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Re: Luftwaffe railroad nightfighting trains
Well, actually there is. There is a great deal of daily material about them in the signals intelligence intercepts beginning with spring 1942 when they were first being set up around Rennes, France. British intelligence was very interested in them and, lucky for them, the trains relied heavily on radio communications because they usually did not have access to landline field cable connections. Hence, buckets and buckets of intercepts. And I do recall seeing a few about derailments and attacks by partisans on the central sector of the Eastern Front. More that several Giant Wurzburg(s) and Freya(s) were damaged in these attacks and a few personnel killed or wounded.
I don't think you would have to scan your way through some 280,000 pages of intercepts because the Air Ministry Intelligence Directorate did do several special studies on these trains that were based on the intercepts. Perhaps someone here can help you locate these special studies or tell you where to find them at BNA Kew.
L.
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