The results of the combat activities of the DCBF air force during the period of the Great Patriotic War

(According to the Military Historical Report on the military operations of the DCBF Air Force in the Great Patriotic War 1941 - 1945, part three, 1946 year)

First year of war (22.06.1941 - 21.06.1942):

- sorties - 61872
- flying time - 66110 hours
- of which: at night - 10735 hours
- fuel consumption - 19618 tons.

Second year of war (22.06.1942 - 21.06.1943):

- sorties - 28522
- flying time - 27272 hours
- of which: at night - 8640 hours
- gasoline consumption - 11657 tons

Third Year of War (22.06.1943 - 21.06.1944)

- sorties - 33071
- flying time - 34373 hours
- of which: at night - 2276 hours
- gasoline consumption - 19295 tons

Fourth Year of War (22.06.1944 - 9.05. 1945)

- sorties - 34585
- flying time - 46799 hours
- of which: at night - 2010 hours
- gasoline consumption - 32476 tons

Total for the period of the war:

- sorties - 158050
- flying time - 177555 hours
- of which: at night - 24161 hours
- fuel consumption - 83046 tons.

NUMBER OF AIRCONDATED DKBF SHIPS AND TRANSPORT AGAINST WAR DOWN FOR THE PERIOD OF WAR

First year of war: (ships, units / displacement, tons)

- warships - 102 / 13490
- transports - 50/201500
- total for the Air Force - 256/233590

Second year of war:

- warships - 64 / 15610
- transports - 29/56600
- total for the Air Force - 116/84225

The third year of the war:

- warships - 126 / 45995
- transports - 98/406500
- total for the Air Force - 285/466735

The fourth year of the war:

- warships - 194 / 95525
- transports - 299/1660400
- total for the Air Force - 732/1803395

Total sunk during the war:

- warships - 486/170630
- transports and tankers - 467 / 2325000
- auxiliary vessels - 193 / 76650
- small craft - 243/14575

TOTAL OF THE AIR FORCE:

- 1389 ships and vessels with a displacement - 2586855 tons

THE NUMBER OF DAMAGES OF THE DKBF SHIPS AND TRANSPORTATION OF THE OPPONENT DURING THE WAR FOR THE PERIOD OF THE WAR

- warships - 321/201125
- transports and tankers - 213 / 898100
- auxiliary vessels - 203 / 95650
- small craft - 88

TOTAL OF THE AIR FORCE:

 - 825 ships and vessels with a displacement - 1204775 tons.


NUMBER OF DROPPED AIR FORCES OF THE CAP OF A CONFERENCE OF ANTI-AIRCRAFT FOR THE PERIOD OF WAR

Year of War Destroyed in aerial combat Destroyed on the ground Total
first 561 116 677
second 450 73 523
third 601 15 606
fourth 591 11 612
TOTAL 2203 215 2418

Of them:

- bombers - 503;
- fighters - 1577;
- scouts - 115;
- others - 223;
- in total - 2418.


Losses of airplanes of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet Air Force during the Great Patriotic War

Year of war Combat losses Non-combat losses * Written off by acts TOTAL
First 547 183 no 730
Second 266 142 14 422
Third 375 125 51 551
496th 175 77 748 XNUMX
TOTAL 1684 625 142 2451
Combat casualties:

- did not return from assignments - 364
- shot down by fighters - 558
- shot down by anti-aircraft artillery - 308
- broken when landing from combat damage - 353
- destroyed aviation enemy on the ground - 101.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LOSS OF THE FLIGHT OF THE AIR FORCE OF THE KVF FOR THE WAR PERIOD

Losses Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 TOTAL
Killed in aerial battles 251 137 133 185 706
Shot down by anti-aircraft artillery 108 42 161 276 587
Didn't return from assignments 209 122 188 249 768
Killed on performance 
landings on airplanes
with combat damage 11 28 65 100 204


TOTAL:

- combat losses 579 329 547 810 2265
- non-combat losses 96 87 81 93 357
- total losses of which: 675 416 628 903 2622
  - pilots 341 272 329 427 1319
  - navigators 157 68 108 161 494
  - radio gunners 177 76 191 315 759
Combat losses of pilots 293 211 292 378 1174
Non-combat losses of pilots 49 59 43 49 200

* "Non-combat losses" - the loss of aircraft (crew death) for reasons not related to the enemy's impact, as a rule, due to pilot errors in piloting techniques, airborne failures due to poor preparation of airplanes for flights by the engineering staff, etc.

NUMBER OF AVIATION MARINE MINES DELIVERED TO CBF AIR FORCES FOR THE PERIOD OF WAR

Year of war 1st year 2nd year 3rd year 4th year Total
Number of mines delivered 153 171 588 754 1636
Types of mines:
- Mirab - 1 - 9
- MAV - 1 - 46
- AMG - 1 - 281
- AMK - 4 - 476
- A - 5 - 325
- AMD - 500 - 416
- AMD - 1000 - 83

Total: - 1636.

(The largest number of mines - 326 was delivered in the fourth year of the war in the naval base Libava, 77 - in the naval base of Pillau, 24 - in the naval base of Windau, 21 - in the naval base of Memel, 55 - in the mouth of Zapadnaya Dvina, the rest in the areas of. Korpo, Svir system, Danzig, etc.)

AVERAGE MONTHLY CORRECTION OF AIRFUSES OF AIR OF THE FBU FOR THE PERIOD OF WAR

Year of war 1st year 2nd year 3rd year 4th year For the war
Air Force total, (%) 80 85 88 89 85,5 (!)

HEROES OF THE SOVIET UNION AND HEROES OF RUSSIA IN BF Air Force

In the BN 127 air force, people were awarded this rank during the war years, 14 people in the post-war period for the deeds accomplished during the war years. 142– The Hero of the Navy, who worked in the BF Air Force, V. Fadeev, became the Hero. for the rescue of fishermen from the ice in 1994 year.
((51 of 141 Hero died during the war, or were awarded this title posthumously ...))

Four regiment commanders became the Twice Heroes:
- Stepanyan N.G.
- Mazurenko A.E.
- N. Chelnokov
- Rakov V.I.

Posts in which became Heroes:

Air Force Commander Samokhin MI - 1;
Commanders of aviation regiments - 11;
(four of them - Twice)
Deputy, assistant regiment commanders - 5;
Squadron commanders - 28;
Deputy, Assistant Commanders AE - 24;
Flight commander, detachment - 24;
The crew commander (pilot) - 12;
Navigator shelf - 5;
Navigator Squadron - 7;
Navigator, crew, crew - 14;
Commissioner AE and pom. AE Commissioner - 3;
Head PDS AP - 1;
Chief of Staff AP - 1;
Head of Communications AE - 1;
Air gunner - 4.

LOSSES OF SHIPS AND AUXILIARY SHIPS OF GERMANY AND ITS ALLIES FROM THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOVIET Navy IN THE WAR

From aviation - 66% !!!
From mines - 17%
From surface ships - 9%
From submarines - 5%
Coastal artillery - 3%

MODIFICATION OF THE ROLE OF AVIATION AND UNDERWATER BOATS IN DESTRUCTION OF TRANSPORT UNION AGAINST YEARS OF WAR

The number of sunk transports by war years / percentage of the total number of sunk transports
Kind of forces fleet             1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 Total
Aviation 9/17% 10 / 9,6% 70/53% 186 / 72,1% 96 / 73,2% 371 / 54,8%
Submarines 21 / 41,2% 60 / 57,7% 31 / 24,2% 32 / 12,4% 13 / 0,99% 157 / 23,2%

During the war, the role of naval aviation was clearly defined, as the main force in the fighting at sea.
It accounted for OVER 50% tonnage of transport ships and MORE 70% of WARS AND SUBSIDIARY SHIPS,
lost by fascist Germany from the impact of our fleet as a whole!

Comments

[Gamdlislyam]

The article is interesting precisely because of the selection of numbers. Now it remains only to analyze them. It would be good if the author indicated the source of the information, especially since, by the nature of the service, he had access to sealed sources.
Thank you for the article, congratulations on the Victory Day. I will be glad to see this kind of article again.

[Dust]

I would not want to know about this on the eve of Victory Day, but it is very difficult to believe in the reliability of these figures, except in the number of our own losses ...
This was compiled according to reports immediately after the war, but no one made a comparison with the real losses of the Nazis, because there was still no such possibility - well, after the battle, why count the adversary, write more!
Do not consider that I wrote this because of the desire to belittle the significance of the exploits of our people - this is simply out of objectivity ...
Do not forget that almost immediately after the war, they began to understand the real figures of the equipment produced, with losses, and some suffered very severely for the postscripts and misinformation of the country's leadership ...

[Gamdlislyam]

In some ways, I am a colleague of Dust (2) with you, I agree.
About the losses especially. Some numbers puzzled me. For instance:

Killed on performance
landings on airplanes
with combat damage 11 28 65 100

It turns out that at the end of the war, as many died as in the previous three years. Is the dog buried here:

dust (2)
almost immediately after the war, they began to understand the real figures of the equipment produced, with losses, and some suffered very severely for registration and misinformation of the country's leadership ...