6th Mixed Aviation Corps

Fighter Yak-7 282nd Iad

• 6th mixed air corps;
• 6th Mixed Aviation Lublin Corps;
• 6th mixed aviation Lublin Red Banner Corps;
• 5th Bomber Aviation Lublin Red Banner Corps ;
• 73rd Bomber Aviation Lublin Red Banner Corps .

The 6th mixed aviation corps was formed on March 15, 1943 on the basis of the Resolution of the USSR State Defense Committee ^[1]

4. Form mixed air corps No. 6 by March 15, 1943. To include in the air corps:
221 Boston-3 bomber air division, consisting of the Stavka reserve, and 282 Yak-7 fighter air division, consisting of the Stavka reserve. Formation of an air corps to conduct in the area of ​​the city of Tambov.

To approve Colonel I. Antoshkin as the commander of the mixed air corps No. 6

- Decree No. GKO-2880ss of February 13, 1943

The 6th mixed Lublin Red Banner Aviation Corps on September 28, 1944 was transformed into the 5th Lublin Red Banner Aviation Corps ^[2]

• from June 3, 1943 to September 28, 1944, a total of 484 days ^[3]

• Hero of the Soviet Union Major General Aviation Antoshkin Ivan Diomidovich ^[4] from February 13, 1943 to May 2, 1944. He died in a plane crash.
• Colonel (from August 19, 1944, Major General of Aviation ) Borisenko Mikhail Kharlampievich ^[5] from May 3, 1944 to September 28, 1944

• 221st Bakhmach Bomber Order of the Suvorov Aviation Division ^{[6] [7]}
  • 8th Guards Lodz Red Banner Bomber Aviation Regiment
  • The 57th Kalinkovichi Order of the Bohdan Khmelnitsky Bomber Aviation Regiment
  • 745th Lodz Bomber Aviation Regiment
  • 860th Bomber Lodz Aviation Regiment
• The 282nd Fighter Gomel Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Aviation Division ( from April 1943 to August 1944 ) ^{[6] [7]}
  • 127th Fighter Warsaw Red Banner Aviation Regiment
  • 517th Fighter Kalinkovichi Order of the Suvorov Aviation Regiment
  • 774th Berlin Fighter Order of the Suvorov and Alexander Nevsky Aviation Regiment
• 132nd Bomber Sevastopol Aviation Division ( since May 1944 ) ^{[6] [7]}
  • 63rd Kerch Bomber Red Banner Aviation Regiment
  • 244th Allenstein Bomber Aviation Regiment
  • 277th Mlava Red Banner Aviation Regiment
• 404th Separate Aviation Communications Squadron
• 291st Separate Communications Company
• 31st separate aerial platoon
• 835th mobile aircraft repair shop
• 2710th Military Post Station

• Kursk defensive operation ^[4] from July 5, 1943 to July 12, 1943
• Oryol operation "Kutuzov" from July 12, 1943 to August 18, 1943
• Chernihiv-Pripyat operation ^[4] from August 26, 1943 to September 30, 1943
• Kalinkovich-Mozyr operation ^[4] from January 8, 1944 to January 30, 1944
• Gomel-Rechitsa operation ^[4] from November 10, 1943 to November 30, 1943
• Rogachev-Zhlobin operation ^[4] from February 21, 1944 to February 26, 1944
• The Belarusian operation "Bagration" ^[5] from June 23, 1944 to August 29, 1944
• Bobruisk operation from June 24, 1944 to June 29, 1944
• Minsk operation from June 29, 1944 to July 4, 1944
• Lublin-Brest operation from July 18, 1944 to August 2, 1944

• 6th Mixed Aviation Corps awarded the Order of the Red Banner of War ^[8]
• The 8th Guards Red Banner Bomber Aviation Regiment was awarded the Order of the Battle Red Banner ^[8]
• The 127th Fighter Aviation Regiment was awarded the Order of the Battle Red Banner ^[9]

• The 6th mixed aviation corps was awarded the honorary name “Lublin” ^[10]
• The 221st Bomber Aviation Division was given the honorary name Bakhmachskaya ^[11]
• The 57th Bomber Aviation Regiment was given the honorary name Kalinkovichsky ^[12]
• The 517th Fighter Aviation Regiment was given the honorary name Kalinkovichsky ^[12]

•   Rud Nikolai Mikhailovich , lieutenant, pilot of the 745th Bomber Aviation Regiment of the 221st Bomber Aviation Division of the 6th Combined Aviation Corps of the 16th Air Army on October 26, 1944, was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Gold Star No. 3107
•   Savchenko Alexander Petrovich , captain, squadron commander of the 127th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 282th Fighter Aviation Division of the 6th Combined Aviation Corps of the 16th Air Army on February 4, 1944, was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Gold Star No. 3333
•   Khimich Fedor Vasilievich , major, assistant to the Air Shooting Service, commander of the 282nd Fighter Aviation Division of the 6th Combined Aviation Corps of the 16th Air Army on October 26, 1944, was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR. Gold Star No. 4507

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