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The 7th Assault Aviation Corps (7 ShAK) - was a corps of the Red Air Force, that took part in the fighting World War II.

Names[]

RIAN archive 225 IL-2 attacking

Il-2 attack

  • 10th Composite Air Corps
  • 7th Attack Air Corps
  • 7th Attack Air Corps Sevastopol
  • 68th Attack Air Corps Sevastopol

Formation[]

7 th Attack Air Corps July 21, 1943 transformed from a 10 th Composite Air Corps [1]

Redesignation[]

7 th Attack Aviation Sebastopol housing 10 January 1949 on the basis of Directive General Staff renamed the 68th Attack Aviation Sevastopol Corps.[2]

Operational army[]

  • C 21 July 1943 to 16 May 1944, just 301 days [3]
  • C 17 August 1944 to 16 April 1945, just 243 days,[3]

Total: 544 days

Subordinations[]

Unit Period
8th Air Army, Southern Front 07/21/1943 - 10/20/1943
8th Air Army, 4th Ukrainian Front 20/10/1943 - 16/05/1944
Reserve of the Supreme High Command 05/16/1944 - 06/01/1944
Air Force Kharkov Military District 06/01/1944 - 17/08/1944
14th Air Army,3rd Baltic Front 08/17/1944 - 01/10/1944
3rd Air Army, 1st Baltic Front 01/10/1944 - 02/01/1945
15th Air Army, 2nd Baltic Front 02/01/1945 - 03/01/1945
15th Air Army, Courland Army Group, Leningrad Front 03/01/1945 - 16/04/1945
Reserve of the Supreme High Command 04/16/1945 - 06/10/1945
14th Air Army, Carpathian Military District 06/10/1945 - 02/20/1949
57th Air Army, Carpathian Military District 02/20/1949 - 04/01/1956

Composition[]

  • 206th Melitopol Red Banner Assault Aviation Division
    • 503rd Order of Kutuzov Attack Aviation Regiment
    • 686th Sevastopol Red Banner Attack Aviation Regiment (1944-1945)
    • 806th Order of Suvorov Attack Aviation Regiment
    • 807th Sevastopol Attack Aviation Regiment
  • 289th Nikopol Red Banner Assault Aviation Division
    • 232nd Attack Aviation Regiment
    • 686th Sevastopol Red Banner Attack Aviation Regiment (1943-1944)
    • 947th Sevastopol Attack Aviation Regiment
  • 236th Fighter Aviation Division (since 07.21.1943 at 08.1943 and 01.1944, the on 05.1944 g)

References[]

  1. Order NKO number 0087 of July 21, 1943
  2. General Staff directive number ORG / 1/120016 of 10 January 1949
  3. 3.0 3.1 List number 4 offices buildings that were part of the army in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Moscow. 1956.
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