All the major events in the history of the railway soldiers were the completion of the repair of a certain railway bridge and a certain section of the railway during wartime, and the start and completion of a certain railway project in peacetime. The "big events" of May are no exception:
In the War of Liberation, the Huaihe River bridge was repaired, and the Tianjin-Pudong Railway, which had been interrupted for 12 years, was opened to traffic, ensuring military transportation for the battle of crossing the river. The first railway, the Lizhan Railway, was opened to traffic after the railway soldiers triumphantly returned from Korea, and the construction of the first phase of the Guizhou-Kunming Railway and the first phase of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway began. What is written on the paper is a few words, but on the land, it is the heroic battle, bloody sacrifice of thousands of railway soldiers and soldiers. The first cannon of the new line sounded, and the martyrs' cemetery gradually increased the number of heroic souls in the process of the project.
This month, two famous heroes of the railway soldiers died: Yang Liandi, everyone is familiar with it, a time bomb exploded, and he died at the repair site of the Cheongchon River Bridge in North Korea. Wang Jizhen, who died in rushing to repair the Huai River bridge. This is also the first famous hero who died after the formation of the railway soldiers. Field armies began to gather on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and it took 8 months to 1 year to repair the damaged Huai River Bridge. The higher authorities ordered the construction of a temporary bridge within 3 months. The troops used large wooden cage caissons as the basis for filling rocks to set up wooden row piers. When the caisson was dropped, one of the iron rings broke, and the 100-ton wooden cage sank to the bottom of the river at a depth of 12 meters. Wang Jizhen dived into the torrent to tie a steel rope hook and died tragically. So far, the monument commemorating Wang Jizhen and other bridge repair heroes stands on the south bank of the Huaihe Bridge. The current China Railway Bridge Bureau is Wang Jizhen's former unit. The cover photo of this issue of the official account was taken by Wang Jizhen when he dived. I'll write a special article about it later.
The biggest "big thing" in May:
1. After the victory of the Liaoshen Campaign, the railway column subordinate to Siye entered the customs and was transferred from the local theater to the battlefield for the liberation of the whole country. In May 1949, the railway column was expanded to form the Railway Corps, which was under the unified command of the Ministry of Railways of the Central Military Commission and the railway workers to undertake the task of railway repair.
2. On May 26, 1950, when the whole country was liberated and the war ended, the Railway Corps was discussed and reorganized, and the Central Finance Commission proposed to the Central Military Commission and the Government Council that the Railway Corps be changed into an engineering corps. Later, the downsizing of the troops ended in September, and they were on standby in October, and in November they successively left for Korea to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. In a war, a meritorious unit was fought - the railway arms.
If you are familiar with the history of the railway soldiers, everything is a story behind it.
The third celebration meeting of the railway soldiers was held in Zhongnanhai Huairen Hall, and what a high courtesy. Wang Zhen had just been appointed commander and political commissar of the railway corps, and Commander-in-Chief Zhu De made a report at the meeting. At the end of the meeting, it was very similar to the Red Square parade of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, and the army and chariots drove directly to the front line after the parade - after the celebration of the railway soldiers, they went to the south to repair the Lizhan and Yingxia railways.
On May 25, 1982, He Zhengwen and Liu Huaqing, deputy directors of the General Staff Headquarters, attended an enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Railway Corps. Half a year later, the central government officially issued the famous document of "dismantling the railway soldiers".
If you look at the "big events" of the railroad soldiers every month, you actually see all the big things - because everything is in the process of beginning, progress, and ending.
The commanders and fighters of the 3rd Detachment of the Railway Column used large wooden cages to fill stones as the foundation in the rough Huai River, set up wooden rows to erect bridge piers, and rushed to build the Huai River temporary bridge.
On May 1, 1949, the 3rd Detachment of the Railway Column began to repair the semi-permanent bridge of the Huai River, which was required to be completed in 3 months. The commanders and fighters fought bravely and completed the construction on July 1 one month ahead of schedule, and the Tianjin-Pudong Railway, which had been interrupted for 12 years, was reopened to traffic. Wang Jizhen, an outstanding Communist Party member and diving hero, died in the construction of the bridge.
The repair of the Huaihe Bridge was a very important project repair of the railway soldiers in the War of Liberation, which had a great impact on the war situation. During the restoration process, six soldiers led by the "diving hero" Wang Jizhen died honorably. On July 1, 1949, the third detachment of the railway column built a memorial tower, which was listed as the first batch of patriotic education bases in Bengbu in 1982.
On May 16, 1949, the Central Military Commission issued an order to expand the Railway Column of the Fourth Field Army into the Railway Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, with Teng Daiyuan, director of the Railway Department of the Central Military Commission, concurrently serving as commander and political commissar of the Railway Corps, Vice Minister Lu Zhengcao concurrently serving as deputy commander, Li Shouxuan, former chief of staff of the column, as chief of staff, and Wang Hefeng, director of the Political Department of the Ministry of Railways, and director of the Political Department, under the jurisdiction of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th detachments.
On May 16, 1949, the Central Military Commission issued an order to expand the Railway Column of the Fourth Field Army into the Railway Corps, which was transferred to the Central Military Commission, and Teng Daiyuan, Minister of the Railway Department of the Military Commission, concurrently served as the commander and political commissar of the Railway Corps.
This month, the Central Military Commission ordered the No. 2 Detachment of the Railway Column to transfer three companies to form a front-line railway repair brigade for the river-crossing operation, and merge it with two regiments of the Fourth Field Army to form the No. 1 and No. 3 Railway Regiments of the Central South Military Region to undertake the task of rushing to repair the railways after crossing the river.
On May 26, 1950, the Railway Corps held an enlarged meeting of the Party Committee in Beijing, attended by the detachment leaders and political commissars to discuss the reorganization of the Corps. Teng Daiyuan conveyed the proposal of the Central Finance Commission to the Central Military Commission and the Government Council on changing the Railway Corps into an engineering corps. The participants had a serious discussion. According to the opinions discussed, the Railway Corps reported to the Central Military Commission, suggesting that the structure of the Railway Corps be retained, and that the troops should be reorganized into three divisions and two independent regiments directly under the Central Military Commission.
The "Iron Army" newspaper published the news of the reorganization.
On May 9, 1951, in order to cooperate with the Fifth Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the 1st Division began to move from Anju to Hanpo to carry out the task of repairing the railway between Nanchuan and Kaesong.
This month, the Central Military Commission ordered the 2nd Division of the Railway Corps to enter the DPRK.
On May 5, 1952, according to the instructions of the Logistics Department of the Chinese People's Volunteers, the Logistics Department of the Railway Corps entered the DPRK; after entering the DPRK, the Ministry transferred 54 cadres to form the "Command" Logistics Department.
On May 15, 1952, Deputy Company Commander Yang Liandi (2nd from right) was dying on the spot when a timed bomb exploded while rushing to repair the Dongqing Chuanjiang Bridge. The troops wrote an oath at the place where Yang Liandi died: "We march on the blood of heroes!"
On the 15th, Yang Liandi died due to a time bomb explosion during the emergency repair of the Dongqingchuan River Bridge on the Manpu Line. On 4 June, the Chinese People's Volunteers issued a general order: "In order to commemorate and commend Comrade Yang Liandi's heroic deeds, it is hereby decided to posthumously recognize Comrade Yang Liandi as a first-class hero, and name the 1st Company of the 1st Bridge Regiment of the 1st Division of the Railway Corps where Comrade Yang Liandi belonged before his death as Yang Liandi's first company." The North Korean government awarded Yang Lion-di the title of "Hero of the Republic" and awarded him the Gold Star Medal and the Order of the National Flag of the First Class.
On May 3, 1954, the opening ceremony of the 86.78-kilometer railway of the newly built Deok (Sichuan) Eight (Wonmyeon) railway was held. Prime Minister Kim Il Sung sent a congratulatory message to all commanders and fighters: The completion of the 8th German parallel "is another brilliant victory won by the peoples of the DPRK and China in the struggle to defend peace and security."
On May 14, 1954, the railway soldiers held the third celebration meeting in the auditorium of the State Council of the Central People's Government of Zhongnanhai, Beijing. Commander-in-Chief Zhu De, accompanied by Commander Wang Zhen and other leaders, met with all the delegates attending the meeting and gave important instructions.
On the 14th, the railway soldiers held the third celebration meeting in Zhongnanhai Huairen Hall. The conference lasted for five days, and 474 people attended the conference with meritorious service or above of the second class and heroic models. Wang Zhen, commander and political commissar of the Railway Corps, presided over the meeting, and the main agenda item was to mobilize troops to change from rushing to repair railways in wartime to participating in the construction of national railways in peacetime, and to continue to fulfill all tasks assigned by the party. Commander-in-Chief Zhu De attended the meeting to give important instructions. He said: The railway corps is a technical branch of our army and an indispensable component of the modern national defense force. The task of the railway troops is to step up the building of the troops and make them a strong force capable of defending the motherland and supporting the country's economic construction.
On the 15th, the second phase of the 74th railway restoration project of the 2nd Division of the Railway Corps in North Korea officially started, and it was basically completed by the end of August. After that, except for the 6th Regiment to continue to complete the project, the rest of the division left for China on 7 September and was stationed in Yulin, Guangxi. After completing its mission, the 6th Regiment returned to China in January 1955.
On the 17th, the construction of three locomotive depots undertaken by the 9th Division of the Railway Corps in Korea was officially started, and it was completed on January 20, 1955, five months ahead of the original plan. On February 5, 1955, at the inauguration ceremony and award ceremony held at the West Pyongyang Depot, Prime Minister Kim Il Sung delivered a speech and read a letter of thanks. On February 21, the troops of the 9th Division returned to China one after another, and on the 24th, they were stationed in Tangyuan County, Heilongjiang Province, taking over the task of building new barracks from the 7th Division. Leaving three companies in North Korea, they completed their mission and returned home on May 30.
On the 22nd, in accordance with the "Plan for the Reorganization of the Railway Corps" approved by the Central Military Commission, the Railway Corps Command issued an order to reorganize the troops in accordance with the reorganization plan. The unit consists of 10 divisions (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th division, 1 independent bridge regiment. Each division has a total of 7,543 people and is composed of 5 regiments (1 bridge regiment, 3 line regiments, and 1 mechanical regiment). Each regiment is called the 1st to 35th Regiments and the 41st to 55th Regiments of the Railway Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in order. Each regiment was organized into six companies, and the battalion-level structure was abolished. The Separate Bridge Regiment still consists of 3 battalions and 9 companies. After that, in early August, the Central Military Commission promulgated the establishment table of railway divisions, and the quota of each division was adjusted to 8,000 people.
On May 15, 1955, the Party Committee of the Railway Corps held a plenary meeting in Nanchang to convey the spirit of the National Party Congress, study and discuss the convening of the Party Congress of the Railway Corps, the construction of the two railways of Lizhan and Yingxia, and related issues in the construction of the troops.
On the 19th, the Lizhan Railway was opened to traffic. On July 1, the opening ceremony was held in Zhanjiang. More than 10,000 responsible persons from all walks of life in the party, government, and military circles in South China, as well as the garrison and the masses, attended the event. Defense Minister Peng Dehuai sent a telegram of encouragement to all commanders and fighters to make persistent efforts, guard against arrogance and rashness, and continue to work hard to accomplish the glorious task of building the Yingtan-Xiamen railway.
In the second half of the year, the railway corps moved from Guixian County, Guangxi, to Nanping City, Fujian Province, and commanded the rush to build the Yingxia Railway.
On May 11, 1957, more than 3,500 young people from all walks of life in Tianjin gathered to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the sacrifice of Yang Liandi, a hero of the mountain. Zhu De, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Peng Dehuai, minister of national defense, wrote inscriptions respectively. Zhu De's inscription: "Inherit the revolutionary tradition and build the great motherland." Peng Dehuai's inscription: "Martyr Yang Liandi's love for labor, love for the motherland, and heroic and tenacious internationalist spirit will always live in the hearts of the Chinese people and the Korean people." ”
On the 20th, the first phase of the expansion project of the Wuhan hub (Danshuichi to Yujiawan) undertaken by the 4th Division of the Railway Corps started. The 24-kilometre hub line was laid and opened to traffic in November 1958.
In early May 1958, Gan Siqi, deputy director of the General Political Department, inspected the railway troops of the Baolan Line and encouraged the commanders and fighters of the railway troops to carry forward the spirit of arduous struggle in building the army and building roads with diligence and thrift, and actively participate in the construction of the motherland.
In May 1957, Gan Siqi (3rd from left), deputy director of the General Political Department, inspected the construction site of the Sanshenggong Yellow River Bridge of the Baolan Railway. Construction in the desert of the Qinglu Railway
The southern section of the Guikun Railway undertaken by the railway soldiers was started. This section of the railway starts from Weining, Guizhou, passes through Jinzhong to Shushe and then merges with the Yunnan-Guizhou line, and then passes through Zhanyi, Qujing, Tangzi to Kunming, with a total length of 377 kilometers (of which Kunming to Zhanyi is a narrow-gauge reconstruction), and the construction is jointly undertaken by the 1st and 5th Divisions and the 3 regiments of the Yunnan Provincial Military Region and local migrant workers. Later, due to the adjustment of the national plan, the work was contracted and stopped in 1962 and 1963.
On the 14th, the General Staff Headquarters sent a telegram to the Railway Corps, transferring the 6th Road Battalion of the Volunteer Army and the 2nd Road Battalion of the Guangzhou Military Region to the Railway Corps, and renamed the 1st and 2nd Independent Battalions of the 10th Division of the Railway Corps. On the 23rd, the construction of the Qing (Shui) Green (Park) Railway Branch Line undertaken by the 10th Division of the Railway Corps officially started. The line starts from Qingshui Station on the Lanxin Line and reaches Luyuan via Jinta, with a total length of 240 kilometers. According to the decision of the Central Military Commission, this line was surveyed, designed and constructed by the railway soldiers themselves. After nearly one year of construction, the 10th Division was laid and opened to traffic on April 27, 1959.
The "lifeline" connecting the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center with the outside world - the Qinglu Railway, the scene of construction in the desert of the railway soldiers in those years.
On May 4, 1959, the 16th Regiment of the 4th Division of the Railway Corps was responsible for the construction of the Zhang (Dian) Magnetic (Kiln) Railway, which was 52 kilometers from Xintai to Laiwu, and was opened to traffic on August 30, 1960.
On the 17th, the construction of the Lou (Di) and Shao (Yang) railway branch lines undertaken by the 6th and 9th regiments of the 2nd Division of the Railway Corps started. The Loushao Line has a total length of 99 kilometers, and the track was laid to Shaoyang Station on May 1, 1960, and temporary operation began on June 1. On April 15, 1965, it was handed over to the Guangzhou Railway Bureau.
On the 30th, the Yangchang railway branch line started. The line is located in Xuanwei County, Yunnan Province, from the Guikun Railway Geyitou Station to the end of Magpie, 54 kilometers long, is built for the development of Yangchang coal mine. The 1st Regiment of the 1st Division of the Railway Corps was responsible for the construction of the section from Ge Yitou to Dasongshu, with a total length of 28 kilometers, which was laid and opened to traffic on August 8, 1964.
This month, the Fu (Liji) Jia (Hezhai) Railway started. The total length of the line is 83 kilometers, the southern section of Fuliji to Suixi 32 kilometers, in August 1958 began to be organized by the Jinan Railway Bureau construction, in May 1959 by the 18th Regiment of the 4th Division of the Railway Corps to take over the construction, January 18, 1960 to Suixi track laying. 51 kilometers from Suixi to Jiahe Village was jointly constructed by the 18th Regiment of the 4th Division and the Bengbu Railway Bureau, and the track was laid and opened to traffic on December 29, 1960.
On May 1, 1962, Li Fuchun, Vice Premier of the State Council, instructed the General Staff to order the 7th Division of the Railway Corps to transfer troops and machinery to undertake the construction of two special lines for flood control railways on the Yellow River from Lankao East to Batou and Guangwu to Huayuankou. The two lines have a total of 25 kilometers and will be opened to traffic on June 14.
On the 12th, the leading organs of the railway corps gathered to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the sacrifice of Yang Liandi, a first-class hero of the former Chinese People's Volunteers. On May 22, 1964, the Central Military Commission notified that it was agreed that the railway soldiers should undertake part of the tasks of the battle in the Daxinganling forest area, and transfer personnel to participate in the work of the battle headquarters. The command was established in Jiagedaqi on 5 July.
On the 30th, the railway soldiers reported to Premier Zhou Enlai and Luo Ruiqing, chief of general staff, on the expansion of the railway soldiers by 100,000 people in 1963 to build railways in forest areas, and the task arrangements for 1964 and 1965. The railway corps was streamlined and reorganized, the proportion of officers was reduced from 22.1 percent to 9.95 percent, the proportion of production personnel increased from 72 percent to 81.4 percent, and the annual construction could reach 240 days, thus fulfilling Premier Zhou Enlai's requirements for the establishment of the railway troops. Premier Zhou commented on this report: "Chairman Xiucheng Kunlu agrees. Chairman Zhu proposed the use of railways for military repair. ”
On May 5, 1965, the 1st Detachment of the Chinese People's Volunteer Engineering Corps (later known as the Chinese Logistics Force) sent an advance team to Vietnam to negotiate the issue of troops aiding Vietnam to resist the United States. On 7 May, the second advance team was dispatched to carry out on-the-spot reconnaissance, set up camps, and make preparations for the troops to enter Vietnam.
On the 31st, the Railway Corps Headquarters announced that the award-winning projects that participated in the exhibition of training equipment of the whole army were commended, among which the deeds of the 6th Company of the 17th Regiment of the 4th Division were praised by Ye Jianying, the leader of the Central Military Commission.
In May 1966, a huge forest fire broke out in the Daxinganling forest area, and the troops of the 3rd and 6th Divisions were ordered to put out the fire in the forest. When the firefighting units ran out of dry rations, the command post of the Daxinganling Forest Area of the Railway Corps borrowed 200 horses from the localities to form a horse gang to deliver the grain to the troops.
On May 16, 1966, under the unified command of the command post of the Daxinganling Forest Area of the Railway Corps, the 3rd and 6th Divisions of the Railway Corps dispatched 11,000 people to fight the huge forest fire together with the Shenyang Military Region and the local people. After 12 days and nights of fighting, the fire, which burned an area of more than 7,950 square kilometers, was extinguished.
On May 1, 1967, Premier Zhou Enlai met with Cui Tianmin, political commissar of the Railway Corps, and instructed: You go to the southwest and take the headquarters with you. On May 10, Vice Premier Li Xiannian convened a meeting to convey Premier Zhou's instructions on handing over the construction task of the Southwest Railway to the leadership of the railway soldiers. On May 25, 200 cadres of the railway soldiers went to work at the headquarters of the construction site of the Southwest Railway.
On May 12, 1969, Premier Zhou Enlai convened a meeting to study and decide to abolish the Southwest Railway Construction Site Headquarters, and the railway soldiers were responsible for handling matters related to the construction of the Southwest Railway.
On May 17, 1971, the 34th Regiment of the 7th Division of the Railway Corps was in the construction of the Dacheng Tunnel of the Xiangyu Railway, due to a flash flood, the flood water was injected into the tunnel from the No. 1 "skylight" of the tunnel, causing a major accident, 84 people fell into danger, 52 people escaped after rescue, and 32 people (3 soldiers, 29 migrant workers) died.
In early May 1974, the key project of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway from Hargai to Nanshankou was started. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway starts from Xining City, Qinghai Province in the east, passes through Haiyan, Hargai, Ulan and Golmud in the west, crosses the Kunlun Mountains and Tanggula Mountains into Tibet, and then passes through Amdo and Nagqu to Lhasa, with a total length of 2,047 kilometers, and is the first plateau railway trunk line in the mainland. The 683-kilometer section from Hargai to Nanshankou started this time was constructed by the 7th and 10th divisions of the Railway Corps. The key projects are the Guanjiao Tunnel and the Zarkhan Salt Lake Area. The track-laying of the Ha (Ergai) Xi (Ligou) section was completed in December 1977 and opened for passenger and freight transportation in September 1979, and the track laying of the Xi (Ligou) Ge (Ermu) section was completed in July 1979, and the passenger and freight transportation was opened in the Spring Festival of 1982.
In May 1977, the railway corps held a naming meeting for the "Tangshan Earthquake Relief and Emergency Repair Assault Company" and the "Tangshan Earthquake Relief and Emergency Repair Pioneer Company".
On May 31, 1977, the railway soldiers held a grand naming meeting in Beijing. Wu Kehua (2nd from left), commander of the Railway Corps, read out the order of the Central Military Commission to confer the honorary titles of two outstanding companies in the Tangshan earthquake relief and emergency repair.
In mid-May 1979, the Karamay Regulating Reservoir Project, which was constructed by the 5th Division of the Railway Corps, was started, and the project was completed by the end of October.
This month, the construction of the Ta 10 railway branch line under construction of the 3rd Division of the Railway Corps began. The branch line is 58 kilometers, starting from Tahe Station of Nenlin Line and ending at 18 stations in Huma County, which is a special branch line for transporting timber connecting the main line of Nenlin Railway. On November 5, 1981, the track was laid to the 18th station, and at the end of 1983, the task of the 10th line of the tower was completed.
On 8 April 1980, Yang Dezhi, chief of the general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and He Zhengwen, deputy chief of the general staff, inspected the organs of the railway troops, listened to the work reports of the leaders of the railway troops, highly praised the outstanding contributions made by the railway troops in national and army building, and demanded that leaders at all levels continue to do a good job in all aspects of work in accordance with the requirements of streamlining and reorganizing the army.
On May 8, 1980, Yang Dezhi, Chief of the General Staff (4th from left in the front row), and He Zhengwen, Deputy Chief of the General Staff (2nd from left in the front row), came to inspect the work of the Railway Corps and met with leaders at and above the level of government departments.
On the way back to Beijing from the Tibet Autonomous Region, Hu Yaobang, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, and Wan Li, secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, inspected the organs of the No. 1 Headquarters of the Railway Corps, which was building the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, visited the cadres and soldiers of the organs, praised the spirit of arduous struggle of the railway soldiers, and encouraged them to carry forward the fine traditions of the railway soldiers and better accomplish various tasks. Hu Yaobang said: You railway soldiers are working very hard, please convey to the comrades the greetings of me and Comrade Wan Li on behalf of Chairman Hua Guofeng, Vice Chairman Ye, Vice Chairman Deng, Vice Chairman Li Xiannian, and Vice Chairman Chen Yun.
On May 25, 1982, the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Railway Corps held an enlarged meeting, which was attended by 155 members of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Soldiers, military and political leaders of various divisions and academies, and cadres at or above the level of director of the Department of the Railway Corps. He Zhengwen and Liu Huaqing, deputy directors of the General Staff Headquarters, attended the meeting. Convey and study the decision of the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission on abolishing the establishment of the railway corps and merging the railway corps into the Ministry of Railways. Deputy General Director He Zhengwen, Commander Chen Zaidao, and Political Commissar Lu Zhengcao spoke one after another on the work of withdrawing and handing over the organization. At the meeting, the discussion put forward a work plan for the dismantling and transfer of the organization, and demanded that the party committees at all levels carry out in-depth political and ideological education, strive to do a good job in all organizational work, and ensure that there are no political problems, that the project tasks are not affected, and that state property is not damaged.
On May 12, 1983, the General Staff decided to postpone the merger of the Railway Corps Command and its subordinate units into the leadership of the Ministry of Railways. Circular of the General Staff Headquarters: With the approval of the State Council and the Central Military Commission, it is agreed that the work of merging the headquarters of the Railway Corps and its subordinate units into the Ministry of Railways will be postponed until 1 October. Since 1 October, except for the Military Communications Department of the Railway Armament Engineering College, the Nenjiang Base in Northeast China, the Yantai Sanatorium, the Xinglong and Yimaling Warehouses, the Tianjin, Xinglong, Qingxu, and Jincheng Factories, and the Handan Wuji Iron and Steel Plant, the rest of the units have been formally transferred to the leadership of the General Logistics Department.
(Compiled with reference to "A Brief History of the Railway Soldiers")
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