From the first hours of the outbreak of the Prague Uprising on May 5, 1945, the resistance groups created improvised armored trains (IOV). Sufficient captured German material enabled the rapid construction of these trains and their early involvement in combat operations in Prague and its surroundings. These were usually sets of unarmored locomotives and auxiliary cars. Their combat cars had a standardized appearance and equipment of German Gestchützwagen I or Geschützwagen II (E). Wagons were usually expensive two-axle open and closed construction and their armament consisted of anti-aircraft automatic cannons caliber 2 cm in a single-barrel to four-barreled combination. The armor consisted of reinforced concrete rings placed on the platform of the wagons. The resistance Irávs were built by the Trávnice resistance group at the Prague-Vršovice railway station. There were a total of nine IOVs: Praha, Vrsovice, Orlik II, Moscow, Libuse, Zizka, Uhříněves, Říčany a Smíchov. At the railway station in Kralupy were compiled IOV Stalin, IOV Orlík I a IOV Sokol. At the Kladno railway station IOV Kladno and others IOV Vladimir a IOV Blanik originated in Prague and its surroundings. Outside Prague and its surroundings, the insurgents built three more IOVs. The line-ups and armaments of the individual IOVs changed from time to time. The table therefore shows the real situation at the time of the disruption of these improvised armored trains in Nymburk.
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