bad Lerka cannot be identified from this inforrrationo
120 4L 0. l?lost of the troop trains probably carried componer.t,s of
the 8th Gds Mecz Div which returned to their home station in iurz?YA.
Eilenturg and Leipzig. The troop trains dispatched to Meissen pos-dil-ly
carried contingents of the 9th Tank Div and/or 45th Gds Tank :he t o .-f'
the 11th Gds Tank Dive As t"e Fcrnitz railroad station is located be-
tween P.iesa and Osehatz, the troop train to Bornitz probably carried
tanks of the 9th Tank Div tack to their hone station. The NiedFer-
Odex,witz railroad station is located north of ittau; the -rnoveriar l. of
a Soviet army unit to this area cannot yet be interpreted,,
The three trains on 9 October 1953 were previously observe&
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13o Cor:rrenta The troop trains were loaded with tanks of the 7th Gds