Smok Kaszubski - improvized armoured train, build by Gdansks shipyard workers. They took ordinary train and armour plates from not yet built destroyers "Orkan" and "Huragan" and weapons from sunken ships. Finished at 7th of September, the next day went to battle. Supported infantry in several battles and fire exchange with German artillery.
At 8th of Sept. Smok encountered platoon of armoured vehicles damaging one of them by Wejcherowo. Also damaging one enemy plane.
Damaged by Luftwaffe at 12th of September, taken to Gdynia for repair. Abandoned along with the city.
During a visit in June 1939, the Free City of Danzig Reichsführer -SS Heinrich Himmler , during a meeting with Albert Forster acknowledged the need to strengthen local SS forces . Soon the Senate of the Free City of Danzig , with the knowledge of the authorities of the Third Reich , passed a proposal to organize a military unit Gdansk under the pretext of creating your own defenses . As a result, by sea was transferred illegally to Gdansk ( in civilian clothes ) III. Battalion 4th Regiment of the SS Totenkopf , which became the basis of Gdansk SS- Heimwehr . Strengthened him about 500 volunteers from Gdansk, subdivision przeciwpancernym of Prettin in Saxony and the squadron flak from East Prussia . August 18, 1939 r . In SS Heimwehr Danzig was the flag ceremony and parade through the streets of the city.
