Troop Train is a short American propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1943. While the film's assumed purpose would be to educate...
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1947, Irgun bombed a British troop train north of Lydda, killing the Jewish engineer. On September 29, 1947, the train was bombed by Irgun twenty miles...
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engineer fell asleep and ran his troop train into the rear of a circus train near Hammond, Indiana. The circus train held 400 performers and roustabouts...
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Quintinshill rail disaster (redirect from Quintinshill train crash)
carriages of the troop train ignited, starting a fire which soon engulfed all five trains. Only half the soldiers on the troop train survived. Those killed...
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Canoe River train crash occurred on November 21, 1950, near Valemount in eastern British Columbia, Canada, when a westbound troop train and the eastbound...
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train wreck on June 22, 1918, at Hessville, Indiana, (about 51⁄2 miles east of Hammond, Indiana), when an empty Michigan Central Railroad troop train...
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collided with a troop train going to Metz (now in France); 20 were killed and 41 seriously injured. June 9 – Canada – A freight train derailed near Marathon...
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(November 28, 1933) Train jumps rails, The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (April 20, 1934) 12 killed in Japanese troop train tragedy, The Singapore...
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soldiers on the troop train, 9 passengers from the 2 passenger trains, 3 railway staff and 4 children, believed to be stowaways on the troop train. Col Druitt's...
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few other operations in Europe: a British troop train was derailed and an attempt against another troop train failed. An attack on a British officers club...
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