8th Guards Poltavskaya Red Banner order of Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Assault Aviation Division

8-я гвардейская штурмовая Полтавская Краснознаменная ордена Богдана Хмельницкого авиационная дивизия

Military Unit: 36653

Activated 8.6.42 as the 266th Fighter Aviation Division.

9.42 renamed 266th Assault Aviation Division.

5.2.44 renamed 8th Guards Assault Aviation Division.

Organisation 5.45 (Neu-Welzow, Germany):

• 140th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment with Il-2
• 142nd Guards Assault Aviation Regiment with Il-2
• 143rd Guards Assault Aviation Regiment with Il-2

Organisation 1950:

• 140th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment with Il-10
• 142nd Guards Assault Aviation Regiment with Il-10
• 649th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment with Il-10

Disbanded 6.55.

Bases:

• Neu-Welzow, Germany, 5.45
• Prag-Ruzyne, Czechoslovakia, 5.45 - 7.45
• Eisenstadt, Austria, 7.45 - 7.46 [47 47 56N, 16 33 41E]
• Borispol, Kiev Oblast, 7.46 - 6.55 [50 20 34N, 30 54 15E]

Subordination:

• 1st Assault Aviation Corps, 9.42 - 2.44
• 1st Guards Assault Aviation Corps, 2.44 - 7.46
• 17th Air Army, 7.46 - 1.49
• 69th Air Army, 1.49 - 6.55