Train busting
 

Hi,

Just at the moment I have checked several 313 Sqn, RAF records regarding train busting in Britany, in late 1942. Pilots, especially CO had liking for these attacks during Rhubarbs.
Does anyone know about remembrance of the engine-driver, fire tender or Wehrmacht soldier on the attacks (not only from mentioned region), so about possibility to read the description from other side ?

Regards,
Michal

Re: Train busting
 

Frederiksberg in Denmark has a memorial to Danish train crews killed during WW2.

Re: Train busting
 

There is a memorial to fallen SNCF personnel on a wall opposite the Gare du Nord in Paris — you can see it from the Eurostar waiting area.

Re: Train busting
 

IIRC, this 1964 Burt Lancaster movie has a great scene or two of Allied fighter-bombers attacking a French train in service to the Wehrmacht taken from the train crew's perspective. Another scene is a French marshalling yard being bombed, again, from the perspective of those on the ground.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059825/

Re: Train busting
 

Graham
I did not knot. Do you know the location of the memorial?

Regards

Mikkel

Re: Train busting
 

There's a monument with statue for killed Dutch train personnel in Utrecht: see http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumen...orwegpersoneel

In Belgium there's one in the Central Station of Brussels: http://www.oorlogsmusea.nl/artikel/4...gpersoneel.htm

Regards,

Leendert

Re: Train busting
 

Hi,

thanks to all for interesting comments. Probably I used bad word what I am looking for. The question is if you know about memoir, description of the man / men who experienced the fighter attack on his train, locomotive.

Regards,
Michal

Re: Train busting
 

I'm afraid it is some 20 years since I visited Denmark. My memory is vague, but I think it is just outside the old city walls, in a green area.

PS I tried this as a PM but your mailbox is full

Michal: I did understand your request, but had no direct response to make. I thought the memorial worth mentioning in the context, and apologise if it has sent the thread askew.