French Foreign Legion Armored Trains

[Edward L. Hsiao]

Gentlemen,

How many armored trains did the French Foreign Legion had during the First Indochina War. Did all of them fierce action against the enemy? What were the fate of these armored trains after the war? To me there was a possibility that among the men who crew these trains were several German legionnaires who used to crew the German armored trains during WWII or use to work with the German military railroad during WWII.


Edward L. Hsiao

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From Military Trains and Railways: An Illustrated History by Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage:

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[Edward L. Hsiao]

Dear Sir,

Thank you for the pages that you put on the computer screen. Plenty of information about the French Foreign armored train in the First Indochina War is good. Fate of that armored train when the colony of Indochina was lost from the French was unknown so far.


Edward L.Hsiao

[Edward L. Hsiao]

It seems like the Foreign legionaries (especially the Germans) had came up with the armored trains idea themselves. They built them themselves in a few months. The Foreign legionaries tends to come with ideas and inventions of their own to take the war against the enemy. Sometimes I wonder what were the inventions that the legionaries came up with at all?
Edward L. Hsiao