Bartosz Głowacki (armoured train)

A 1920 photo of steam engine of the Bartosz Glowacki armoured train

Armoured Train Bartosz Glowacki, also called Armoured Train number 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.

Sources

Rajmund Szubanski - Poczatek pancernego szlaku. Wyd. Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warszawa 1980.

Polish Armoured Trains

Polish armoured trains in 1939	Danuta Poznańczyk Generał Sosnkowski Paderewski Śmierć Pierwszy Marszałek Piłsudczyk Śmiały Groźny Bartosz Głowacki

Improvised armoured trains in 1939	Smok Kaszubski nr 1 nr 2

Third Silesian Uprising (1921)	Korfanty Zygmunt Powstaniec

Polish-Soviet war (1919-1921)	Bartosz Głowacki Boruciątko Boruta Chrobry Dąbrowski Danuta Generał Dowbor Generał Iwaszkiewicz Generał Konarzewski Generał Listowski Generał Sikorski Generał Sosnkowski Groźny Groźny-szeroki Gromobój Hallerczyk Huragan Kaniów Lis-Kula Mściciel Paderewski Pierwszy Marszałek Piłsudczyk Piłsudczyk-szeroki Pionier Pionier-szeroki Podhalanin Poznańczyk Reduta Ordona Rozwadowczyk Saper Smok Śmiały Śmiały-szeroki Śmierć Śmigły Stefan Batory Stefan Czarniecki Wilk Zagończyk Zawisza Czarny

Polish-Ukrainian war (1918-1919)	Kozak Piłsudczyk PP 3 Gromobój Pionier

Polish armoured trains in Britain	Polish armoured train units in Britain

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