SOVIET TROOP TRAINS

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• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 22, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Soviet Troop "'rains
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Accordir to an ai1et edly coMplete list of troop trains in the area. of
the Erfurt railroad district,, the following* troop trains were identified
in this di ctr1_ct between 12 and 28 March 1952:
Composition of
Troop Trains
3 converted boxcars
and 14 flatcars
6 converted boxcars,,
26 boxcars and
23 flatcars
3 converted boxcars ~
3 boxcars and
8 flatcars
12 converted boxcars,
3 boxcars and
32 flatcars
13. converted boxcars,
4 bo_-%:co.-!.cars and
16 flatcars
2 converted boxcars,
.1 boxcar and
5 flatcars
11 converted boxcars,,
2 boxcars attd
22 flatcars
2 converted boxcars,
1 boxcar and
12 flatcars
2 converted boxcars
3 boxcars, and
6 flatcars
Treerane to
unkn mm
25 ''arch
`7eir ar to
unknown
25 March
',,-ci: ar to
anknovn
25 "'arch
2?.~+ji. ar o
unkn civin
25 "arch
"ae. 3i^ra to
.. i.1dnark
25 .arch
Pcurup-r_, n to
:' t=irar
25 !"arch
,,lte n , rab ow
to PaunburC
25 ;'arch.
Fad Dibra to
Fuersten tie rg;
26 "larch
Ohrdruf to
V olmirstedt
27 Parch
Gera to
Oh rd ruf
27 T'arch
Apolda to
Dresden
28 "arch
2p The fe1lotiinC nurhers of `'nviot iii.tary, personnel r,ore observed a card
leave trains in 'rankfurt/eder t:etiveen 27 and 31 ?'arch:
Date
To Wrest Litovsk
27 Parch
270
and
260
2a 7a rch
2
50
and
270
29 "arch
7
240
i nd
2810
30 ...arch
200
and
260
31 "''arch
250
and
200
rrnr! .rest I itovsk.
240 and 260
260 and 250
270 and 250
250 and 240
ri
260 and 250
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25X1 Gorr:ent? The troop trains betr.non 12 and 2E
;:arch ,2 indicate the f ollowin tree Fain ;. overients;
25X1 a first movement consi.sti_n,- of a series of rotation shipments between
military rests in the area of the i i hth rids Army and the Chrdruf troop
training grounds; a second m(werier t of troop trains carrying tanks to
the ]Letzlin x Meath, AA guns to ',-ustrorr, and artillery to A1ten`rahow
some units of - h,i ch have already, returned to their hone stations after
short periods of firing practice; and a third movement containing a
series of troop trains returning from the cormaiid post exercise n the
area north est ml.' i'aumburg and south of. the . ?arz Mountains terminated
on a )out 20 March 1952 0 ?.,`he trot ps were entrained at the ra lroad stations
of .iordhausen, 'Tohenebra, Sondershausen, 1leicherode, "'tiehlhauson,
P'au burg, '3ad Dibra, T,rfurt and :ieinar, on a total of ) 3 trains between
1.9 and 26 March 3.952, Further troop shipments from the 'nunburg area
nay take place after 26 ?'arch 1952, as a large. number of telephone lines
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