Tank equipment of Soviet tank formations in Don area. 1942

Tank Equipment of Soviet Tank Formations in the Battle in Don Area, 1942

Tank Equipment in the Armies of the South-Western Front

28 Army on June 29,1942

38 Army on June 30,1942

9 Army on June 29,1942

22 Tank Corps on June 30,1942

Tank Equipment in the Armies of the South Front

Tank Equipment in the Armies of Bryansky Front

Tank Equipment and Losses of 16th Tank Corps (June, 28-July, 13 1942)

Tank Equipment of 4th Tank Corps (40 A) on June, 28 1942

Tank Equipment of 17th Tank Corps on June, 28 1942

Tank Equipment and Losses of 24th Tank Corps (June, 29-July, 20 1942)

Tank Equipment of 13th Tank Corps on June, 28 1942

Tank Equipment of 23th Tank Corps on 7:00 am, June, 30 1942

Tank Equipment and Losses of 21 Army (June, 30-July, 12 1942)

Tank Equipment and Losses of 5th Tank Army (July 6-17, 1942)

2nd Tank Corps

7th Tank Corps

11th Tank Corps

Tank Equipment of Tank Formations of Voronezhsky Front

Tank Equipment and Losses of 18th Tank Corps (July 3-23, 1942)

If total amount of tanks exceeds the sum of named types thereof, it means presence of other types of tanks.

Tank Equipment in the Armies of the South-Western Front

28 Army on June 29,1942

Tank Brigades	KV-1	T-34	M3 Light	T-60	Total
6 Gds.	5	7	-	16	28
65	24^*1	-	-	23^*1	47
90	7^*2	3	15^*2	15^*2	40
Total	36	10	15	54	115

*1 - Including 2 of them in repairment.

*2- Including 1 in repairment.

38 Army on June 30,1942

Tank Brigades	KV-1	T-34	T-60	Mk II Matilda	Mk III Valentine	Total
3	1	2	4	-	-	20
13	-	-	-	-	1	6
36	5	1	13	1	9	23
133	-	-	-	-	-	-
156	2	-	-	-	-	8
159	-	-	20	-	28	48
168	3	10	17	-	-	13
92 STB	7	-	7	-	-	23
Total	19	24	61	9	28	141

9 Army on June 29,1942

Tank Brigades	T-34	BT and T-26	T-60	Mk II Matilda	Mk III Valentine	Total
12	2	-	-	-	-	2
71 STB	-	20	24	2	5	51
132 STB	3	-	3	1	4	11
Total	5	20	27	3	9	64

22 Tank Corps on June 30,1942

Tank Brigades	KV-1	T-34	Mk II Matilda	Mk III Valentine	T-60	Total
36	5	1	1	9	13	29
168	3	10	-	-	17	30
13	-	-	-	1	-	1
Total	8	11	1	10	30	60

Tank Equipment in the Armies of the South Front on July 01, 1942^*1

	KV-1	T-34	Mk II Matilda	Mk III Valentine	BT	T-26	HT-26 (OT-26)	T-60	T-37	Total
121 STB (37A)	8	18	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	46
64 Tank Brig. (18A)	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8
63 Tank Brig. (56A)	9	2	-	-	-	14	6	19	5	55
140 Tank Brig.^*2	9	20	-	-	-	-	-	18	-	47
62 STB^*2	5	1	-	-	18^*3	12^*3	-	-	-	36
75 STB^*2	5	-	-	-	11	-	-	-	-	16
2 Reserve Tank Btln.^*2	1	1	1	1	-	-	-	2	-	6
Total	45	42	1	1	29	26	6	59	5	214

*1 - On July, 28'42 the South Front had only 59 tanks

*2 - In reserve of the Front.

*3 - Dug in ground.

Tank Equipment in the Armies of Bryansky Front

Tank Equipment and Losses of 16th Tank Corps (June, 28-July, 13 1942)

Tank brigade	Type	Available on June 28,1942	Lost	Been sent to repairment on plants	Available on July, 13, 1942
107	KV-1	24	7	17	-
	T-60	27	5	3	19^*1
	Total	51	12	20	19
109	T-34	44	25	13	6
	T-60	21	3	16	2
	Total	65	28	29	8
164	T-34	44	37	-	7^*2
	T-60	21	10	-	11^*2
	Total	65	47	-	18
Total^*3		181	87	49	45

*1-Including 15 in repairment

*2-All in repairment

*3-Besides tanks the corps had: 10 Armored cars BA-10, BA-20 (5 cars in HQ's control company and 5 ones in 15th Motorised Rifle Brigade) and 19 English carriers "Universal" (3 units in each tank brigade and 10 on 15th Motorised Rifle Brigade). In combat 8 "Universals" were lost.

Tank Equipment of 4th Tank Corps (40 A) on June, 26 1942

Tank Brigades	KV-1	T-34	T-70	T-60	Total
45	29	-	4	26	59
47	-	8	13	17	38
102	-	18	13	17	48
Total	29	26	30	60	145

Tank Equipment of 17th Tank Corps on June, 28 1942

Tank Brigades	KV-1	T-34	T-60	Total
66	23	-	26	49
67	-	44	21	65
174	-	44	21	65
Total	23	88	68	179

Tank Equipment and Losses of 24th Tank Corps (June, 29-July, 20 1942)

Tank brigade	Type	Available on June 28,1942	Lost	Available on July, 20, 1942
4 Guards	KV-1	24	24	-
	T-60	27	18	9
	Total	51	41^*1	10
54	T-34	28	23	5
	T-60	25	17	8
	Total	53	40^*2	13
130	T-34	20	12	8
	M3 Light	17	14	3
	Total	37	26^*3	11
Total		141	109	32^*4

*1 - Including irretrievable losses - 14 KV and 15 T-60.

*2 - Including irretrievable losses - 17 T-34 and 17 T-60.

*3 - Including irretrievable losses - 14 KV and 15 T-60. (seems to be an errata in literature source, as in this brigade there were no KV tanks)

*4 - Including operable: 7 T-34, 11 T-60, 3 M3 Light, the others been in repairment.

Tank Equipment of 13th Tank Corps on June, 28 1942*

Tank Brigades	KV-1	T-34	Mk III Valentine	T-60	Total
167	-	-	30	20	50
158	8	20	-	20	48
85	-	31	-	34	65
Total	8	51	30	74	163

*-Besides the tanks the corps had 19 "Universal" carriers (3 units in each brigade and 10 in 20th Motorised brigade) and 8 Rocket launchers BM-8-24 based on T-60 tank chassis in 309th Guards Mortar (Rocket Launcher) Battalion)

Tank Equipment of 23th Tank Corps on 7:00 am, June, 30 1942

Tank Brigades	KV-1	T-34	M3 Middle	M3 Light	T-60	Total
6	-	18	-	-	20	38
91	9	20	-	-	20	49
114	-	-	3	38	-	41
Total	9	38	3	38	40	128

Tank Equipment and Losses of 21 Army (June, 30-July, 12 1942)

Formation	Type	Available on June, 30	Irretrievable combat losses	Available on July, 12
10 Tank Brigade	KV-1	3	3	-
	T-34	12	12	-
	BT	7	-	7^*1
	T-26	5	-	5^*1
	T-60	11	11	-
	Total	38	26	12
478 STB	BT-7	2	1	1
	BT-5	2	2	-
	T-26	14	14	-
	T-40	4	3	1
	T-37, T-38	41	32	9
	BA-10	1	-	1
	Total	64	52	12
8 Motorised NKVD Division	BA-10	5	?	No data
	BA-20	2	?	No data
	Total	7	?	No data
1st Motorised Rifle Brigade	BA-10	18	14	4
	BA-3	1	1	-
	BA-20	1	1	-
	Total	20	16	4
74 Evacuation Company	T-20 "Komsomolets" Prime-movers	3	-	3
Repairing train No. 3	T-20 "Komsomolets" Prime-movers	1	-	1
Armie's HQ guard company	BA-10	1	-	1
Armie's HQ guard company	BA-20	1	-	1
Total Tanks and Armored cars		*135^2**	*94^3**	*41^4**

*1- In thorough repairment in armie's repairing centres.

*2 - Including 101 tanks, 30 Armored cars and 4 prime movers.

*3 - Including 78 tanks and 16 Armored cars

*4 - Including 24 tanks, 7 Armored cars and 4 prime movers.

Tank Equipment and Losses of 5th Tank Army (July 6-17, 1942)

Corps	Brigade	Type	Available on July, 06	Irretrievable losses	Available on July 17	From them need repairment
2	26	T-34	44	28	16	14
		T-60	21	-	21	5
	Total		65	28	37	19
	27	T-34	44	35	9	2
		T-60	21	15	6	-
	Total		65	50	15	-
	148	KV-1	26	26	-	-
		T-60	27	24	3	-
	Total		53	50	3	-
Total in the Corps			183	128	55	21
7	3 Gds.	KV-1	33	23	10	9
		T-60	27	24	3	-
	Total		60	47	13	9
	62	T-34	44	23	21	15
		T-60	21	7	14	6
	Total		65	30	35	21
	87	T-34	52	21	31	23
		T-60	35	7	28	9
	Total		87	28	59	32
Total in the Corps			212	105	107	62
11	3	KV-1	24	8	16	9
		T-60	27	8	19	15
	Total		61	16	35	24
	59	Mk II Matilda	44	31	13	8
		T-60	21	5	16	4
	Total		65	36	29	12
	160	Mk II Matilda	44	20	24	14
		T-60	21	4	17	11
	Total		65	24	41	25
Total in the Corps			181	76	105	61
19 Tank brigade		T-34	44	23	21	12
19 Tank brigade		T-60	21	9	12	2
Total in brigade			65	32	33	14
Total in the Tank Army			641*	341	300	158

*- From that 641 tanks - 83 KV-1, 228 T-34, 88 Mk II Matilda and 242 T-60 (38% from total).

Tank Equipment of Tank Formations of Voronezhsky Front

Tank Equipment and Losses of 18th Tank Corps (July 3-23, 1942)

Tank brigades	Type	Available on July, 03	Reinforcement	Irretrievable losses	Damaged	Available on July, 23
180	KV-1	24	18	12	8	22
180	T-60	27	-	3	4	20
181	T-34	44	20	33	15	16
181	T-60	21	25	11	7	28
110	T-34	44	20	33	11	20
110	T-60	21	-	13	8	-
Total		181	83	105	53	106

Abbreviations

A - Army

BA-Armored Cars

Brig.-Brigade

Gds.- Guards

STB - Separate Tank Battalion.

Literature:

1."1941. "Boi v Pribaltike", Frontovaja Illjustratsija, (2002), No 5