WW2: ORGANIZATION OF ARMIES

Air Corps, Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, Pursuit Group, Multi-Engine

1 August 1939

Table of Organization 1-12

 

1. Group Headquarters

1.1. Command Section

1.2 Personnel Section

1.3 Operations and Intelligence Section

1.4 Materiel Section

1.5 Communications Section

1.6 Weather Section

2. Headquarters Squadron

2.1 Administrative

2.1.1 Squadron Headquarters

2.1.2. Mess

2.1.3 Transportation

2.2 Technical

2.2.1. Engineering

2.2.2 Supply

2.2.3 Communication

2.2.4 Armament and Chemical

2.3 Flight

2.3.1 Operations

2.3.2 Flight A

 

Total Squadron: 23 Officers, 234 Enlisted, 257 Pistols, 20x Aircraft machine gun fixed cal. .50, 10x Aircraft machine gun flexible cal. .30, 5 Motorcycles with sidecar, 5 Light cars sedan, 11 Trucks 0,5-ton, 10 Trucks 1,5-ton cargo 4x2, 13 Trucks 2,5-ton cargo 4x2, 1 Portable field lighting equipment, 5 Pursuit airplanes 2-engine, 8 Trailers 0,75-ton, 2 Radios SCR-197A

 

3. Attached Medical (Table of organization 8-400 dated April 27, 1938)

 

Total Squadron (with Medical): 25 Officers, 246 Enlisted, 257 Pistols, 20x Aircraft machine gun fixed cal. .50, 10x Aircraft machine gun flexible cal. .30, 5 Motorcycles with sidecar, 5 Light cars sedan, 11 Trucks 0,5-ton, 10 Trucks 1,5-ton cargo 4x2, 13 Trucks 2,5-ton cargo 4x2, 1 Portable field lighting equipment, 1 Field ambulance, 5 Pursuit airplanes single engine, 8 Trailers 0,75-ton, 2 Radios SCR-197A, 1 Crash splint unit, 1 Group aid station equipment

 

Note:

1. 23 Officers = 1 Colonel + 1 Lieutenant Colonel + 3 Majors + 6 Captains 9 1^st Lieutenants + 3 2^nd Lieutenants;
2. 25 Officers (with Medical) = 1 Colonel + 1 Lieutenant Colonel + 4 Majors + 7 Captains 9 1^st Lieutenants + 3 2^nd Lieutenants;
3. 234 Enlisted = 5 Master Sergeants + 1 First Sergeant + 9 Technical Sergeants + 9 Staff Sergeants + 31 Sergeants + 33 Corporals + 99 Privates First Class + 47 Privates;
4. 246 Enlisted (with Medical) = 5 Master Sergeants + 1 First Sergeant + 9 Technical Sergeants + 10 Staff Sergeants + 32 Sergeants + 33 Corporals + 102 Privates First Class + 54 Privates;
5. 11 Truck 0,5-ton  = 7 Reconnaissance 8-passenger + 4 Pick-up;

 

P.S. All pictures are executed in a scale 1:100, signal equipments - 1:20

 

 

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