On the night of May 12, 1943, partisans from the Puławy Branch of the Polish Peasants’ Battalions halted and attacked a German passenger train carrying soldiers going on holiday. As a result of the action, several dozen Nazi Germans were killed or injured.

The second partisan action, which literally echoed loudly in the region, involved blowing up an ammunition train several months later. On the night of September 12, 1943, partisans from the Puławy Branch of the Polish Peasants’ Battalions halted, attacked and then destroyed the entire train loaded with airplane bombs and rockets for the Nebelwerfer launcher. As a result of the action, seventeen Nazi Germans were killed. Two partisans and seven residents of Gołąb and Wólka Gołębska were slightly injured. Two engines and fifty-six fully loaded train cars were destroyed and the railway overhead lines were ruptured on the 200-metre stretch, which caused a 36-hour-long hiatus in the train traffic. Several buildings in Gołąb and Wólka Gołębska burnt down from the ammunition scattered in the vicinity by the explosion of the burning train. The same explosion was heard in the majority of Puławy County and it even triggered air-raid warning alarm in the Nazi German garrison in Puławy.