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On April 1, 1945 passenger train No. 1705 departing from the station of Veseli Nad Luznici (75 miles south of Prague) at 10.45 was strafed by a couple of Mustangs north-west of Jindrichuv Hradec at high noon. The bullet-ridden locomotive No. 354.719 was brought to halt immediately.
While civilians and many Hitlerjugend members were lucky enough to take cover from the machine gun fire in the nearby forrest both the driver and the boilerman were seriously wounded by hot steam coming out of the damaged engine. Even though they were given first aid on the spot and transferred to the hospital in Jindrichuv Hradec the former died later on the same day, the latter on April 6.
The same train was attacked again at 15.50 – the locomotive (of course, a different one from that mentioned above:-) was put out of service as well. Nobody was wounded in this case.
What is really strange about these accidents is the fact all the other strafing passes in Bohemia on April 1, 1945 occurred from 13.55 to 15.05 hrs. (as one can read in local recrods), which is entirely confirmed in U. S. resources saying that only unit dispatched on armed recce mission in this territory (oficially in the Prague-Pilsen area) from 13.50 to 15.00 hrs. was the 52nd Fighter Group of the 15th Air Force...
