8th Mechanised Corps

Updated September 29, 2006
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As different sources gives different data, I made several tables
Later I hope to give structure of this Mechanised Corps. Now only brief info is available here

 

upStrength of the 8th Mechanised Corps on June 22'41 [1]
  KV T-34 BT T-26 Fl. T-37/38/40 Total*
12th TD 61 100 147 61 60?*1 27 456?
34th TD 8 - 26 262*2 30 4*3 330*4
7th MD - - 115 - - 19 134
Total* 69*5 100 288*6 323 90? 50 920?*4

 

* - Row "Total" formed by AMVAS

*1 - In the 24th Tank Regiment/12th TD there was a battalion of flame thrower tanks. By staff it had 54 vehicles. Number 60 was estimated from resulting cell. In the book corresponding cell was empty. According to [8] overall amount of flame thrower tanks in the corps was 50.

*2 - 77 T-26 equipped with radio station, 173 line T-26, 10 two-turreted T-26 and two SU-5.

*3 - All T-37.

*4 - The 34th TD also had 48 T-35 tanks (6 out of them needed repair). I don't know how they are included in this table in original source.

*5 - including 2 KV-2 (data of A.Isaev. [1] ). Also following other tables I can't exclude variant when there were 69 KV-1+2 KV-2

*6 - including 14 BT-2s and 109 BT-5 [1]

 

...continuation NEW

  76mm guns 37mm AA guns 152mm how. 122mm how. Total* Automobiles Tractors Motorcycles
 
Artillery
Transport
12th TD 4 ? 12 12 28+? 1288 127 ?
34th TD 4 4 8 8 24 715 46 -
7th MD 16 ? 12 16 44+? 1134 155 ?
Total* 24 4+? 32 36 96+? 3137 328 ?

* - Row "Total" formed by AMVAS

upStrength of the 8th Mechanised Corps on June 22'41 [2]
  KV*1 T-34 BT T-26*2 T-37/38/40 Other*3 Total
12th TD 61 100 147 61 27 60 456
34th TD 10 - 26 230 34 20 320
7th MD - - 115 - 19 11 145
Total 71 100 288 291 80 91 921

 

*1 - 5 out of them in repair. 2 KVs in reserve of the corps reconnaissance.

*2 - prevailed late modifications of T-26s

*3 - 49 T-35, 17 T-27, 25 OT-133

 

upStrength of the 8th Mechanised Corps on June 22'41 [3]
  KV T-35 T-34 BT T-26 T-37/38/40 Total BA*
Total 71 49 100 277 344 17 858 184

* - Armored Cars

 

upStrength of the 8th Mechanised Corps on June 22'41 and losses by Aug. 1'41 [3,4] NEW
  KV T-35 T-34 BT T-26 T-37/40 Total* BA
Available on June 22'41 71 49 100 277 344 17 858 184
Under repair in workshops and plants 5 1   46 16 - 68 7
Left in winter quarters 6 10 5 46 17 - 84 9
Lost touch or missed 10 8 40 77 120 4 259 52
Transferred to other units - - 22 27 7 - 56 16
Irreparable losses 28 - 18 67 172 6 291 48
Available on Aug. 1'41 6 - 47 98 45 3 199 63

* - Row "Total" formed by AMVAS

Rem. AMVAS: This data in original document are called preliminary and numbers of losses are given only for confirmed ones.

The table in both [3] and [4] orignates from the same "Doklad"

 

upStrength of the 8th Mechanised Corps on June 22'41 and Aug. 1'41 [3] NEW
  Vehicles Manpower
  Transport Special cars Commanders Junionr commanders Soldiers Total
Numbers on June 22 2541 631 3021 6688 22218 31927
Numbers on Aug. 1 1602 299 2488 2967 12182 17637
upStrength of the 8th Mechanised Corps ~on July 2 [6] NEW

12th Tank Division + 7th Motorised Division included:

19000 men; 207 tanks (43 KV, 31 T-34, 69 BT-7, 57 T-26, 7 T-40); 21 armored cars.

 

On July 5 134 tanks and 5 tractors were sent to Kharkov plant in repair.

upStrength of the 8th Mechanised Corps on July 17, 1941 [5] NEW
Type Numbers
KV 14
T-34 14
BT-7 16
T-26 13
Tanks total *1 57
Armored Cars 34
Passenger cars 41
GAZ trucks 864
ZIS trucks 479
Tractors 25
Wheeled and auxiliary vehicles total 1409

Rem. AMVAS. Since July 8 the corps staid in reserve.

*1 - In original written: "fighting vehicles"

 
upStrength of the 12th Tank Division on August 16, 1941 [7] NEW
KV T-34 BT T-26 Total
4 53 0 0 57

 

Rem.: On the South-Western and Southern Fronts 350 tanks are mentioned in repair and didn't assigned to any division.

Abbreviations

HQ - Headquarters

Fl. - Flame thrower

MD - Motorised Division

SSBn - Separate Signals Battalion

TD - Tank Division

TBn - Tank Battalion

Literature
  1. A. Isaev, "1941. Boi na Ukraine", Frontovaja Illyustratsia, 4/2004
  2. I. Moshchanskiy, "Operatsia Barbarossa. Tankovye Boi na Zapadno Ukraine", Military Chronicle, Bronetankoviy Muzei No. 3, Moscow, 2002
  3. Vedomost' o Boevom i chislennom sostave Abtvoisk na 22 Ijyunia 1941 goda (cited from photocopy in T. Abashidze, I. Moschansky, "Kievskaya Strategicheskaya Oboronitelnaya operatsia. Part I. Tragedia pod Umanju" , 2003
  4. TsAMO, f.38,op.11360,d.2 (cited after mechcorps.rkka.ru)
  5. Spravka Nachal'nika Avtobronetankovogo upravleniya Yugo-Zapadnogo fronta Komanduyushchimi Vojskami fronta o sostoyanii Avtobronetankovykh vojsk na 17 Iyulia 1941 goda.//Sbornik boyevykh dokumentov vol. 36, Moscow, Voyennoye Izdatelstvo Ministerstva Oborony, 1958
  6. E. Drig, "Mekhanizirovannye korpusa RKKA v boyu", AST, Moscow, 2005
  7. Spravka Zamestitelya Narodnogo Komissara Oborony Soyuza SSR ot 17 Avgusta 1941 g Stavke Verkhovnogo glavnokomandovaniya o Nalichii Material'noy chasti tankov v Yug-Zapadnom i Yuzhnom Frontakh no 16 Avgusta 1941 g//Sbornik boyevykh dokumentov vol. 40, Moscow, Voyennoye Izdatelstvo Ministerstva Oborony, 1960
  8. "Nalichiye khimicheskikh tankov v mekhanizirovannykh korpusakh po sostoyaniyu na 22 iyunia 1941 goda",Doklad nachalnika 1-go otdela GABTU Krasnoy Armii Inzhenera 1-go ranga Yukina, (cited from M. Kolomiets, M.Svirin, "T-26: Mashiny na ego baze", Part 2, Moscow, Frontovaya Illustratsiya/Frontline Illustration No. 4/2003)
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