Tank Brigade personnel/eqpt summaries 1944-45

[Gary Kennedy]

Did anyone ever find a decent summary on pamyat-naroda showing the authorised strength of the Tank Brigade under Shtat 010/500-506?

I found one, though I can't recall where it was from now, which I've attached here as a PDF.

I haven't forgotten the series Art found some years back now, viewtopic.php?f=79&t=218766&hilit=shtat+010%2F502

I wondered if there was anything else on the summary side, regarding personnel by rank, and weapons and vehicles by type.

Gary

[raymos]

I'm sorry I don't have anything to contribute, and I don't want to hijack your thread (well, too much ), but I'm wondering about specifics of vehicles in tank brigades. When an infantry organization shows 1.5t trucks, I'm assuming those are GAZ-AA or -MM. Is that correct?

Did any of these formations receive lend-lease halftracks? And how do they show up in organization tables?

Thanks,
Phil

[Art]

When an infantry organization shows 1.5t trucks, I'm assuming those are GAZ-AA or -MM. Is that correct?

In principle any truck with similar payload. So, for example, Ford-6 in lieu of GAZ-AA, or Studebaker in lieu of ZIS-5.

Did any of these formations receive lend-lease halftracks?

Toward the end of the war M3A1 scout car was a standard vehicle of reconnaissance units. Some anti-aircraft companies were equipped with M17 halftracks with quad machine guns. Halftracks as personnel carriers either LL or captured were rare and employed mostly as command vehicles.