Looking for VVS airfields info

[muggs_ro]

Hello all, can someone please direct me to an online resource or a book where VVS activity is covered in Romania from 1944-1945 ?

Thanks in advance

[Larry deZeng]

In Russian, Romanian, German or English?

[muggs_ro]

I don't know Russian so any other option would be great, i think i got Romanian covered though.

[Larry deZeng]

No books. Just the original Fremde Luftwaffen Ost records at BA-MA Freiburg and on microfilm in RG 242/T-321 at NARA WashDC. Lots of stuff on the VVS in Romania Aug 44 - Apr 45, but it badly scattered over many folders and files. You would have to search through a great deal of material to find the information on Romania.

I have seen this material so I know it exists. There is OOB on VVS forces in Romania, signals intercepts and information from POW interrogations of Soviet air crew who had been stationed in Romania and were later shot down over Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc. There is quite a bit of it but very scattered.

L.

[muggs_ro]

Many thanks Larry, at least i know where to look at directly, when i'll have the financial means i'll surely try to get hold of them.

The content there seems to be top-notch..!

[muggs_ro]

Just a quick question Larry, are these the correct finding aids ?
http://maparchive.ru/nara-doc/luftwaffe/T321A.pdf
http://maparchive.ru/nara-doc/luftwaffe/T321B.pdf

[Larry deZeng]

Everything is in the T-321B listing. You should take a look at all of the Lufwaffenführungsstab Ic and Ic/FLO files in the following rolls:

80 - 97
121 - 125
262 - 274

Everything of interest is in those rolls. Will it give you day-by-day details on what every VVS command, air and ground unit in Romania was doing from 19 Aug 44 to 8 May 45? No, but you will find a lot of excellent information not available elsewhere, except maybe in the Russian military archives in Podolsk, outside of Moscow.

L.

[muggs_ro]

Many thanks indeed Larry, every little bit of info from there will be most helpful for me. And indeed i'm sure they're pretty much impossible to get from other places.

I just went through the guide...the info there is STUNNING !

[Larry deZeng]

Hi muggs_ro (Dan, perhaps?),

I am hoping to contact you by resurrecting this nearly 2 year old thread. As one of the most renown and respected authorities on the AAR duringh World War II, can you recommend books or websites that provide the wartime bases for each unit and the dates each was based or stationed at a particular airfield? I know about the website www.worldwar2.ro, which gives me this information for the AAR fighter units, but not for the AAR bomber, reconnaissance and other formations. Any help would be appreciated!

Larry deZ.

[HGabor]

Some losses, a few on actual airfields:
(Unit, Type and S/N of plane, Date of loss, Area, Pilot)

17 BA, 244 БАД, 260 БАП, A-20G Boston, S/N: 42-86696, Red '8', 07/09/1944, Maltezi, Ro., л-т Морозов

5 BA, 218 БАД, 452 БАП, A-20G Boston, S/N: 42-53901, 09/09/1944, Tekucs, мл.л-т Аксенов

5 BA, 218 БАД, 48 БАП, A-20G Boston, S/N: 42-54280, R-2600-23 engines: 42-154303 & 42-154424, 19/09/1944, Kolozsvár-S (now: Cluj-Napoca), л-т Финогенов

5 BA, 218 БАД, 48 БАП, A-20G Boston, S/N: 42-54200, R-2600-23 engines: 42-82843 & 42-82868, 20/09/1944, Kisselyk (now: Şeica Mică), ст.л-т Николаев

5 BA, 231 ШАД, 568 ШАП, IL-2 m3 Sturmovik, S/N: 1871175, 21/09/1944, Torda-NW, 5 km, к-н Агрба

5 BA, 218 БАД, 453 БАП, A-20G Boston, S/N: 43-21689, 22/09/1944, Kolozsvár, airfield (now: Cluj-Napoca), л-т Малов Иван Александрович

5 BA, 7 ГвШАД, 130 ГвШАП, IL-2 m3 Sturmovik, One of them: S/N: 10338, 302787, 302949, 1873880, 11634, 302765, 23/09/1944, Torda-W (now: Turda-W), гв.мл.л-т Кравченко

5 BA, 7 ГвШАД, 131 ГвШАП, IL-2 m3 Sturmovik, One of them: S/N: 10338, 302787, 302949, 1873880, 11634, 302765, 23/09/1944, Torda-W (now: Turda-W), мл.л-т Пyxов

5 BA, 7 ГвШАД, 131 ГвШАП, IL-2 m3 Sturmovik, One of them: S/N: 10338, 302787, 302949, 1873880, 11634, 302765, 23/09/1944, Torda-W (now: Turda-W), гв.р-й Аркаев

5 BA, 7 ГвШАД, 130 ГвШАП, IL-2 m3 Sturmovik, S/N: 1877070, 01/10/1944, Torda-S, 4 km (now: Turda-S), мл.л-т Семеряков

5 BA, 312HБАД, 392 HБАП, Po-2 / U-2, S/N: 7282, 01/10/1944, Gáldtő (now: Galtiu), ряд. Викулин

5 BA, 279 ИАД, 192 ИАП, Lavochkin La-5F, S/N: 39214394, white "94", engine: 65032337, 06/10/1944, Temesgyarmat airfield (now: Giarmata), мл.л-т Чарушников

5 BA, 3 ГвШАК, Lisunov Li-2, S/N: 1846508, 07/10/1944, Déva, ?


Almost entirely 5th Air Army of 2nd Ukrainian Front. Hope this helps a bit.

Gabor