7th Assault Aviation Corps

7th Assault Aviation Corps
7 ShAK
Il-2 attack
Active 1943-1949
Disbanded 10 January 1949
Country Soviet Union
Branch Air Force
Engagements World War II

The 7th Assault Aviation Corps (7 ShAK) was an aviation corps of the Red Air Forcethat fought in World War II.

Names

  • 10th Composite Air Corps
  • 7th Attack Air Corps
  • 7th Attack Air Corps Sevastopol
  • 68th Attack Air Corps Sevastopol

History

The 7th Assault Aviation Corps was formed on 21 July 1943 from the 10th Mixed Aviation Corps.[1] It received the Sevastopol honorific for its support of the Crimean Offensive. The corps was renumbered as the 68th Assault Aviation Corps on 10 January 1949.[2]

Operational army

  • C 21 July 1943 to 16 May 1944, just 301 days [3]
  • C 17 August 1944 to 16 April 1945, just 243 days,[3]

Total: 544 days

Subordinations

UnitPeriod
8th Air Army, Southern Front07/21/1943 - 10/20/1943
8th Air Army, 4th Ukrainian Front20/10/1943 - 16/05/1944
Reserve of the Supreme High Command05/16/1944 - 06/01/1944
Air Force Kharkov Military District06/01/1944 - 17/08/1944
14th Air Army,3rd Baltic Front08/17/1944 - 01/10/1944
3rd Air Army, 1st Baltic Front01/10/1944 - 02/01/1945
15th Air Army, 2nd Baltic Front02/01/1945 - 03/01/1945
15th Air Army, Courland Army Group, Leningrad Front03/01/1945 - 16/04/1945
Reserve of the Supreme High Command04/16/1945 - 06/10/1945
14th Air Army, Carpathian Military District06/10/1945 - 02/20/1949
57th Air Army, Carpathian Military District02/20/1949 - 04/01/1956

Composition

  • 206th Melitopol Red Banner Assault Aviation Division
    • 503rd Order of Kutuzov Attack Aviation Regiment
    • 686th Sevastopol Red Banner Attack Aviation Regiment (1944-1945)
    • 806th Order of Suvorov Attack Aviation Regiment
    • 807th Sevastopol Attack Aviation Regiment
  • 289th Nikopol Red Banner Assault Aviation Division
    • 232nd Attack Aviation Regiment
    • 686th Sevastopol Red Banner Attack Aviation Regiment (1943-1944)
    • 947th Sevastopol Attack Aviation Regiment
  • 236th Fighter Aviation Division (since 07.21.1943 at 08.1943 and 01.1944, the on 05.1944 g)

References

  1. ↑ Order NKO number 0087 of July 21, 1943
  2. ↑ General Staff directive number ORG / 1/120016 of 10 January 1949
  3. 1 2 List number 4 offices buildings that were part of the army in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Moscow. 1956.
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