Soviet WW2 supply company and radio platoon

[kampfgruppe]

Hello Guys,

I'm working on soviet TOE's 1943/1945 and according to the new soviet zis trucks i would like to know which TOE's are you using for gaming

My searching is about :

-supply soviet ww2 1943/1945 at the company or platoon including the new fuel zis truck (for example the kind of unit useful for supply and support tank regiment 65 t34-85)

-Radio platoon (with the new zis trucks)


Any help will be appreciate
thank's a lot

Nico

[RedLeif]

Hi,
Ichecked my copies of the Charles Sharp books which give some totals but don’t detail the supply column structures. So I googled “Soviet Fuel Columnâ€￾ to find the following:
“The Soviet Economy and the Red Army, 1930 -1945â€￾ by Walter Scott Dunn, pages 216 to 220. Especially see pages 218 to 220 for some unit specifics.

From which I excerpted and slightly edited the following:

The 19 truck regiments [of 1937 TO&E] were authorized to have 4 to 6 battalions with 169 trucks each. A six battalion regiment would have 1062 vehicles [of all types]. During 1942 and 1943 each army had three to six truck battalions and each front one or two battalions.
1944 Truck brigade, assigned to an army:
3x battalions each with 100 1.5 ton GAZ AA trucks
1944 Truck battalion, assigned 2 per army/3 per tank army:
3 companies each with ZIS 5 (probably 15 to 30) or GAZ AA (probably 45) trucks.

Rifle divisions had a transport company with 45 GAZ AA’s and 15 to 30 ZIS or Studebakers [2.5ton]
The tank corps had a transport company with 100 trucks (appox 93 ton capacity) and a fuel column with 10 fuel tankers (51 ton capacity).
The mechanized corps’ supply assets were larger. Where the transport company had a capacity of 174 tons of goods and 83 tons of fuel.
In December 1944 the 61st army had three truck battalions each with 40 to 60 trucks, mostly Studebakers and ZIS 2.5 ton trucks.
Tank brigades had 30 trucks and 6 or 7 tankers.

Sorry I don't have much more specifics on hand.

Leif

[RedLeif]

Here is a bit more data from the Charles Sharp books:

Vol 8
Rifle division of shtat of 10/12/1942:
125 trucks of all types per division, 15 tractors, 395 H/D wagons, 238 carts.
Rifle Division shtat of 1943:
130 trucks, 15 tractors, 446 wagons, 234 carts
Rifle Division shtat of 1944:
120 trucks, 15 tractors, 395 wagons, 238 carts

Vol 2
Tank Brigade 7/1942:
106 trucks of all types per brigade, The Supply section had a Fuel Platoon and an Ammunition Platoon serving two tank battalions and one Motorized Rifle battalion.

Tank Brigade 10/1943 to 1945:
114 trucks of all types per brigade. The Supply section had a Fuel Platoon and an Ammunition Platoon serving three tank battalions and one Motorized Rifle battalion.

Motorized Rifle Brigade c.1942
authorized to have one truck company with 40 trucks, serving three motorized rifle battalions. The brigade HQ also had a "supply detachment" of unspecified strength.

Motorized Rifle Brigade 10/1943 to 1945:
254 1.5 ton trucks, 79 2.5 ton trucks. The truck company had 109 men (I’d estimate they operated around 100 trucks total with this many personnel)


Tank Corps c. 6/1942:
One Truck Company per Corps (number/type of vehicles is not specified), which had 3 tank brigades and 1 motorized rifle brigade (each with their own Supply sections (see above).

Tank Corps 7/1944 to 1945:
Service Troops include 1 Truck Company and 1 Fuel Supply Column. There were 270 trucks authorized in all the Service Troop organizations (motor vehicle repair battalion, armored vehicle repair battalion, chemical defence company, medical battalion, and field bakery being the other units included in ‘service troops at this time).

best regards
Leif