Armoured Train Bartosz Glowacki, also called Armoured Train number 55 or PP 55 was a Polish Army armoured train, used during the Polish-Soviet War and the Polish September Campaign. On 11 September 1939, it was assigned to the Operational Group Wyszkow and was directed to the fortress of Brześć nad Bugiem, where it fought German units of the SS-Verfügungstruppe. After withdrawal southwards, to Lwów, it helped some of the Polish units cross the German lines, but needed to be recovered after the artillery and anti--tank guns of the 1st Mountain Division (Wehrmacht) heavily damaged it. The train might have been finished off by the Luftwaffe, since it was never recovered. Other sources indicate that it might've been hit by artillery and captured by the Red Army along with the Śmiały (PP 53) when Lwów fell.[1]
Sources
edit- Rajmund Szubanski - Poczatek pancernego szlaku. Wyd. Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warszawa 1980.
References
edit- ^ Malmassari, Paul (2016). "Poland". Armoured Trains. Seaforth Publishing. p. 362. ISBN 9781848322653. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
"[PP 53] then withdrew towards Lwów with PP 55. Arriving in the town on the 18th [of September 1939], the two trains were captured when Lwów fell to the Red Army
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