SOVIET SUPPLY SHIPMENTS AND TROOP TRAINS
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January 20, 1954
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! Topic_
Soviet Supply Shipmeniel and Troop. Trains
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East Germany
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CB - Converted Boxcar
B - Boxcar
F - Flatcar
S3y - Heavy-Duty Flatcar
RRym - Heavy-Duty Flatcar
1. Supply shipments passing through the Seddin railroad station between 17 November
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17 November
15 December
16 December
22 December
EP,211==127_24Ea fro,
5 F with nine
rocket launchers
undetermined with
16 new trucks
undetermined with
seven armored scout cars
undetermined with
15 new trucks
2. The following shipments were observed at
6 November and 21 December:
pats_
6 November
10 November
NumbIrrof Cars
1 B, 5 F with 10 new
armored scout cars;
escorted by XV? personnel
Fuerstenwalde
Frankfurt/Oder
Erfurt
Frankfurt/Oder
the Oranienburg
2 B, 10 F with 10 M-3
armored personnel carriers;
escorted by XV? personnel
AO
Satzkorn
Oranienburg
Berlin-Pankow
Oranienburg
freight station between
1
Oranienburg Erfurt
Oranienburg Belle
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11 November
12 November
4. December
7 December
8 December
13 December
18 December
21 December
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listszraLgime
1 B? 8 F with 8 14,3
armored personnel carriers;
escorted by XV? personnel
2 B, 19 F with 16 Ple3
armored personnel carriers;
escorted by XV? personnel
1 B, 6 F with 6 Mr...3
armored personnel carriers;
escorted by KVP personnel
60 F with 60 new trucks
16 -F with
16 new trucks
60 F with
60 new trucks
26 F with
26 new trucks;
unloaded by KVP
15 F with
15 new trucks;
unleaded by ICVP
60 F with
60 new trucks;
unloaded by KVP
personnel
personnel
personnel
Ezell
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Oranienburg
Oranienburg
Oranienburg
Frankfurt/Oder -
border station
Jueterbog
Frankfurt/Oder
border station
Frankfurt/Oder
border station
Frankfurt/Oder
border station
Frankfurt/Oder
border station
3. On 5 December, seven flatcars with seven M-13 rocket launchers,
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Erfurt
Erfurt
Erfurt
Sachsenhausen
Templin
Sachsenhausen
Oranienburg
Oranienburg
Oranienburg
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sidetracked at the Bernau railroad station. -1-
2
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4. On 21 December, a shipment of about 60 new trucks was observed at the Oranienburg
freight station. KVP personnel prepared the unloading. 2
5. On 7 and 8 December, 10 14-31 rocket launchers and 9 M-31 rocket launchers respec-
tively were unloaded at the Jueterbog-Altes Lager railroad station. 1
6. On 29 December, a shipment of 1 T-34 tank, 8 x 76.2.4nm field guns and 4 x 107-mm
artillery pieces was dispatched from Jueterbog to Wustermark. 3
7.. Trains loaded by order of the Soviet in the 2nd Subdistrict of the Berlin railroad
district between 17 and 30 December included:
Pasta=
17
18
21
22
23
25
26
30
2 CB 3 B, 1 F
2 CB
3 CB,
1 GB,
1 CB,
5 CB,
CR,
2 B, 2 SSy
12 B, 3 F
13 B
4 B, 3 F
21 B, 3 F
4 B, 2 F
L2AdiAgegIral2D
Jueterbog-Altes Lager
Wuensdorf
Jueterbog-Altes Lager
ft
ft
It
1 CB, 2 B, 28 F (transitworthy)
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8. Supply shipments dispatched to Potsdam betw n 11.. and 28 December included:
19 boxcars with military goods consigned to I and 19 refrigera-
tor cars with meat and food supply consignedto
9. The following military shipments were listed in railroad records between 19
and 28 December:
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12.42.111 lisnliNr_sregsra
kelt=
19 37 B;
shipment-record No 355/3691
25 7 P with prime movers
2 F with " il
5 F " le e
3 F " tt ft
3 F " tt n
2 F " e n
2 F " If fl
2 F " nI,
2 F " tt It
28 2 Bo 7 REym with military
personnel and artillery pieces
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Frankfurt/Oder
Brandenburg
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Wildpark
n
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1,
WiIdpark
IQ
Satzkorn
Cottbus )
)
Schwerin )
)
Nhgdeburg )
)
Halle )
)
Eberswalde )
)
Brandenburg )
)
Falkensee )
)
Schoenefeld )
)
Kirchmoeser )
FUerstenwalde
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10. On 30 December,. a train of 14 coachas with Soviet dependents was dispatched
from Frankfurt/Oder via Kospenick.
11. On 30 December, a shuttle-train of 40 winterized converted boxcara was to be
made available at Rummelsburg to be dispatched to Brest Litovek. 7
25X1A 12. On 1 and 4jannaey, a train of 12 coaches each with Soviet dependents was dia-
patched to Nhgdeburg. The train came fram Brest Litovsk via Frankfurt/Oder. *
13. On 5 January, eight railroad cars with 3 x 76.2-mm 215-3 artillery pieces each
were loaded at the DallgoweDoeberitz railTnad mtAtinn Thai avtillorv tAcinma
were hauled one after the other by trucked
bleb came from the direction of Hamburger Chaussee.
14.
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Troop trains passing through the Wustermark railroad station during the night
of 28 December and on 5 January included:
Emm-
Rata
Pannattismat
=mitaInn
28 December 3-13 with
? .military pereonnel;
3 D with
military goods; and
4 F with six trucks.
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5 January
5 B, 9 F with
military personnel and
26 x 76.2-mm artillery
pieces
Velten Neubuchow.4
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Doeberitz Dannenwalde 94/020
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15.
Troop trains from Falkenberg to Neubrandenburg identified from
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railroad records
on 5 and 7,, Janumry included: a train of 41 cars,
on 25X1A-
5 January; and a train of 52 cars,
on 7 JantlarY?
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1.
of rocket
1.......61Mato The shipments aro connected with the present reequipment
launcher unt4:. The shint reported in Paragraph 3 was confirmed
with the same
and probably went to Jueterbog or Ebergwalde.
2. LIgtmud. The trains carried armored vehicles and mnter vehicles
distribUted to various KVP units. which were25X1A
3.
0t. The observations ia zAraaraph 13 and the train withI
in paragraph 14 are ',actual-1:y confir4ing and indicate that 76.2-mm AT
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igi 6.
guns were turned in* by the 2nd Light Arty Brig (US) at the prdnance collecting
depot ofthe Second .Gds Nbce Army at Damnenwalde. In connection with the arrival
of heavy AT guns from the USSR e
and with other reports it is believed that the 75-eam AT guns of Soviet AT
artillery units are bin a 1,,,p1aced by AT guns of 85 Vm.
galmant. The cpmpositicm of Vic traasitworthy train of 30 December 1953 and
.s spatching station indicete that mctor vehicles or heavy weapons were dis-
patched to the USSR. Az Jueterbeg is known as collecting point of rocket launchers
(see paragraph 5)p.the train may have also carried rocket launchers. There are no
other lndications? however, that rocket launchers were shipped to the USSR. Sea
also Field Comment 1.
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t. belongs to the political administration of the GOFG.
is ateigned to the main ration supply depot of the GOFG at Satzkorn.
PolmanA The prime movers probably belonged to the IV Arty Corps and were
either turned in or distributed. The receiving stations do not indicate where-
about and employment. For information on arrival,
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7,
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pment at the ordnance collecting point
of the GOFG.
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8,
dependents has been confirmed from
C reW!. The avrival vf Soviet officers'
num rous posts.
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V ?
Oselent. Compare with another .report
by the save source in
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:71MERABIL.I indicate that tho troop train possibly carried
un air force ua't. According to belonging to the transportation control
office of the Second Gd m Nees Army, ed the dispatching and receiving station,
it is also poseible that a unit of the 31st AAA Div (US) moved to the Wustrow
AAA Range. -
is possible tha
is reported for the first timc. It
or troop trains has been replaced by
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