96. OIAE VVS BF

[Nokose]

The book "Воздушная Битва За Севастополь 1941-1942" by Мирослав Морозов copyright 2007.

[Mirek Wawrzynski]

The info is from this book. Very deep study, only in Russia, written by
Валерий Спичаков (Valeryi Spitsakov)

http://www.pinsk-flot.narod.ru/

Regards
Mirek Wawrzynski

PS
It was reccon squadron (46. OAE, so 46 ORAE is also correct), Neman R-10 was also reccon, as light bomber plane.

[oquaig]

Thank You Mirek,

I will look the book up. I can read a little Russian.

Regards
Oquaig

[oquaig]

Originally Posted by Mirek Wawrzynski

I wonder if someone, has exacte data concerning amount of all plane in 96. OIAE VVS CzF on 22.06.1941 (combats, non-combats).

Many times I have met with following data: 14 I-15 bis, 3 I-153 (about 20 biplane fighters), but there were no information about such planes like UTI-4 or U-2 or other non-combats palnes on its strengh, which should be too? Other units had such planes.

Information given in nice book written by Denes Bernard, Dmitrij Karelnko and J. L. Roba, From Bararossa to Odessa vol. I, is very inaccurate (40 I-153 in Nokolayev, p. 12)!

Regards,
mirekw

This web site my interest you:
http://wap.imf.forum24.ru/?1-5-0-00000076-000-20-0


It gives strength of 96 OIAE and other units
96 UAE - I-153 - 3/3, I-15 - 13/12, UT-1 - 1/1, UT-2 - 1/1, U-2 – 2/1

regards
Oquaig

[Mirek Wawrzynski]

It gives strength of 96 OIAE and other units
96 UAE - I-153 - 3/3, I-15 - 13/12, UT-1 - 1/1, UT-2 - 1/1, U-2 – 2/1

As on 1.06.1941.

Great thanks for this info, reading the whole post from the below link needs a lot of patience, but a lot of usefull information :-)

Regards,
mirekw

[oquaig]

You are welcome, I was really happy to see numbers for Pacific Fleet aircraft and a full list of smaller units.

Regards
Oquag

[Mirek Wawrzynski]

Yes, VVS Pacific Fleet was mostly omitted in OdB for 22.061941, but it is wrong. It supported other fleets for whole war sending crews + planes. Itwas also very strong air force naval unit.

Regards,
mirekw