19^th Mechanised Corps

October 27, 2006

Later I hope to give structure of this Mechanised Corps. Now only brief info is available here

Strength of the 19th Mechanised Corps on June 22'41 [3]

KV	T-34+KV	T-34	T-26	Other	Total
5 [4]	5 [5]	2 [4] 9 [2]	291 [4]	152 [4]	279 [2] 280 [4] 450 [4] 453 [5]

In the 43rd TD there were ≤ 5 T-34s [7]

Strength of the 19th Mechanised Corps on June 22'41 [1,6,9]

	KV	T-34	T-26	T-37/38/40	Total
40th TD	-	-	19	139	158
43rd TD	5	2	230	-	237
213th MD	-	-	42	13	55
Total*	5	2	291	152	450

* - Row "Total" formed by AMVAS probably it can be a bit greated because of other small units

Artillery Equipment on June 22'41 [6,9]

	76mm guns	37mm AA	152mm How.	122mm How.	Total*	82mm Mortars	50mm mortars	Total*
40th TD	0	4	4	8	16	12	27	39
43rd TD	4	4	12	12	32	12	22	34
213th MD	8	4	0	4	16	8	60	68
Total*	12	12	16	24	64	32	109	141

* - Rows "Total" formed by AMVAS

Mechanical Traction Vehicles on June 22'41 [6,9]

	Automobiles	Tractors	Motorcycles	Total*
40th TD	157	5	0	162
43rd TD	630	15	18	663
213th MD	140	47	0	187
Total*	927	67	18	1012

* - Rows "Total" formed by AMVAS

Strength of the 19th Mechanised Corps on June 22'41 and losses by Aug. 1'41 [8]

	KV	T-34	T-26	T-37/40	Total*
Available on June 22'41	5	9	252	13	279
Under repair in workshops and plants	-	-	5	-	5
Left in winter quarters	2	-	14	-	16
Lost touch or missed	1	-	24	-	25
Transferred to other units	-	-	-	-	-
Irreparable losses	2	-	169	13	184
Available on Aug. 1'41	-	4	24	-	28

* - Row "Total" formed by AMVAS

Strength of the 19th Mechanised Corps

Date	KV	T-34	T-26	T-26 Fl.	Total	BA	Guns	Manpower	Source
July 10		30	35	13^*1	78^*2		5	~3500^*3	[14]
July 15	4	7	22		33	2			[3,11]
July 17		31	46		77	2			[12]

*1 - After [16] the corps had 47 flame thrower tanks

*2 - resulting cell formed by AMVAS

*3 - Part of its staff which had been received from Western Ukraine deserted.

Strength of the 19th Mechanised Corps on July 15 [15]

Unit	Manpower	Horses	Tanks	Guns	Automobiles
HQ	315	-	-	-	-
40th TD	2010	-	30	-	99
43rd TD	2625	-	52	17	342
213rd MD	No reports

Strength of the 19th Mechanised Corps on July 17 [12]

Passenger cars	GAZ trucks	ZIS trucks	Tractors	Total
25	160	199	37	421

Manpower of the 43rd Tank Division on June 22, 1941 [10]

Commanders	Junior commanders	Soldiers	Total
711	1054	6669	8434

Equipment of the 43rd Tank Division on June 22,1941 [10]

Tanks^*2				Vehicles^*1			Guns
KV	T-34	T-26+Fl.	BT	Trucks & Special cars	Fuel trucks	Tractors	152mm	122mm	76mm	37mm AA ^*3
5	2	230	-	571	69	15	4	12	4	4

*1 - 150 automobiles were in repair.

*2 - All of them operable, but very worned. United group of the division (86th Tank Regiment) took 2 KV + 2 T-34 + 75 T-26 the field on June 26. On June 29 only 1 KV was operable, other were evecuated to rears [13]

*3 - All of them out of ammo.

Losses of the 43rd Tank Division [10]

Date	KV	T-26+Fl.	BA	Guns	Automobiles	Casaulities^*3
June 25-26^*1	2^*2	11+4				128
~3:00 June 27^*4		3+1			7	17
15:00 June 27^*5		3+2	1			41
June 28		11		2^*6	5+2^*7	13+47^*8
June 29-July1	19		1	2^*9	9	190
at night July 2	2^*10					3
July 2-3		26		9^*11	16+3^*7	173
July 4-7	19

* 1- Fights for Dubno

*2 - Both burnt

*3 - Killed & wounded.

*4 - While retreat from Dubno to Rovno

*5 - Rovno area

*6 - regimental (76mm) guns. From the text we also can learn it was losses of the 43rd MRR, which also lost in fights 3 mortars, 5 "Maxim" MGs and ~20% of manpower killed and wounded (figures for all fights before June 29)

*7 -trucks + fuel trucks

*8 - Killed+wounded;

*9 - 122 mm

*10 - hit tanks

*11 - 2 - 152mm + 7 - 122 mm

Equipment of the 43rd Tank Division [10]

Date	Unit	T-34	T-26
June 29	85th TR		25
June 29	86th TR	1	35
July 2	43rd TD	40
July 4	43rd TD	20 operable

On July 7 the 43rd TD had ~300 manpower, 2 regimental guns, 2 152mm howitzers in repair, 2 heavy MGs.

Later division was reinforced by ~600 men from own rears and later by ~400 men from reserve. While follwed heavy fights July 25-Aug. 5 the MRR was loosing ~100-150 men every day receiving small reinforcements

Abbreviations

AA - Antiaircraft

BA - Armored Cars

HQ - Headquarters

Fl. - Flame thrower

How. - Howitzer

MD - Motorised Division

TD - Tank Division

TBn - Tank Battalion

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