Unsuccessful attempt to blow up a Medloc train in the Austrian Alps, 1947
TNA FO 1020/1774 Medloc (Allied) train after the Irgun’s unsuccessful attempt to blow it off the trestle into the ravine on the evening of 12 August, 1947. The train carried about 200 civilians and Allied troops returning home. From British Morning News, 17 August 1947 (Allied Commission for Austria. British Element. Political Division. Information Services Branch) See: State of Terror, 221-223 |
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