Soviet Cavalry Division TOEs

[Wiedrock]

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Cavalry Corps was started here already, not sure yet how to best separate Div/Corps.


Sources:
CttRA
German Intel BArch RH 2/....
NH
https://477768.livejournal.com/7042816.html
tbc

Content:
06/1941
08/1941 +Guards 09/1941
12/1941 +Corps (should be 01/1942)
07/1942 +Guards+Corps (previous TOE with Amendments)
02/1943 +Guards+Corps (last major change to the Regiment)
Optional 07/1943 (added +2 Recons (total 28Men) per Rgt + 12Men = +120Men) can also be used to Upgrade stuff.
02/1944 ONLY Corps currently
reserve - late 1944 Artillery changes (not sure if ever applied in European Theatre)
reserve/final/further info



IF ANYONE KNOWS WHERE THE "FLAMTHROWERS" CURRENTLY IN GAME ARE COMMING FROM WOULD HELP A LOT!
I do not know what they are sopposed to represent.
Sappers?
Chemical Units?
Corps assets?
Other "unknown" flame/AT means?
other...?
Flamer info:
Flamers that early in the war were often/mostly subordinate to the "Chemical" units, but in case of the Cavalry I do not see the flamers listed...

GKO 115, 12.07.1941, Regulating Flamethrower Production/Testing
GKO 285, 26.07.1941, Regulating Flamethrower Production
GKO 1005, 09.12.1941, Forming new Flamethrower Formations

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06/1941

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08/1941 +Guards 09/1941

The initial idea was as it seems to simply use the old TOE and just scrap some TOE-numbers/parts of it.

TOEs
07/3 HQ-Staff (115Men)
07/4 Cavalry Regiment (940Men)
07/5 Tank squadron (34Men)
06/104 Ind. Riding Artillery Battalion (633Men [8+8])
06/105 Ind. Artillery-Park (143Men)

The State Defense Committee

Ordinance
of July 19, 1941 No GKO-207s

FORMATION OF NEW DIVISIONS

[...]

4. Approve the following weapons for each CD:
Rifles - 2628
PPD - 200
Hand machine guns - 50
Machine guns - 36
45-mm PTO guns-12
76 mm regimental guns-12

The State Committee of Defense

Resolution
dated August 9, 1941 No. GKO-446SS

About the States of the Rifle and Cavalry Division

[...]

2. In the cavalry division:

a) Enter the state of KAV. Divisions in each saber platoon 1 - 50 mm mortar, having them in the composition of CAVs. regiment 16 and in the cavalry division of 48 - 50 mm mortars.

As part of each KAV. The regiment has a battery containing 6 82 mm mortars, and in total in the Cavalry Division have 18 - 82 mm mortars;

b) 50 mm mortars KAV. Divisions have on packs, and 82 mm mortars in carts.

• AT Guns (6→12)
  Here the tale of the missing AT-Guns begins and continues on. All infos show 12 AT-Guns being authorized but somehow the current TOEs only have 6.
• PTRD (0)
  PTRDs are to only add to TOEs from 12/1941 onwards. (until someone knows actual orders adding them/amending TOEs)
• 82mm Mortar
  An Amendment added 18x on 9th August 1941 (see quote).
  Either apply this to both (Regular+Guards) or only to the Guards TOE from 09/1941.
• Tanks
  Supposedly never rly implemented at this point, so can be left out.
• Flamethrowers
  I do not know what they are sopposed to represent.
  Sappers?
  Chemical Defence?
  Corps assets?
  Other "unknown" flame/AT means?
  other...? (need hints/help/info on that)

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12/1941 +Corps (should be 01/1942)

TOEs (manpower numbers may be "wrong" due to slight amendments)

06/105 Ind. Artillery-Park (143Men)
06/212 Pioneer Squadron (70Men)
06/214 Artillery (was reduced to 4+8 is 496Men)
06/214 AA (80Men)
06/215 Flak Battery ??? (80Men)
06/216??? Chemical Defence Squadron (64Men) ???
.............OR......07/6 Chemical Defence Squadron (64Men) ...from ~19.08.1941
06/217 Recon Battalion (353Men) ...or 06/257?
.....................06/257 or 217? Recon Battalion (353Men)
06/220 Medic Squadron (50Men)
06/222 Prosecutor's Office (~4Men)
06/230 HQ-Staff (96Men)
06/231 Communications Halve-Squadron (53Men)
06/233 Cavalry Regiment
06/238 Supply Column (48Men)
06/241 Divisional Veterinarian

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07/1942 +Guards+Corps (previous TOE with Amendments)

See BArch RH 2/2520 p.151ff
From 20.11.1942 (+some other strentgh reports):
06/230 HQ-Staff (96Men→now 80Men sometimes?)
06/231 Communications Halve-Squadron (53Men)
06/216 Chemical Defense Squadron (64Men) - 15.5.42 Shtat No. 07/6 changed to 06/216 (both 64Men)
...or...07/6 Chemical Defence Squadron (64Men)
...or...17/6 (numbers vary due to probably bad readability/typos)
06/233 Cavalry Regiment (now 1160-1176Men)
06/214 Artillery (was reduced to 4+8 is 496Men)
06/105 Ind. Artillery-Park (143Men)
06/217 Recon Battalion (353Men) - only added ~09/1942 or so
06/215 AA Battery (80Men)
06/220 Medic Squadron (50Men)
06/241 Divisional Veterinarian (25Men)
06/222 Prosecutor's Office (4Men)
06/212 Pioneer Squadron (70Men)
06/238 Supply Column (48Men)
+ 10Men Repair Workshop for shoemaker/tailor

• AT Guns
  It continues the AT Gun 6 vs 12 guns.
• AA
  37mm Flak most sources highlight +6 but I have also seen some weird Intel reports giving other numbers (e.g. also including AAMGs, only 4x37mm and so on)).
• Recons
  One Squad needs to be removed (I think) from the Recon Battalion (I do not have the actual TOE/SubTOE of this formation).
  Some reports indicate the addition of Regimental Recons.
• PTRD
  The PTRD is either correct or needs to be 76 (again, I can't explain why the Recon battalion would only have 4 instead of 6 PTRDs).
• Flamethrowers
  I still have no clue where alle the Flamethrowers are comming from or what they are based on (Help needed)....
  Sappers?
  Chemical Defence?
  Corps assets?
  Ampoulets?
  other...?
• Sappers see pic
  All should have gotten this, but only Guards got it (CttRA), later that year it was again tried to get such an Sqadron into each Division but it seems to have failed again. So it stays a "Guards only".

GUARDS
Occasionally a 4th Regiment is referenced and exists.
I also have seen additional 120mm. It is possible that some "Corps Artillery" was actually/officially authorized to the Guards TOEs.
This Source states "(guard cavalry division - 6703 people and 6908 horses)". I unfortunately can not access his Source in the presidential library, so not sure what the Source says.

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02/1943 +Guards+Corps (last major change to the Regiment)

https://477768.livejournal.com/7042816.html

TOEs 06/310-324
06/310
06/313 Kavalry Regiment (with 3xDShK in HQ or without?! - without 1133Men)
06/314 Artillery-Mortar Regiment [8x76.mm Artillery + 18x120mm Mortar + 10xDShK]
06/315 AA Battalion [6x37mm + 27xDShK]


06/317 Tank Regiment of Kavalry Divisions from 08.02.1943 [23 T-34, 16 T-70, 3 BA-64 + XXX???] (352Men)
OR
10/292 Ind. Tank Regiment [23xT-34 + 16xT-70 + 3xArmored Car(Recon Platoon?) + Sapper Platoon] (339Men)
becomes in 03-04/1944:
10/507 Ind. Tank Regiment [21xT-34 + 3xArmored Car + 6xPTRD + "Company of machine gunners - 73 people (SMG)"] (383Men)

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CORPS' SU Regiments: (ignore, just to have it noted down for the Corps later on)
02/1943 08/198(???) [21xSU-76] (XXXMen) ??? typo?! There exists 158 and 191 ...
07/1943 010/456 [21xSU-76] (253Men)
02/1944 010/484 [21xSU-76] (225Men)

[Wiedrock]

Optional 07/1943 (added +2 Recons (total 28Men) per Rgt + 12Men = +120Men) can also be used to Upgrade stuff.


CORPS:

The State Committee of Defense
Resolution No. Goko-3251ss of April 25, 1943
Moscow Kremlin.

On the understaffing of the guard cavalry corps and strengthening their combat power

In order to complete the guards cavalry corps to the regular number and strengthen their combat power
The State Defense Committee decides:

[...]

4. Enter the staff of each cavalry corps:
a) a separate tank brigade;
b) the artillery regiment of self -propelled artillery;
c) a separate anti -aircraft regiment of the MZA, instead of the cavalry corps available in the state, a separate air defense squadron;
d) a separate guards mortar regiment, numbering 336 people, artistances M-8-12;
e) a separate motor transport battalion, numbering 301 people, 158 vehicles.

5. To oblige Comrade Fedorenko to allocate tank brigades for cavalry corps and for cavalry divisions laid down by state No. 06/317, tank regiments.

6. To oblige T. Voronov to form self-propelled artillery regiments and individual anti-aircraft regiments of the MZA for the cavalry corps, and the head of the chapter, Colonel General Comrade Shchadenko, highlight the necessary personnel for this formation.

7. To oblige Comrade Aborenkov to allocate separate guards mortar regiments for the cavalry corps.

8. To oblige Comrade Belokoskov to allocate individual vehicles for cavalry corps.

9. The measures for the disbandment and transfer of parts of the cavalry are completed by May 15, 1943.

10. Transmission of amplification parts for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 Guards Cavalry Corps and 24 Separate Cavalry Division to be made by June 1, 1943.

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02/1944 ONLY Corps currently

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reserve - late 1944 Artillery changes (not sure if ever applied in European Theatre)

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IF ANYONE KNOWS WHERE THE "FLAMTHROWERS" CURRENTLY IN GAME ARE COMMING FROM WOULD HELP A LOT!

[Denniss]

Per RH/2 2520 image 111 the Recon Bn of the 2nd CavDiv was replaced by a Recon squadron in early 4/43. Bn was 353 men per 06/217. Squadron size could not be properly determined but cloth and equipment requests were for 112 people (current strenght of the squadron).

[Denniss]

Regarding mix of Labor (Sapper) and Flamethrower squads - I believe the Cav Divs were the only soviet units retaining a small offensive-capable Engineer content throughout the war.
All other unit types had those removed/withdrawn to rebuild the branch after suffering catastrophic losses in summer 41. In early 43 we have them back as assault sapper squads in their specific units as Army (Support) troops.

[Denniss]

Had some time to work on the Cav divs. thats what I have for now

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2225	41 GCav Div		6->12x 45mm ATG, 78->72x AT-Rifle, 6->12x Sapper Sq, 118->113 Support, 18x 82mm Mortar added
2226	42 GCav Div		7.62mm USV->ZIS, 105->104x Cav Sq, 18->12x Sapper Sq, 9->3x FT Sq, 78->76x AT-Rifle, 6->12x 45mm ATG, 9->6x 37mm Flak, 124->134 Support
2227	43 GCav Div		96->82x Cav Sq, 18->24x Cav Sq 43, 15->12x Sapper Sq, 6->3x FT Sq, 7->16x T-70, 29->23x T-34, 12->18x 120mm Mortar, 12->8x 7.62mm FG
						112->72x ATR, 36->37x DShK, T-34 M42->M43, 185->140 Support
2229	41a Cav Div		15->18x Quad AAMG, 28->18x DShK, 26->24x Sapper Sq, 4->6x FT Sq, 64->85x MG, 311->294 Support
2230	41b Cav Div		6->12x 45mm ATG, 6->12x Sapper Sq, 118->108 Support
2231	41c Cav Div		6->12x 45mm ATG, 78->72x AT-Rifle, 6->8x Sapper Sq, 3->2x FT Sq, 118->113 Support, 18x 82mm Mortar added
2232	42 CavDiv		105->104x Cav Sq, 9->8x Sapper Sq, 9->2x FT Sq, 78->76x AT-Rifle, 6->12x 45mm ATG, 9->6x 37mm Flak, 124->133 Support
2233	43 CavDiv		96->82x Cav Sq, 18->24x Cav Sq 43, 15->12x Sapper Sq, 6->3x FT Sq, 7->16x T-70, 29->23x T-34, 12->18x 120mm Mortar, 12->8x 7.62mm FG
						112->72x ATR, 36->37x DShK, 45mm M42 ATG->M37, 185->140 Support

[Denniss]

Post above has been updated, added the ~120 men of mid 43 to both 43 CavDivs as 10 additional standard Cav Squads

[Denniss]

may be of interest:
https://pamyat-naroda.ru/documents/view/?id=110355105
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic ... 4#p1066544 (with some follow-ups, claims SU-85 was used)