5th Fighter Aviation Regiment

5th Fighter Aviation Regiment
5-й истребительный авиационный полк
FoundedSeptember 7, 1938
DisbandedMay 5, 1947
CountrySoviet Union
BranchSoviet Air Forces
TypeFighter aviation regiment
Garrison/HQKamen-Rybolov, Primorsky Krai
EngagementsSoviet–Japanese War
Soviet invasion of Manchuria
Harbin–Kirin Operation
Sorties102[1]

The 5th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Russian: 5-й истребительный авиационный полк) was a fighter regiment of the Soviet Air Forces (Военно-воздушные силы) which took part in the Soviet–Japanese War.

History

The regiment was formed on September 7, 1938, in the Siberian Military District.[2] On May 31, 1939, the regiment was transferred to cover the 1st Red Banner Army until June 15, 1939.

On June 22, 1941, the regiment, located at Sukhaya Rechka, was part of 32nd Mixed Aviation Division (or 33rd? ru:33-я смешанная авиационная дивизия), earmarked to support 1st Red Banner Army, alongside two other fighter regiments and a bomber regiment.[3]

From August 1942, the regiment formed part of the 249th Fighter Aviation Division [ru].[4]

On August 9, with the Soviet entry into the Pacific War, the 5th Fighter Aviation Regiment was moved to the front and flew sorties until September 3rd, 1945.[5]

The regiment was disbanded on either April 1, 1947,[6] or May 5, 1947 as part of the 190th Fighter Aviation Division [ru] at the Kamen-Rybolov airfield.[7]

Commanders

List of commanders for the entire duration of the regiment:[8]

  • Colonel Lisin Vasilsi Timofeevich (1938)
  • Lieutenant colonel Manaseyev Dmitry Ivanovich (December 2, 1942 – December 31, 1945)

Aircraft operated

Aircraft used by the 5th Fighter Aviation Regiment[9]
From To Aircraft Variant
1938 1944 Polikarpov I-15 I-15bis
1939 1944 Polikarpov I-16
1944 1945 Yakovlev Yak-7 Yak-7B
1945 1947 Yakovlev Yak-3

See also

Strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II

References

Citations

  1. ^ Vse istrebitelʹnye aviapolki Stalina : pervaia polnaia ėntsiklopediia. Moskva: Yauza-press. 2014. pp. 54–55, 944. ISBN 978-5-9955-0707-9.
  2. ^ Order of the Military Council No. M/001168 of 31.08.1938
  3. ^ Niehorster, http://niehorster.org/012_ussr/41_oob/far-east/air.html.
  4. ^ Holm, www.ww2.dk, see below.
  5. ^ Multiple authors. List No. 12 aviation regiments of the Air Force of the Red Army, which were part of the Active Army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 / Pokrovsky. — Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Military-Scientific Directorate of the General Staff. — Moscow: Voenizdat, 1960. - T. Appendix to the Directive of the General Staff of January 18, 1960 No. 170023. — 96 s.
  6. ^ https://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/iap/5iap.htm
  7. ^ Directive of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR No. org/1/470260 of 27.02.1947
  8. ^ Vse istrebitelʹnye aviapolki Stalina : pervaia polnaia ėntsiklopediia. Moskva: Yauza-press. 2014. pp. 332, 944. ISBN 978-5-9955-0707-9.
  9. ^ Order of the 9th VA No. 00400 of 15.08.1944

Bibliography

  • Multiple authors. List No. 12 aviation regiments of the Air Force of the Red Army, which were part of the Active Army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 / Pokrovsky. — Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Military-Scientific Directorate of the General Staff. — Moscow: Voenizdat, 1960. - T. Appendix to the Directive of the General Staff of January 18, 1960, No. 170023.
  • Vse istrebitelʹnye aviapolki Stalina : pervaia polnaia ėntsiklopediia. Moskva: Yauza-press. 2014 ISBN 978-5-9955-0707-9. Also rendered as Anokhin V.A. Bykov M.Yu. All fighter regiments of Stalin. The first complete encyclopedia. — Popular science edition. - Moscow: Yauza-press, 2014. - S. 304–308. — 944 p."