The 5th Fighter Aviation Regiment () was a fighter regiment of the Soviet Air Forces () which took part in the Soviet–Japanese War.
History
The regiment was formed on September 7, 1938, in the Siberian Military District.Order of the Military Council No. M/001168 of 31.08.1938 On May 31, 1939, the regiment was transferred to cover the 1st Red Banner Army until June 15, 1939.
On June 22, 1941, the regiment, located at Sukhaya Rechka, was part of 32nd Mixed Aviation Division (or 33rd? :ru:33-я смешанная авиационная дивизия), earmarked to support 1st Red Banner Army, alongside two other fighter regiments and a bomber regiment.Niehorster, http://niehorster.org/012_ussr/41_oob/far-east/air.html.
From August 1942, the regiment formed part of the .Holm, www.ww2.dk, see below.
On August 9, with the Soviet entry into the Pacific War, the 5th Fighter Aviation Regiment was moved to the front and flew sorties until September 3rd, 1945.Multiple authors. List No. 12 aviation regiments of the Air Force of the Red Army, which were part of the Active Army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 / Pokrovsky. — Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Military-Scientific Directorate of the General Staff. — Moscow: Voenizdat, 1960. - T. Appendix to the Directive of the General Staff of January 18, 1960 No. 170023. — 96 s.
The regiment was disbanded on either April 1, 1947,https://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/iap/5iap.htm or May 5, 1947 as part of the at the Kamen-Rybolov airfield.Directive of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR No. org/1/470260 of 27.02.1947
Commanders List of commanders for the entire duration of the regiment: Colonel Lisin Vasilsi Timofeevich (1938) Lieutenant colonel Manaseyev Dmitry Ivanovich (December 2, 1942 – December 31, 1945)
Aircraft operated + Aircraft used by the 5th Fighter Aviation RegimentOrder of the 9th VA No. 00400 of 15.08.1944 From To Aircraft Variant 1938 1944 Polikarpov I-15 I-15bis 1939 1944 Polikarpov I-16 1944 1945 Yakovlev Yak-7 Yak-7B 1945 1947 Yakovlev Yak-3
See also Strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II
References Citations
Bibliography Multiple authors. List No. 12 aviation regiments of the Air Force of the Red Army, which were part of the Active Army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 / Pokrovsky. — Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Military-Scientific Directorate of the General Staff. — Moscow: Voenizdat, 1960. - T. Appendix to the Directive of the General Staff of January 18, 1960, No. 170023. Vse istrebitelʹnye aviapolki Stalina : pervaia polnaia ėntsiklopediia. Moskva: Yauza-press. 2014 . Also rendered as Anokhin V.A. Bykov M.Yu. All fighter regiments of Stalin. The first complete encyclopedia. — Popular science edition. - Moscow: Yauza-press, 2014. - S. 304–308. — 944 p."