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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 10 Feb 2017, 09:55

To interpret the "Summary of the Rear" tables given as links in my previous post, I have collected the data from all the sheets for the period of the operation 12th Jan to 2nd Feb into a spreadsheet and from this displayed the information in graphs. I have chosen some key indicators to illustrate the information, Gasoline (as the Army's main type of vehicle was trucks) Bread Flour (for the soldiers rations) Oats (for the horses) and then used the 37th Guards Rifle Division situation reports as an indicator of the supply situation at the front line.
Gasoline
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Bread
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37 GRD supply situation
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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 10 Feb 2017, 10:07

In order to understand these graphs it helps to have a timeline for 8th Guards Army:
12th Jan - Offensive launched from southern bridgeheads
14th Jan - 8GA launches its offensive from the Magnuszew bridgehead
16th Jan - 8GA has broken through the 9 Armee defences and scattered the German units, the 1st and 2nd Guards Tank Armies begin their exploitation.
19th Jan - 8GA reaches Lodz 125 km away from the bridgehead covering 35 km a day
23rd Jan - railway bridge over Vistula at Magnuszew completed and starts operation the following day
24th Jan - 8GA reaches Posen 325 km away from the bridgehead. I Rifle Corps invests the fortress with units from neighbouring armies while the rest of 8 GA bypasses the town to the north and continues in the wake of the Tank Armies to the Oder another 160 km away. Posen holds out for 30 days and is finally taken by storm.
28th Jan - 8GA on Oder and starts fight for bridgehead
2nd Feb - bridgehead over the Oder has held and operation comes to an end.


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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 10 Feb 2017, 11:19

It is clear from the graphs that neither flour nor oats were an issue during the operation. Both fall at a steady rate from the 14th to the 18th which is the army fighting and advancing using up its own reserves. From the 18th the situation stabilises and stocks with the units are pretty constant which means that they are either getting supplies delivered or they are drawing supplies from the local area. Given the distances and what we know of the available transport, it is clear that the 8th Guards Army were finding plenty of food along their path and the 39th Guards Rifle Division kept small stocks but was able to operate for over two weeks living off the land.

The situation with regards to Gasoline is quite different (as we know from the Guards Tank Army posts that they could not use captured stocks immediately until after they had been tested) and we see a steady rate of consumption right through to the 24th Jan when the 8GA was reaching Posen. At that point the rate reduces, for one thing, 1 Rifle Corps was now stationary outside the city, so demand had fallen but the other event must have been the opening of the railway bridge on the 23rd and the arrival of fuel trains as far as Posen. The city blocked further exploitation of the railway network until a lengthy alternative route was discovered around Thorn but the 150 km from Posen to the Oder was a possible journey by truck convoys.

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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 10 Feb 2017, 18:54

The Artillery Supply Reports before the offensive starts are quite interesting and list a whole lot of units (inc heavy guns) that do not appear in the later reports. Of note is the listing of a SU-85 Regiment with the 8GA
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If someone would be kind enough to help me translate the columns headings and other items as before.......

https://pamyat-naroda.ru/documents/view/?id=133371706

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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 11 Feb 2017, 09:33

If we assume that the above is correct and that the 8GA was drawing a lot of its supplies from the local area, what was the daily demand of the army?
The only item that we can use from the Pamyat Naroda figures is Gasoline for the period 14th to 20th Jan as we can assume that in the earlier stages of the advance, they used up their own stocks and did not receive any supplies from army depots.

For Gasoline, stocks fell from 3.3 to 1.5 over 7 days (14th to 20th) or 0.3 refills per day. This is in line with other recorded expenditure. This is 686 tonnes over 7 days or 98.1 tonnes a day. A Refill was 327 tonnes so a fall of 0.3 a day is 98 tonnes a day.

This also fits with Walter Scott Dunn's figures in "The Soviet Economy and the Red Army" in Oct 1943:

Rifle Division Daily Supply Requirement
Munitions: 76 tonnes
Rations: 20 tonnes
Fodder: 15 tonnes
Fuel: 7 tonnes
Total: 118 tons

Guards Rifle Division Supplies carried by units
Munitions: 351 tonnes
Rations: 21 tonnes
Fodder: 17 tonnes
Fuel: 15 tonnes
Total: 404 tons

The average for all fuels for the first seven days of the offensive is 145.7 tonnes a day (98.1 tonnes of which is gasoline) divided between 9 Guards Rifle Divisions and the Army artillery, aircraft and ancillary units. This is 16 tonnes per day per Rifle Division (including its proportion of support troops) and was an average of 0.3 refills. This makes a Division refill equal 53 tonnes.

So if we use Dunn's figure of 7 tonnes a day consumption (with 9 tonnes per division for artillery, aircraft and support units total 16 tonnes per division) and this equals 0.3 refills then it follows that 1 refill weighs 23 tonnes.
As each division started the operation with 3.8 refills as stocks each Division must have carried 87 tonnes of fuel.
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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 11 Feb 2017, 19:05

Over the first seven days of the offensive, 14th Jan to 20th Jan, I am fairly confident that that Army did not receive any fuel supplies, certainly by the 25th they had received Diesel fuel (daily total is higher than the day before) and possibly Gasoline.

Fuel Stocks by Fuel Type in tonnes
8 GA Fuel Stocks tonnes.jpg
Fuel Stocks by Fuel Type in refills
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Fuel Stocks by Rifle Division in refills
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The different rates of consumption between units is shown quite well here, the 79 GRD and 39 GRD have quite a reasonable amount at the end while the 35 GRD and 45 GRD have used up most of their supplies.

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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 15 Feb 2017, 13:22

Der Alte Fritz wrote:I have been trying to work out the breakdown of the vehicles as listed above based on the Front's order of battle:
Front transport ............................................. 3,220
Army transport ............................................. 3,930

63 Rifle Divisions (each 122 vehicles) ................... 8000 (to allow for GRD)
6 Cavalry Divisions (each Corps 1400 vehicles) ........ 2800
5 Tank Corps (each 511) ................................... 2555
2 Mech Corps (each 1530) ................................. 3060
4 Tank Bde (each 166) ...................................... 664
11 Tank Regiments ......................................... 1254
total........................................................ 15,739

unaccounted for ......................................... 37,400
Overall total .............................................. 62,750
The Artillery report for the 11th January gives the listing of vehicles in the artillery units.

For the Rifle Divisions this shows a typical number as around 50 out of a total establishment of 5 cars, 132 trucks and 15 tractors (shtat 04/500 GRD) but this total does not include the Transport Company, Chemical Company or Medical Battalion which accounts for 80 vehicles. So roughly 50 vehicles for the Artillery Regt, AT Bn and Mortar Battery is about right given that units were rarely up to strength.

For the 8th Guards Army Artillery and AT units we have 806 vehicles (82 tractors and 724 motors). But only 8GA and 69 Army had this level of support, most had only around 5 artillery units

For the attached artillery units from the Front (14th and 29th Artillery Divisions) we have 936 and 1274 vehicles resp. and these two divisions were part of 6 Artillery Divisions of the Front.

These figures allow us to make an educated guess as to the breakdown of vehicles from the unaccounted total of 37,400:

6 Artillery Divisions at 1,000 vehicles each
10 Light artillery bde 150
4 Separate artillery regt 50
2 Cannon artillery regt 60
9 AT bde 120
7 Separate tank destroyer regt 40
1 Separate mortar bde 195
8 Separate mortar regt 65
1 Gd mortar division 150
11 Gd mortar regt 90
8 AA Divisions 180
20 AA regt 45
7 Separate AA regt 45

which gives us a total of Front and Army artillery of around 14,000 vehicles (leaving 23,000 unaccounted for)

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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 16 Feb 2017, 16:46

Artillery Reports:
Nearest date to the offensive date of 14th Jan is one dated 11th Jan and the next one is 18th Jan (D+4). One represents the full 8 Guard Army plus its supporting heavy artillery and the other the 8 Guard Army on the move less the heavy artillery (though elements of the 6th Artillery Division are still operating with the 8GA). This allows us to calculate the tonnage available to the 8 GA on those two dates:
8 GA Ammunition tonnage 11th to 18th.jpg
from this it would appear that the 8 GA had 10,000 tonnes plus by the time of the launch of the offensive but was carrying 3,500 tonnes 4 days into the operation. I am pleased to say that this matches the information from the study made of the artillery bombardment here: http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/s ... 327&page=5

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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 17 Feb 2017, 19:50

A more detailed look at the various classes of rations carried by the units is given for the period 11th Jan (D-3) to 25th Jan (D+11) just when the 8 Guards Army was investing Posen and marching around it. A careful look at the figures shows that the Army was using roughly 650 tonnes a day until the 18th (D+4) when it reaches Lodz when it then uses 250 tonnes a day until the 21st (D+7) when its usage flattens out. This is before the railway was open so it appears that once the breakthrough battle was completed, the Army was able to find sufficient stocks to become virtually self sufficient.
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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 18 Feb 2017, 14:55

A slightly clearer view can be had by looking at the categories alone:

Total Rations carried by 8th Guards Army and daily rate of consumption
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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 21 Feb 2017, 15:24

My final attempt to reconcile the stated figures against what we might expect the vehicle inventory to be using establishment figures and actual reported figures. It occurred to me that the more useful figure might be the 20,000 lorries in the combat units. This would leave 35,000 trucks/cars and special vehicles. The lorry figure works out a lot closer to the establishment figure at 24,000 (which allowing for 70% of establishment) is about correct. This means that the unaccounted for vehicles (around 20,000) are all light vehicles which might be used for towing AT guns or general duties in the rear but are not cargo carriers.
1 Belorussian Front Vehicles.jpg
This table illustrates the establishment vehicle complement of Guards Rifle Division 04/550
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From this we can make an estimate of the 8 GA transport capacity (deducting vehicles used for carrying equipment, baggage) for cargo:
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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 22 Feb 2017, 11:03

The total stocks of all categories of supplies for the dates where we have both artillery reports and supply reports looks like this:
8 GA Total Stocks 11th to 24th.jpg
At the time of the offensive, the total stocks exceed the cargo tonnage available to the Army but once the heavy artillery is left behind and the Army starts to move, its 13,000 tonnes lift could carry an entire set of munitions, rations and fuel sufficient to last it for around 10 days at a consumption rate of 1,200 tonnes a day. At a planned rate of advance of 15 km a day, this would allow the Army to advance, solely on the its carried stocks for a distance of 150 km or to its main objective of Lodz. Further exploitation or operations would depend on further supplies reaching the Army but with just 700 tonnes of cargo capacity this was limited. The normal daily distance of motor columns given traffic conditions (see topic http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 6&t=226780) was 150 km so past 75 km (a days march out and returning) an Army would only receive 350 tonnes a day which would add a further 3,150 tonnes or 2.5 days supplies over the 10 days. The railway had to open or the Army had to capture significant stocks by Day 13 (27th Jan) of the operation or else the Front transport assets would have to be diverted to assist the armies.

This had been the situation during the Lvov-Sandomir Operation the previous summer when armies had used locally requisitioned horse transport but even this had failed when the armies had advanced beyond 180 km and Front transport assets had been sent to help.

However the collapse of the 9 Armee and the speed of the pursuit reached 35 km a day which threw all these calculations out of the window, both increasing consumption and shortening the time which the motor transport units could sustain a credible level of daily deliveries.

As we have seen in the previous tables, the advance beyond Lodz was supported from captured food stocks and little fighting which conserved munitions so that the available transport could focus on delivering fuel and the opening of the railways on Day 9 (23rd Jan) meant that the 8th Guards Army could move onto Posen and then part of it onwards to the Oder.

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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 22 Feb 2017, 17:39

In order to gain some idea of the structure of the Rear units of an Army here is a listing of the 8th Army Volkov Front Feb 1944 Army Rear Units from Russian Archive No.25

Органы ВОСО Agencies of VOSO
1 ЗКРС № 38 Commander of Front Railway Regulatory Station. No.38
Дорожные части Road Units
2 ОДЭБ № 130 130th Separate Road Operating Battalion
3 ОДЭБ № 105 105th Separate Road Operating Battalion
4 ОДЭБ № 137 137th Separate Road Operating Battalion
5 ОДЭБ № 477 477th Separate Road Operating Battalion
6 ОДЭБ № 4 4th Separate Road Operating Battalion
7 ОДЭБ № 5 5th Separate Road Operating Battalion
8 ОДЭБ № 41 41st Separate Road Operating Battalion
Авточасти Motor Units
9 414 оатб 414th Separate Motor Transport Battalion
10 1/414 оатб 1st Company / 414th Separate Motor Transport Battalion
11 5 бат-н 52 автополка 5th Battalion 52nd Motor Regiment
12 Управление Department
13 Пол. арм. продскл. 2472 2472nd Field Army Food depot
14 Отд. прод. склада Separate Food Warehouse
15 Пол. арм, обозно-вещев. Склад № 1215. Field Army Intendants Depot 1215
16 Пол. арм. авто-скл. 2128 Field Army Motor Depot 2128
17 Пол. арм. вет. склад № 1694 Field Army Veterinary Depot 1694
18 Пол. аом. аот. скл.1414 Field Army Artillery Depot 1414
19 Отделение артсклада Separate Army Depot
20 Пол. арм. троф. скл. 2360 Field Army Trophy Depot 2360
21 Пол. арм. скл. ГСМ 1178 Field Army Deport for POL 1178
22 Отделение склада Separate Depot
23 Пол. арм. скл. ВТС 1827 Field Army Depot Technical Department 1827
24 Пол. арм. сан. склад № 2150 Field Army Sanitary Depot 2150
25 15-я отд. рота обслуж. армбазы № 2 15th Separate Company servicing Army Base No.2
Санитарные учреждения Sanitary Units
26 УПЭП № 102 Department of Field Evacuation Points 102
27 СЭГ № 544 Clearing and evacuation hospital 544
28 ЭГ № 1789 Evacuation Hospital 1789
29 ЭГ № 2030 Evacuation Hospital 2030
30 ЭГ № 1928 Evacuation Hospital 1928
31 ЭГ № 13 Evacuation Hospital 13
32 АГЛР № 2080 Army Field Hospital 2080
33 АГЛР № 3103 Army Field Hospital 3103
34 УГПЭП № 72 Department of Field Evacuation Points 72
35 ППГ № 731 Mobile Field Hospital 731
36 ППГ № 627 Mobile Field Hospital 627
37 ППГ № 740 Mobile Field Hospital 740
38 ИГ № 821 Hospital for Communicable Diseases 821
39 УГПЭП № 138 HQ of Forward Evacuation Point 138
40 ППГ № 519 Mobile Field Hospital 519
41 ППГ № 744 Mobile Field Hospital 744
42 ППГ № 364 Mobile Field Hospital 364
43 ППГ № 2693 Mobile Field Hospital 2693
44 ИГ № 4285 Hospital for Communicable Diseases 4285
45 ПАЛ № 136 Pathological Lab 136
46 ОРМУ № 36 Separate Medical Reinforcement Company 36
47 СЭО № 56 Medical Epidemiological Detachment
48 ОДР № 8 Separate Bath and Fumigation Company 8
49 АСР № 60 Army Medical Company 60
50 КСР № 69 Corps Medical Company 69
51 КСР № 70 Corps Medical Company 70
52 Бан. отряд № 37 Disinfection Detachment 37
53 Бан. отряд № 38 Disinfection Detachment 38
54 Бан. отряд № 39 Disinfection Detachment 39
55 ППО № 224 Regimental Medical Aid Detachment 224
Ветучреждения Veterinary
56 ЭВЛ № 621 Veterinary Evacuation Hospital 621
57 АВЛ № 443 Army Veterinary Hospital 443
58 АВЛ № 942 Army Veterinary Hospital 942
59 ЭП № 584 ЭВЛ Clearing Station 584 Veterinary Evacuation Hospital
Ремонтные средства Repair Facilities
60 ПОРСАМ № 397 Mobile Workshop for Repair of Saddlery and Harness 397
61 ПОРЕМ № 190 Mobile Repair Workshop 190
62 ПОРАМ № 91 Mobile Artillery Repair Workshop 91
63 АРАМ № 8 Army Artillery repair Workshop 8
64 АРАМ № 347 Army Artillery repair Workshop 347
65 ТАРМ № 11 Tractor Repair Workshop 11
66 СПАМ № 83 SPAM Vehicle Salvage Point 83
67 "Арм. мает, стредств связи (по ремонту)" Army Signals Workshop (for repair)
68 ПРБ № 120 Mobile Repair Base 120
Разные арм. тылы Various Army Rear Units
69 ПАХ № 126 Field Bakery 126
70 Отд. ПАХ № 126 Separate Field Bakery 126
71 "Арм. перес. пункт № 8 для бывших в/пленных" Army Transit Station No.8 for former military prisoners
72 ПАХ № 95 Field Bakery 95

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number 344

SUMMARY-REPORT ON THE PREPARATION OF SERVICE FOOD SUPPLY 1 st Belorussian Front to offensive OPERATIONS FROM Vistula River to the west and ON Food & Fodder DURING OPERATION

Number 0416 February 6, 1945

1. In the preparatory period for the offensive of the 1st Belorussian front from the Vistula River to the West. Front subdivision developed
plan for supplying attacking troops with food and fodder.

The plan calls for the supply of food in two stages.

Stage 1 - 1 to 12 day of the offensive of the army and military units have been
provided with food and fodder by reserves accumulated by
the beginning of operations at the head offices of the warehouses, the КОП and the ДОП and the bridgehead.
By this time (front had stocks:

By Bread .....................on 30 days
In meat products and fats .....on 23 days
Sugar .......................................on 66
Cereal .....................................on 28
Salts ..............................................on 31
Tobacco products ....................on 21
Grain forage, etc. ......................on 49
Product .....................................on 30-40
Of this amount, the armies had concentrated food to 20 days.
Created stocks in warehouses and in the armed forces fully respect offensive operation.

In order to reduce the transport of food and fodder shoulder troops adopted a decision on the 12 day of the offensive at the turn of Kutno - Lodz deploy frontline food stores:

Kutno - Food Depot 2089, with Bakeries (ПАХ) - No.409 and 509 with a stock food & fodder for 125,000 people and 15,000 horses for 5 days.

Lodz - Food Depot number 820,with Bakeries - No.15 with a stock food & fodder 125,000 people and 15,000 horses.

Deliveries food & fodder from frontline stocks mentioned above envisaged from Siedlce - warehouse number No.2564 and
Lublin - warehouse number No.2134.

By the end of the second phase of the operation on the 20th day of the offensive was envisaged to deploy the front Food depots at Gniezno - Jarocin.

Gniezno - the separation of the front warehouse No.2089, with Bakery - No.409 and 509 with a reserve for 125,000 people and 15,000 horses.

Jarocin - separation of the front warehouse N0. 820, with Bakery No.15 with stock food & fodder for 125,000 people and 15,000 horses.

In accordance with the plan of troop food & fodder department, the preparatory period for offensive operations called in front Prodotdel chiefs branches Army, heads of front-line grocery stores and grain, which posed a particular challenge for the relocation and provision of troops during the offensive.
Structured settlements before the onset of supply of troops gave the right approach to the use of existing in the front resources, distribute them, and to outline some promising plan for the transportation of the troops.
January 14, 1945 the troops concentrated on the west coast of bridgeheads River Vistula and took the offensive. Elan and quick advance of troops
forward, solved the problem in a different supply than is provided for in the plans.

The enemy was not able to not only take existing stocks, but did not destroy them. Therefore, if the training period provided security at the
expense of the accumulated reserves prodfurazha (food & fodder) on the frontline, army depots in the army, in fact, already in the first days of the offensive troops fully ensured their need by taken trophies and refused delivery of food, and in products such as potatoes, sugar, alcohol, meat,
take the trophy on the need to provide a lot of months and quite the need to supply their front for centralized delivery.

69 Army only in Tract Belobzheze was taken captured food in quantity: 800 tons of flour, 860 tons of concentrates, crackers 5 cars, 4000 tons of grain, potatoes 1500 tons, suhoovoschey 7 cars, chocolate 3 wagon kormasla 1.5 wagon, coffee wagon 1 and etc.

Large quantities of food 69 army were taken in Radom, Lodz and other areas.

Cattle army taken up to 3000 heads.

8 Guards. Army taken 1,600 tons of flour, oats, barley and fodder 2,000 tons,
myasokonservov tubes 980, 130 tonnes of meat, and others.

47 army taken up to 2000 head, and 61 army more than 6,000 heads of cattle.

To check on the spot the nutritional status of the upcoming pieces and Organization of accounting and rational use of captured food in
all army engineers seconded on nutrition and baking and Inspector Quartermaster front control.

Because coming from armies and members of management Quartermaster front reports shows that the soldiers and officers of the attacking units do not quite is¬
experience t power outages. Food is cooked tasty and in sufficient quantity.

By the beginning of the offensive front has accumulated a stock of biscuits 7 sutodach and provided
the coming of the breadcrumbs for 5 days. As of February 5 residue
crackers Edge 5.5 sutodach therefore 20 days advance spent
only 1.5 c / d crackers. This is the result of the field bakery did not lag behind
by the troops, and normally provide baked bread.

Regardless of the fact that the coming of the full respect for their
needs at the expense of trophy prodfurazha and did not require the transportation of, frontline
stocks quickly moved up behind the advancing smoothly and parts
provided in / of the front part of the reserve, and other parts of the hospital.

Already on day 7 offensive front warehouse number 2089 was transferred from
Siedlce and deployed at the station. Kutno, then Gnezin, which has also been deployed to
the front HUD-509. Frontline warehouse number 820 redeployed to Art. Kovel and on
day 8 was deployed in Lodz.

Food for these stocks driving up trucks, as in the early days of the railroad was not restored.
In addition, stocks mastered available at the place of dislocation captured food and paying allowances to frontline units.
Front-line stores with their work have shown that they are well prepared for work in the conditions of offensive action.
Thrown forward, behind the advancing troops in Kutno warehouse number 2089 quickly turned their work to identify and collect the trophy prodfurazha and concentrated in storage of up to 600 tons of different food. Not limited prodfurazha collection, storage at the same time identify and accepted by his guards captured national economic assets: sewing machines 420 units, 5 tons of candles, rubber boots 800 items, shoe ointment 20 thousand cans.. Paper 5.9 t, wool 0 4 tons of different leathers 1420 pcs. and others. Later everything is transferred to other depots for supplies.

The best work and energy has shown:
Head of Major warehouse nuts.
Chief Petty Officer DEGTYAREV storage card.
Head. Sheikhetov repository.

Thrown in Gniezno to collect the trophy prodfurazha Granary number 3315 in a short period from 26 January to 1 February identified and gathered at the warehouse more than 900 tons of various food, 15,000 liters of alcohol and more than 100 thousand. Liters of wine.

Without limiting the collection prodfurazha warehouse collected and taken on record
¬economic assets.


Sheets ..............................7000 pieces ......
Pillowcases ...............................4000 pieces ......
Manufacture ................................ 0.25 wagon
Thread ......................................
Overcoat German ..................... 3 car
Different house. property ............. 2 car
Tires ........................
Carbines ..................................... 1 car
Saddles bike .................... 0.5 car
Museum values ​​................... 1 car
Candles .....................................
Aluminium tiles ................... 8 and other platforms.

During this time the warehouse organized grinding grain at the mill. His work warehouse held without protection, labor, involving for this purpose
the local population.

Good performance in the show:
Head warehouse captain Zasypkina
Head of Department of Art store. Lieutenant Swift.
The experience of the first days of the offensive showed that the army and army often comes trophy taken food with great delay, and the tendency of registration retroactively.

To account for and receiving trophy Food Prodotdelom front formated by grain warehouses 9 captured warehouses, which are located in areas with large numbers of trophies.

Warehouse number 3315 - Zyrardow - Alcohol 410,000 Litres and Guzuv - 2100 tonnes of sugar
Warehouse number 3313-a - Gmina Łyszkowice - 400 tonnes of sugar
Warehouse number 3309-a - Brześć Kujawski - 12,000 tons of sugar
Warehouse number 3311 - Belebzhezets - different food than 10,000 tons
Warehouse number 3309 - Bromberg - various different commodities. More than 10,000 tons
Warehouse number 3314 - Shomotuly - 7000 tonnes of sugar, 220 tons suhoovoschey
Warehouse number 3315 - Gnezen - 8000 tonnes of sugar.
Warehouse number 3308 - Kalisz - different food
Warehouse number 3315 - Gnezen - 400 tons of meat.

In addition, a number of major points to account for 8 trophies sent military representatives Prodotdela fighters to protect the identified food.

Formed captured warehouses and military representatives in posting items that have captured the food play a great importance in accounting,
saving and rational use of food.

However, the number of warehouses far enough to take into account all the trophies and not to allow unregistered spend them.

Officers ......................................4 People.
Sergeants ..........................10 People.
Red Army men ...............................22 People.
ZIS-5 .......................3 pcs.,
Now the front should be at least 50 warehouses with the staff at each location:

i shіѵtishpp chepѵ ^ ^ ....................... shі.,

to each existing plant sugar alcohol and the presence of the finished product, in all food plants, in cities as military depots so on prodbazah state value and stores could supply warehouse.

Due to the large [mu] quantities [in] coming trophy animals no longerneed to haul from the west district. Vistula left there zhivskota.
Traffic commandant parts at the crossings have been instructed - no head of cattle in the West Bank. Vistula not miss. All the cattle between the Bug
and the Vistula concentrated in herds, and with the onset of grazing will be driven away for Bug.
The presence of food in the captured huge territory liberated 20 days front, due to the limited time and lack of power is not taken into account completely.

However, with obvious clarity can be stated that the need for the front of all kinds of food and feed covered for many months without delivery.

A small number of trophies on fats, tobacco and spices is the need for their delivery.
Currently partially replaced by fats and meat would be appropriate legitimate meat substitute at least 50% of normal fat.
Tobacco-shag detected in small amounts, so completely subject to importation.
Pepper, bay leaf and mustard in absolutely no trophies. There are all kinds of herbs and essences, apparently used by the enemy as a condiment, but these spices have not been studied and is not suitable for the taste to accepted for the supply of the Red Army, this can not be used.

Zam. Quartermaster 1st Bel. Front
Colonel / c TKACHEV

CAMD RF, f. 233, op. 2332, d. 129, l. 45-48. - Script.

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Re: Combined Arms Armies in the Vistula-Oder Operation

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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 28 Feb 2017, 15:40

https://pamyat-naroda.ru/documents/view/?id=133352658

Troop number for the 8 Guard Army on 15th January 1945 (D+1)
Rifle Corps:
Men: 52,347
Horses: 8,597
Motor Vehicles: 1,245
Tanks: 0

Armoured units:
Men: 2,775
Horses: 0
Motor Vehicles: 376
Tanks: 32

Artillery units:
Men: 27,026
Horses: 27
Motor Vehicles: 2,708
Tanks: 0

PVO units
Men: 4,050
Horses: 0
Motor Vehicles: 439
Tanks: 0

Sapper units
Men: 1339
Horses: 172
Motor Vehicles: 72
Tanks: 0

Total for Army and supporting units:
Men: 87,537
Horses: 8,796 (9.9 men per horse)
Motor Vehicles: 4,540 (19.3 men per vehicle)
Tanks: 32
These figures relate to the Front Line units only as there seems to be no listing for support units such as hospitals which were also under Army command.

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