8th strike aviation group

8th shock
aviation group
8th shock; aviation group
Troops	Air force
Type of army	attack aircraft ; fighter aircraft ; bomber aircraft
Formation	04/05/1942
Dissolution (transformation)	05/18/1942
Successor	226th Assault Aviation Division
Battle way
	The Great Patriotic War (1942) : air support for units and formations of the Bryansk Front;

The 8th strike aviation group is an operational aviation group in the Great Patriotic War , created to solve operational (operational-tactical) tasks independently and as part of the fronts in cooperation with troops (forces) and means of other types of armed forces (military branches (forces)) in operations of the ground forces and naval forces.

Title

IL-2 group aircraft

8th strike aviation group

Create Group

The 8th strike aviation group was formed on April 5, 1942 on the basis of the Order of the NPO ^[1] .

Reorganizing a group

The 8th strike group on May 18, 1942, by order of the NCO ^[2] was directed to the formation of the 226th assault aviation division.

In the army

As part of the army ^[3] :

from April 5, 1942 to May 18, 1942.

Group Commander

Rank	FULL NAME.	Period
aviation lieutenant general	Kravchenko Grigory Panteleevich ^[4]	04/05/1942 - 05/18/1942

As part of formations and associations

Period	Front (district)	army	note
04/05/1942	Headquarters	SVGK strike aviation groups
04/05/1942	Headquarters	SVGK strike aviation groups	in operational command of the air force of the Bryansk front
05/18/1942	Headquarters	SVGK strike aviation groups	reformed

Composition

Period	Parts	Note
04/06/1942 - 05/15/1942	563rd Fighter Aviation Regiment ^[5] ^[6]	Yak-1 , became part of the 205th Iad
04/09/1942 - 05/18/1942	504th Assault Aviation Regiment ^[6]	IL-2 , became part of the 226th Shad
04/09/1942 - 05/12/1942	840th Long-Range Bomber Aviation Regiment ^[6]	DB-3 , became part of the 113th add-on
04/07/1942 - 05/18/1942	638th Night Bomber Aviation Regiment ^[6]	Po-2 , became part of the 284th bad

Participation in operations and battles

operations of the Bryansk Front

Notes

↑ Order of NCO No. 0064 of April 1, 1942
↑ Order of NPO No. 000091 of May 18, 1942
↑ Collective of authors. List No. 3 of field directorates of the High Command, directorates of operational groups, defensive areas, fortified areas and aviation-based areas that were part of the army during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) / Pokrovsky. - The Ministry of Defense of the USSR. The Central Military Archive .. - Moscow: Military Publishing House, 1956. - T. Appendix to the Directive of the General Staff of 1956 No. 168780. - 88 p.
↑ Collective of authors . World War II: Divisional Commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary / V.P. Goremykin. - M .: Kuchkovo field, 2014 .-- T. 2. - S. 618. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9950-0341-0 .
↑ Anokhin V. A., Bykov M. Yu. All Stalin's fighter aviation regiments. The first complete encyclopedia. - Popular science publication. - M .: Yauza-press, 2014 .-- S. 213. - 944 p. - 1,500 copies - ISBN 978-5-9955-0707-9 .
↑ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ Collective of authors. The combat structure of the Soviet Army. Part II (January - December 1942) / Grylev A.N .. - Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff. - M .: Military Publishing House of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, 1966. - 266 p.

Literature

Team of authors. List No. 3 of field directorates of the High Command, directorates of operational groups, defensive areas, fortified areas and aviation-based areas that were part of the army during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) / Pokrovsky. - The Ministry of Defense of the USSR. The Central Military Archive .. - Moscow: Military Publishing House, 1956. - T. Appendix to the Directive of the General Staff of 1956 No. 168780. - 88 p.
Anokhin V. A., Bykov M. Yu. All Stalin's fighter aviation regiments. The first complete encyclopedia. - Popular science publication. - M .: Yauza-press, 2014 .-- S. 213. - 944 p. - 1,500 copies - ISBN 978-5-9955-0707-9 .
Team of authors. The combat structure of the Soviet Army. Part II (January - December 1942) / Grylev A.N .. - Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff. - M .: Military Publishing House of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, 1966. - 266 p.
Team of authors . World War II: Divisional Commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary / V.P. Goremykin. - M .: Kuchkovo field, 2014 .-- T. 2. - S. 618. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9950-0341-0 .

Links

List of operations of the armed forces of the USSR in World War II
Soviet aviation in World War II (inaccessible link)
Heroes of World War II
Air force
World War II Aviators

[1] Order of NCO No. 0064 of April 1, 1942

[2] Order of NPO No. 000091 of May 18, 1942

[3] Collective of authors. List No. 3 of field directorates of the High Command, directorates of operational groups, defensive areas, fortified areas and aviation-based areas that were part of the army during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) / Pokrovsky. - The Ministry of Defense of the USSR. The Central Military Archive .. - Moscow: Military Publishing House, 1956. - T. Appendix to the Directive of the General Staff of 1956 No. 168780. - 88 p.

[KD-4] Collective of authors . World War II: Divisional Commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary / V.P. Goremykin. - M .: Kuchkovo field, 2014 .-- T. 2. - S. 618. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9950-0341-0 .

[I-5] Anokhin V. A., Bykov M. Yu. All Stalin's fighter aviation regiments. The first complete encyclopedia. - Popular science publication. - M .: Yauza-press, 2014 .-- S. 213. - 944 p. - 1,500 copies - ISBN 978-5-9955-0707-9 .

[BS42-6] ¹ ² ³ ⁴ Collective of authors. The combat structure of the Soviet Army. Part II (January - December 1942) / Grylev A.N .. - Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff. - M .: Military Publishing House of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, 1966. - 266 p.