Soviet Military Thought. The Command and Staff of the Soviet Army Air Force in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 - A Soviet View,

1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. N. Kozhevnikov
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Soviet View ◽  
Army Air Force

THE PECULIARITIES OF PERSONNEL WORK ON COMPLETING COMMAND POSITIONS OF THE RED ARMY AIR FORCE IN 1944–1945

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-199
Author(s):  
S.A. TARASOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
The Third ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Red Army ◽  
Army Air Force ◽  
The Military

The article is devoted to the issues of staffing the command positions of the Red Army Air Force in the third period of the Great Patriotic War and the role of personnel bodies in their resolution. It is noted that the activities of the military tribunals in this period are characterized by a high percentage of convictions of the command staff of the Red Army and references are made to documents confirming the existence of facts of unjustified prosecution of command personnel. During this period, the main principles for selecting officers for further career advancement were the level of their professional skills and political reliability.

Combat Actions of the 1st and 3rd Air Armies in the First Rzhev-Sychev Operation: Losses and Their Replacement

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-159
Author(s):  
Ivan I. Mizerov
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Military Operation ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Red Army ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Army Air Force ◽  
The Military ◽  
Central Archive

The article discusses the combat work of the Red Army air force (the 1st and the 3rd air armies of the Western and Kalinin fronts, respectively) during the Rzhev-Sychev operation, focusing on the role of field aircraft repair for the replacement of losses suffered in the battle, and for maintaining the overall combat capability of the air forces in the offensive zone. The author suggests considering the battle of Rzhev as one of the largest and longest aviation battles of the Great Patriotic War. The paper offers a comparative analysis of the number of forces involved in the Rzhev-Sychevsky operation with other large-scale air operations. Drawing on hitherto unstudied sources from the collections of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation and on statistical data, the author explains the tactical application of aviation in the Central part of the Soviet-German front in the summer and autumn of 1942, as well as the patterns and main causes of losses during the military operation. The author emphasizes the critical importance of field repair for an accelerated recovery of air force strike capabilities; this gave the Soviet units significant advantages over the German Luftwaffe in the region. As the paper shows, the command of the 1st and 3rd air armies were fully aware of the importance of field repair and gave it thoughtful consideration; already during the intense fighting, measures were taken to share the gained experience with other units.

Technology, Group Interest, and Norwegian Air Power, 1920–1940

Vulcan ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-129
Author(s):  
Frode Lindgjerdet
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Naval Aviation ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Air War ◽  
Naval Warfare ◽  
Group Interest ◽  
Technology Group ◽  
Army Air Force

The Norwegian army and navy built their separate air arms around a few flimsy aircraft acquired from 1912. During the interwar period, the Army Air Force desired independence while its smaller naval counterpart fought tenaciously to remain part of the navy. The battle was carried out in the national military journals. Army aviation officers seduced by the air power theories of Giulio Douhet advocated independent operations; they maintained that challenges of air war and the skills required were independent of the surface over which it was fought. They also expected economic benefits from a unified service that could acquire fewer types of aircraft and unify technical services and education. Naval aviation officers maintained that naval air operations required knowledge of naval warfare, seamanship, tight naval integration, and specialized aircraft. What’s more, they resented the very idea that air power could win wars independently.

scholarly journals Archive of the Navy — Branch of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: Stages of History

2018 ◽  
pp. 915-925
Author(s):  
Eduard L. Korshunov ◽  
◽  
Aleksandr I. Rupasov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
The State ◽  
Records Management ◽  
General Staff ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Commander In Chief ◽  
Central Archive

The article reviews creation of the departmental archive of the National Commissariat of the Navy (1937) and its functioning to this day. ‘The Statute of the Branch of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Archive of Navy)’ was adopted on February 20, 2013. According to this document the Archive of Navy became a subdivision of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense, deployed separately and functioning independently. The departmental archive began its acquisition in September 1940. Satisfactory execution of functions by Archive was impeded by multiple changes in the structure of the Directorate of the Peoples’ Commissariat of the Navy, which complicated processing of documents entering the storage. Tasks of the Archive were reduced to the following: to control files condition and document destruction; to compile lists of documents with terms of their storage; to inspect the state of archiving in the Navy; to advise archives and records management offices of central directorates (departments) of the Peoples’ Commissariat of the Navy on formation and registration of files and their transfer to archive; to enter documents of the central directorates (departments) on storage; to track and safeguard documents. On the eve the Great Patriotic War transfer of document from fleet, flotillas, and naval bases was in its initial stage. The first months of the Great Patriotic War prompted evacuation of archival fonds from Moscow to Ulyanovsk (August 1941). By January 1945 these numbered 26550 files and 1234 bags of unsorted documents. At the end of war the Archive was relocated from Ulyanovsk to Leningrad, and then to Kronstadt (1947). In 1950s the Archive continued moving to new places — to Pushkin, to Leningrad, to Gatchina (1961). The fonds of the Archive store unique documents of the Peoples’ Commissariat and Ministry of the Navy, governing bodies under the Commander-In-Chief of the Navy, research establishments, Navy schools, river flotillas, materials on ships and submarines, air force, marines, coastal and anti-aircraft defense, rear, hydrographic, medical and sanitary, and other services. Of great interest for researchers are documents of the General Staff of the Navy.

scholarly journals Experimental Exercises as an Element of Joint Combat Training of the Air Forces and Railway Troops in the Prewar Period and During the Great Patriotic War (1931-1945)

2021 ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
D.S. Lapay ◽  
S.S. Lantukhov
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Test Field ◽  
Military Equipment ◽  
Combat Training ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Prewar Period ◽  
Equipment Testing

This article deals with the organization of experimental exercises of the Air Force and Railway Troops in the conditions of increasing military threat during the prewar period and the years of Great Patriotic War combat operations. The relevance of the study is due to the lack of scientific research on the history of interaction and joint combat training of aviation and special technical branches units. In the course of this research, the role and place of experimental exercises in the system of joint combat training of the Air Force and Railway Troops were defined, and the main areas of weapons and military equipment testing were analyzed. A conclusion was made about the fundamental role of the Gorokhovets Aviation and Railway Troops test field in the study of joint combat use and in the development of new models of air weapons and recovering equipment for Railway Troops. The effectiveness of using of the experience of such experimental exercises is positively assessed. Conclusions are formulated and scientific-theoretical recommendations are offered to improve joint combat training of Aviation and Railway Troops units at the present development level of the Russian Armed Forces.

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