POLISH SIXTH ASSAULT AIR FORCE REGIMENT

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 6, 2001
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• Publication Date: July 11, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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'I'sle Polish tth AssalLv air korce k egimenmy field post number J.LL. 1316, is
located at k~roclaw. It includes about 90 officers and 350 enlisted men.
.fl the pilots are officers, mostly between twenty and twenty-eight years
of age. About half the pilots were born outside Poland, either in the USSR,
in the Baltic countries or in France. There seems to be a tendency to remove
from the regiment all officers who entered the service prior to Vlorld d-,ar II,,
and, these officers are engaged in administrative work. Pilots are well trained,
bu?a enlisted men are poorly trained since their political education is emphasised
2, The 6th Regiment has been commanded since Day 1949 by Soviet Colonel Barshykov.
H.; first deputy and political officer is Captain Jan Cerek. The post of
second deputy and director of pilot training is temporarily held by the regimental
navigator, Captain Antoni Janusop a Polish flier who entered the service prior
to World tsar 11,
3. The regiment is organised as fol.lowss
a. The regimental staff, headed by Soviet Captain Dziuda, of Polish origins
is responsible for regimental intelligence, the regimental offices,
sanitary services, and the regimental echelon, which is equipped with
four 11,--2s for the use of the regimental corn nder, his second assistant,
the regimental navigator and the chief of aerial gunnery. In addition,
the regimental staff directs the four squadrons of the regiment, the liaison
company ; the regimental guards company and ground staff, and the motor pool,
which consists of three cars, eighteen motorcycles and twenty eight Soviet
trucks.
b9 The regimental supply group is composed of an officer in charge of clothing,,
an officer in charge of provisions, another in charge of billets, an
administrative officer and a paymaster. Under the supply group is a
management company, The chief of the supply group is at present the clothing
officer,
c. The regimental engineering section is headed by Captain Corynov, a Soviet
aviation mechanic. The group is composed of squadron and echelon technicians,
aerial engineers (mechanicy pok-ladowi),, flight and ground mechanics (motorzyscK
latajacyci), armament mechanics and various specialists such as radio
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mechanics and operators, . specialists in the repair of navigation equips=
ment, and electricians,
d, The fourth squadron of the reCir..ent, called the personnel squadron.
(eskadra zkadrobwana)a and the fourth echelon of each of the other
squadrons have no planes. in reality, then., the regiment is composed
of three active squadrons each of which has three active echelons.
Each echelon is equipped with four planes.
The regiment is equipped with 40 IL-2 planes which are faster and more
maneuverable than the Spa-:10, though both planes have the same equipment.
The IL-2 is equipped wish two 23-mm. Veya guns, two 7.620mm. Shkass machine
gun.aa and from four to eight rockets, all of -which are fired by the pilot.
The plane also has one 12.04?mn. U.B.T. heavy machine gun mounted in a turret
and fired by a gunner. The planes carry either one 400-600 kg. bomb or two 250
kg. bombs. Late In 1949 the regiment received 10 Soviet IL-10 planes, but these
are stored away and the regiment is not allow to use them.
5. Attachment A is a plan of the airfield of the 6th Regiment at Strachowice,
3.0 km vest of Wroclaw. The airfield., connected with Wroclaw by a good road,,
is small., not modern and is filled in with slat.:. Since the entire field is
herd surface., there are no special runways. On the north end of the field
are wooden hangars and two large workshops. The entrance to the field is
gi,.arded by small guard houses and a control house; the entire field is surrounded
by a barbed-wire fence. In the northwest corner of the field is the airport
used by LOT P a civilian airline. This section is isolated from the military
f ield4,
6. The regimental commander lives in a building near the LO T. airport, while three
be..srracks for troops are located on the extreme north and west sides of the
f .eld. These barracks could house at least three times as ray soldiers as
are now stationed at the field,. All officers and all married non-commissioned
officers are quartered at the field with their families, and a special school
has been established for their children. These quarters and the school com-
prise five buildings on the vest side of the field. Unmarried non?comsisioned
officers live in three barracks on the west side of the field.
70 M jor Josef Raczkowski has been transferred from the Sixth to the Fifth Assault
A "-r Force Regiment,*
Attachments One plan of the Sixth Assault Air Force Regiment at Strachowiceo
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In ~, Lt. Colonel Josef Racskowski is reported
an commander of an air force regiment at Elblag.
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