Artfactial Posted July 3, 2024 Posted July 3, 2024 I'm working on making interactable reproductions of WW2 pilot's flight logs in the form of fillable PDFs. It can be found here. I've got documents for most of the major airforces, but can't seem to find Soviet flight logs of that era on either the English or Russian language internet? Does anyone have a link or photo material of Soviet flight logs? I've got a bunch of '50s ones, but I don't think those are the same as the ones used in WW2.
Burdokva Posted January 30 Posted January 30 Hello, there was no standardized flight log in the Soviet VVS. Quality varied wildly widly but I can provide some examples. Digitised Soviet military archives are available here: https://pamyat-naroda.ru/ The comat diary (flight log) of 139th Guards IAP (139 ГИАП) is examplary, it is typewritten, with graphics representing missions (escort patters, aerial combat), very detailed statistics (planes in service, ammonition used, flight hours, etc.). 139th Guards IAP Combat Diaries Here's an example (inserting the image from the link does not work): 139th GIAP, October 17th 1944 The one of 812th IAP (812 ИАП) is also highly detailed, with statistics on flight hours, planes lost, mission flight times, etc. but it's written by hand on a notebook, and in late 1944 through to May 1945 on what appears to be a Lithuanian accounting book. No graphics. 812th IAP Combat Diary On the more average side, you have the 347th IAP (347 ИАП) that has more basic description of missions, flight times and events. Other units do not have their archives available. I would recommend to browse through the archives and find what you believe "works". One advise, it seems that Soviet units meticilously documented the amount and type of ammo used in combat and training. 1
Artfactial Posted February 12 Author Posted February 12 Thank you so much! That clears op a lot of questions! Without standardization that makes it partially easier for me. But it will be undoubtably the hardest to reproduce through the alphabet, language and handwriting barriers. That's an impressive digitization archive, I'll have a browse through it.:)
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