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Re: The Victories of Luftwaffe Experten (Ost) - New Considerations
Since this thread does deal with VVS pilot training, here are a few sources and comments that might be useful. A tiny sample of the information found in the sources:
Elementary Flying Schools
Pilot cadets were required to have completed at least 9 years of formal education, be members of the Communist Party youth organization (Komsomol), and have completed 25 to 30 hours of Po-2 primary instruction at one of the many aero clubs. This latter requirement, however, was abolished in 1943. Elementary training lasted from 9 to 14 months, after which the graduates were send on to the fighter, bomber, and ground-attack schools. There were at least 114 elementary flying schools in operation during the wartime years, and possibly as many as 162.
Fighter Schools
Fighter pilots were trained at some 60 fighter schools, with the average course of instruction lasting between 12 and 14 months. The principal aircraft used by the schools were the Yak-1, Yak-7 and the Yak-7b.
The sources contain details on just about every one of the hundreds of elementary, fighter, bomber, ground-attack, reconnaissance and specialty flight and ground support schools in the VVS and VMF, their location, organization, number and types of aircraft, number of students and cadre/instructors, commanders, etc. The information was gathered from captured documents and thousands and thousands of interrogations of Soviet airmen taken at the front and at Abt. Ic/Genst.d.Lw. Auswertestelle Ost.
Sources:
(1) NARA WashDC: RG 242/T-321 roll 92, Folder OKL 130: “SU Fliegertruppe: Fliegerschulen, Ersatz- und Lehrverbände.” Dezember 1943. Fremde Luftwaffen Ost/Lw. Führungsstab Ic, in: T-321/roll 92 – frames 403-459.
(2) NARA WashDC: RG 242/T-321 roll 91 “Ausbildungswesen” (VVS), 2.44.
(3) NARA WashDC: RG 242/T-321 roll 91 “Ausbildung d.Jagdflieger" (VVS), Folder OKL 108, 10.44.
(4) NARA WashDC: RG 242/T-321 roll 95 Folder OKL 2340 "Ausbildungsanweisung d.Sowjet Jagfwaffe", 15.11.44.
Also see:
Timin, Mikhail. Air Battles Over the Baltic 1941: The Air War on 22 June 1941 – The Battle for Stalin’s Baltic Region. Warwick (U.K.): Helion & Co., Ltd., 2018. ISBN 978-1-911512-56-1. Hb. Dj. 400p. c.200 photos. 37p. Of color aircraft profiles (3 or 4 per page). 9 color maps. 12 tables. 4 appendices. Index. [This outstanding study has 50+ pages on Soviet fighter pilot training during 1940-41.]
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