The German military leadership regarded armored trains at the beginning of world war two as an outmoded weapon. The offensive action of the few such trains which they still had in the first two war years seemed to confirm this opinion. However, they developed an active and not at all unsuccessful combat application during the German advance. They provided a new and very important field of operations for the German armored train, that of securing railroad lines.
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German Armored Trains on the Russian Front 1941-1944
The German military leadership regarded armored trains at the beginning of world war two as an outmoded weapon. The offensive action of the few such trains which they still had in the first two war years seemed to confirm this opinion. However, they developed an active and not at all unsuccessful combat application during the German advance. They provided a new and very important field of operations for the German armored train, that of securing railroad lines.
The German military leadership regarded armored trains at the beginning of world war two as an outmoded weapon. The offensive action of the few such trains which they still had in the first two war years seemed to confirm this opinion. However, they developed an active and not at all unsuccessful combat application during the German advance. They provided a new and very important field of operations for the German armored train, that of securing railroad lines.