Airborne Brigade, Staff.

April 23, 1941

September 05, 2004

• Headquarters
• Bicycle recon company (113 bicycles)
• Four airborne battalions in each:
  • Signals platoon
  • Recon platoon
  • Three airborne companies in each:
    • Headquarters
    • Three squads 12 men 1 light machine-gun in each
    • 24 knapsack flame throwers
  • Machine-gun platoon
    • 4 heavy machine-guns
  • Mortar platoon
    • 6 50mm mortars
  • Artillery platoon
    • 2 45mm guns
  • Medical platoon
• Antitank artillery battery
  • 6 45mm AT guns
• Antiaircraft machine gun company
  • 6 12,7mm DShK AA machine-guns
• Junior leaders military school

Total:

• Manpower - 2588
• 45mm AT guns - 12
• 50mm mortars - 18
• Knapsack flame throwers - 288
• Heavy machine-guns - 16
• Light machine-guns - 108

    In landing actions two battalions made parachute operational group and two other battalions - glider operational group. Their separate platoons also were uniting forming companies: Signals, bicycle-recon, machine-gun; mortar and artillery batteries.

    The latter group together with AT battery and AA company of brigade, was transmitted to landing party.

Corps landing party was forming based on corps artillery regimen and tank battalion. Being distributed among brigades each such a group included artillery battalion (regular battalion of a corps artillery regiment plus 45mm guns of brigades and battalions), tank company (regular company of corps tank battalion), mortar company and antiaircraft company (both of brigade subordination)

Literature

1. www.rkka.ru