VVS P-40 Units

[Kari Lumppio]

Originally Posted by Buz

Gents

Can anyone out there please assist me with information on when 126IAP and 147IAP became Guards Units (I believe the start of April1942 but am uncertain).

126 IAP? Never? See:
http://www.allaces.ru/cgi-bin/s2.cgi...t/p/iap126.dat

26 IAP? Became 26 GIAP November 22th, 1942. See:
http://www.allaces.ru/cgi-bin/s2.cgi...ct/p/iap26.dat

147 IAP Became 20 GIAP April 4th, 1942. See:
http://www.allaces.ru/cgi-bin/s2.cgi...t/p/iap147.dat

Originally Posted by Buz

Additionally can anyone please advise where 19GvIAP was operating during Jun 1942 (which front or sector).

Buz

I would guess somewhat South from Murmansk and North from Louhi (Loukhi). Hannu Valtonen's book Luftwaffen pohjoinen sivusta (in Finnish only) quite certainly has more data but is not at hand here at work. Also see:
http://www.allaces.ru/cgi-bin/s2.cgi...t/p/iap145.dat


More about P-40 in Soviet Union see this excellent article by Valeriy Romanenko: http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/englis...p-40/index.htm

Copy and paste the Russian URLs to translate.google.com (or somesuch) to translate if necessary.

Cheers,
Kari