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reconnaissance aircraft integrated into air fleets, 252 transport aircraft, 674 forward-based aircraft (the
majority of which were range-reconnaissance aircraft). Hereby, if we would count bombers and fighters
of all kinds, we will have 2,474 combat aircraft, that is, aircraft designed to destroy the enemy in air and
on land.
10. M. V. Zefirov, Ground-Attack Aircraft of the Luftwaffe (Moscow: AST, 2001), 37. e maximum speed
of the Hs-123A-1 was 338 km/h.
11. V. R. Kotelnikov, “Flagship of Stalin’s Falcons,” Aviatsia i Vremia, no. 4 (1997). As of June 22, 1941,
the Soviet air force had in its ranks 516 TB-3 (Heavy Bomber-3) plus 25 TB-3 within Soviet Naval
Aviation, for a total of 541 aircraft.
12. V. B. Shavrov, e History of Aircraft Design in the USSR before 1938 (Moscow: Mashino-stroyenie,
1985), 488.
13. If one were to compare the Ju-87B-1 with the SB 1941, with M-105P engines.
14. Luftwaffe’s Wings: Combat Aircraft of the ird Reich (part 4) (Moscow: TsAGI, 1995), 41.
15. Mikhail Maslov, Fighter I-16 (Moscow: Armada, 1997), 33.
16. A. Price, World War II Fighter Conflict (London: Macdonald and Jane’s, 1975), 18–21.
17. Maslov, Fighter I-16, 77.
18. V. Romanov, Messerschmitt Bf.109 (Moscow: Exprint, 1994), 29.
19. Maslov, Fighter I-16, 40.
20. Maslov, Fighter I-16, 33.
21. “ e Early Period of the War,” Voyna I Revolutsia, no. 9 (1929): 19–20.
22. Posev, June 17, 1951.
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Epigraph: Colonel A. I. Rodimtsev, speech at the Eighteenth Congress of the Communist Party, 1939.
1. Voennyi Vestnik [Military Herald], no. 4 (1940): 76–77.
2. Field Rules of the Red Army for 1936 (PU-36), Article 7.
3. VIZh, no. 10 (1982): 75.
4. e Communist Party Archive of the Institute of Party History, Central Committee of the Communist
Party of the Ukraine, Fund 7, Index 1, Case 1330, Sheet 32.
5. Deputy Commander of the Air Force Lieutenant General K. Kurochkin, in VIZh, no. 8 (1980): 94.
6. VIZh, no. 9 (1975): 81.
7. Moscow Military District (Moscow: Moskovski Rabochi, 1985), 177.
8. e Year 1941 (Moscow: International Foundation “Demokratia,” 1998), 2: 104–106. Decree of the
Central Committee of the ACP (b) and the Council of the People’s Commissars “Regarding New Units
of the Red Army,” no. 1112–459cc, April 23, 1941.
9. Soviet Air Assault Troops (Moscow: Voyenizdat, 1986), 51. Here is the structure of the air assault corps at
the end of May 1941: 1st Air Assault Corps: Major General M. A. Usenko, brigades 1, 204, 211 (Kiev
military district); 2nd Air Assault Corps: Major General F. M. Kharitonov, brigades 2, 3, 4 (Kharkov
military district); 3rd Air Assault Corps: Major General V. A. Glazunov, brigades 5, 6, 212 (Odessa);
4th Air Assault Corps: Major General A. S. Zhadov, brigades 7, 8, 214 (Pukhovichi, Byelorussia); 5th
Air Assault Corps: Major General I. S. Bezuglyi, brigades 9, 10, 201 (Daugavpils, Latvia); the 202nd
Air Assault Brigade remained independent. e corps were fully manned by June 1, 1941.

10. A. I. Rodimtzev, Motherland, ese Are Your Sons (Kiev: Politizdat, 1982), 162.
11. I. G. Starchak, From the Sky into the Battle: Memoirs of the Chief of Paratroopers of the Western Front
(Moscow: Voyenizdat, 1965).
12. A. S. Zhadov, Four Years of War (Moscow: Voyenizdat, 1978), 14.
13. Here is the structure of these corps in August 1941: 6th Air Assault Corps: Major General A. I.
Pastrevich, brigades 11, 12, 13 (Moscow district); 7th Corps: Major General I. I. Gubarevich, brigades
14, 15, 16 (Povolzhie); 8th Corps: Major General V. A. Glazkov, brigades 17, 18, 19 (Moscow district);
9th Corps: Major General M. I. Denissenko, brigades 20, 21, 22 (Ivanov district); 10th Corps: Colonel
N. P. Ivanov, brigades 23, 24, 25 (Povolzhie, Gorokhovets camps).
14. Encyclopedia of Aviation (Moscow: Bol’shaja Rossijskaja Encyclopedia, 1994), 421.
15. e author of the idea to deploy tanks at the enemy’s rear by using gliders’ wings was the great American