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Tazinskaja (RUSS) (a.k.a. Tatsinskaya, Tatsinskiy, Talovski) November 1942
Tazinskaja (RUSS) (a.k.a. Tatsinskaya, Tatsinskiy, Talovski) (ZNr. 10-
3710) (c. 48 11 N – 41 16 E)
General: complex of 3 operational airfields and landing grounds in S Russia
247 km WSW of Stalingrad (Volgograd), 160 km NE of Rostov and 102 km
SE of Millerovo (Tatsinskaya/West, T/South and T/North) and adjacent to
major rail and road connections. T-South (c. 48 10 00 N – 41 16 41 E) was
also called Nowyj-Cholan (Novyy Kholan) and located 3.4 km S of
Tatsinskaya town center. The other two, T-North and T-West, were
improvised satellites of T-South and do not appear in the contemporary
German airfield directories and maps. History: in German use by 21 Jul
42; greatly expanded during October and the first half of November 1942 to
serve out the winter as one of 7 major air bases around Stalingrad. Surface
and Dimensions: T-South had a natural surface measuring approx. 2600 x
2400 meters (2845 x 2625 yards) with a 1500 meter grass runway.
Infrastructure: T/South had 4 single and 1 double wood-framed flight and
repair hangars on the NE boundary and 2 smaller workshop buildings just W
of these; next in line moving toward the SW was a tent encampment with
some 200 – 220 tents, mainly for maintenance and servicing personnel
along with the flight operations/control tower building; at the SW corner
were 6 or 7 warehouses for the storage of fuel, bombs and ammunition.
There was a base housing area just off the NE corner that contained some
60 structures, many of these being huts and large tents. Dispersal: aircraft
parked on long aprons in front of the hangars and warehouse buildings at
the NE and SW sides of the airfield that appears to have had a capacity for
96 Ju 52s. Additional parking for many more aircraft was available on and
off the airfield.
Remarks:
8 Oct 42: primitive accommodations (tents and earthen bunkers) and no
fuel except for fighters and transport aircraft, according to aircrew from LG
1.
23 Nov 42: became the Ju 52 transport hub for the Stalingrad airlift.
1 Dec 42: orders issued for the basing of 7 Gruppen of Ju 52s and 2
Gruppen of Ju 86s at Tatsinskaya.
3 Dec 42: bombed during the day by A-20 bombers belonging to elements
of Soviet 221 BAD - slight damage reported by the Germans.
8 Dec 42: bombed at night by 18 Bostons IIIs (A-20s) – claimed 10 (17?)
aircraft on the ground plus hits on the fuel and ammunition dumps, but
German records only reported the loss of 1 x Ju 52 from Flieger-Kp./Ln.-Rgt.
38 damaged on the ground along with 15 casualties.
9 Dec 42: mid-morning raid by 14 Boston IIIs - 4 Ju 52 transports were
destroyed on the ground as well as a fuel dump and an ammunition dump
without loss to the Russians.
21 Dec 42: bombed by Soviet 221 BAD Boston IIIs - 3 x Ju 86 transports
said to have been damaged on the ground.
24 Dec 42: overrun by Russian tanks and armored infantry from Soviet
24th Tank Corps – 70-72 Ju 52s destroyed on the airfield (other sources say
"at least 50 aircraft lost") or demolished together with all of the maintenance
and ground handling equipment, according to the Russian account.
Richthofen's personal diary gives 22 serviceable Ju 52s and 24 serviceable
Ju 86s destroyed on the airfield but makes no mention of the number of
unserviceable aircraft lost (more likely, these were all unserviceable aircraft
that could not be moved). Flown out and escaping were 108 Ju 52s and 16
Ju 86s. Additionally, fuel trucks and aircraft engine warming trucks were
destroyed, and warehouses and dumps full of fuel, bombs, ammunition,
food, spare parts and similar were captured. The Luftversorgungsführer
Gen. Fiebig and his staff were aboard the last plane to leave Tatsinskaya,
and flew to Novocherkassk.
28 Dec 42: airfield retaken by German forces (11. Pz.Div.). Evidence of
Soviet war crimes against captured Luftwaffe personnel allegedly found.
31 Dec 42: taken back for the second time by the Russians before the
Luftwaffe could restock it and start using it again, but then again in German
hands a day or so later.
2 Jan 43: fighters, ground attack and reconnaissance aircraft based at
Morosovskaya evacuated to Tatsinskaya.
7 Jan 43: last Wehrmacht personnel departed airfield.
Operational Units:
Luftwaffe: II./JG 52 (T-South/Novyy Kholan, Jul 42); Flugbereitschaft VIII.
Fliegerkorps (Jul-Dec 42); elements of 3.(H)/Aufkl.Gr. 31 (Tatsinskaya,
Jul/Aug 42); 2.(F)/Aufkl.Gr. 11 (T/Ost, Jul-Oct 42); Stab/St.G. 2
(Tatsinskaya, Jul 42); I./St.G. 2 (Tatsinskaya, Jul/Aug 42); II./St.G. 2
(T/Süd and West, Jul/Aug 42, Jan 43); Stab/Schl.G. 1 (Tatsinskaya, Jul/Aug
42); II./Schl.G. 1 (Tatsinskaya, Jul/Aug 42); I./St.G. 77 (T/Süd); III./ZG 1
(T/Nord); II./St.G. 1 (T/Süd); Stab/KG 76 (Tatsinskaya, Aug-Oct 42); I./KG
76 (Tatsinskaya, Aug-Oct 42); II./KG 76 (T/Süd, Aug-Oct 42); III./KG 76
(Tatsinskaya, Aug-Oct 42); I./KG 51 (Tatsinskaya, Aug-Oct, Nov-Dec 42);
III./KG 51 (T/Süd, Aug-Sep 42); detachment of 2.(F)/Aufkl.Gr. Ob.d.L. (Oct-
Dec 42); III./KG 6 (Tatsinskaya, Oct-Nov 42); KGr.z.b.V. 900 (Tatsinskaya,
Oct-Dec 42); I./ZG 1 (Tatsinskaya, Nov-Dec 42); 3.(F)/Aufkl.Gr. 10
(Tatsinskaya, Nov-Dec 42); KGr. z.b.V. 50 (Tatsinskaya, Nov-Dec 42);
elements of KGr. z.b.V. 21 (Tatsinskaya, Dec 42); KGr. z.b.V. 22
(Tatsinskaya, Dec 42); KGr. z.b.V. 500 (Tatsinskaya, Dec 42); KGr. z.b.V.
700 (Tatsinskaya, Dec 42); 10./ZG 1; 4.(Pz)/Schl.G. 1 (Tatsinskaya, Dec
42); Stab/NAGr. 7 (Tatsinskaya, Dec 42)?; 4.(H)/Aufkl.Gr. 10 (Dec 42)?
Romanian: HQ 2d Bomber Wing (Oct 42); I Bomber Group (Oct, Dec 42);
III Bomber Group (Dec 42); V Bomber Group (Oct, Dec 42); VI Fighter Gp.
(Dec 42); VII Fighter Gp. (Nov-Dec 42).
Station Commands: Fl.H.Kdtr. E (mot) 61/XI (Aug-Dec 42); Fl.H.Kdtr. E
18/VI (Sep 42); Fl.H.Kdtr. E 64/XI (Sep-Dec 42); Fl.H.Kdtr. E 34/XI (Oct-
Dec 42).
Station Units (on various dates – not complete): Stab/VIII. Fliegerkorps
(Gen. Fiebig, Jul-Dec 42); Luftversorgungsführer (Stalingrad) (Gen. Fiebig,
Nov-Dec 42); Stab/Fliegerdivision Donez (Dec 42); Transportfliegerführer 2
(Dec 42); Luftgaustab z.b.V. 21 (Aug/Sep 42); Koflug 7/XI (Aug-Dec 42);
Koflug 3/XII (Aug 42); 2. Flugh.Betr.Kp. KG 1 (Dec 42); 1. Flugh.Betr.Kp.
ZG 2 (Dec 42); 4. Flugh.Betr.Kp. KG 77 (Nov-Dec 42); 1. Flugh.Betr.Kp.
KGr. 126 (Dec 42); 1.Zug of le.I/Feldwerftverband 20 (Dec 42); 5.Zug of
le.II/Feldwerftverband 20 (Dec 42); elements of le.III/Feldwerftverband 20
(T/South - Aug 42); le.Feldwerft-Zug 3/40 (Dec 42); le.Feldwerft-Zug 6/40
(Dec 42); 3. Flugh.Betr.Kp. z.b.V. (Dec 42); Res.Flugh.Betr.Kp. 3/VI (Dec
42); Res.Flugh.Betr.Kp. 4/VIII (Dec 42); Wintersondergerätetrupp 47; part
of II./Flak-Lehr-Rgt. (Dec 42); 4. and 10./Flak-Rgt. 38 (T/Süd, Nov 42);
gem.Flak-Abt. 125 (Dec 42); 1./gem.Flak-Abt. 147 (Aug 42); 1./le.Flak-Abt.
774 (Aug 42); le.Flak-Abt. 851 (Jul 42); elements of I.(Feldfernkabel-
Bau)/Ln.-Rgt. 12 (Jul-Sep 42); elements of III.(Tel.Bau)/Ln.-Rgt. 22 (Sep
42); Stab, I.(Betr.) and II.(Feldfernkabel-Bau)/Ln.-Rgt. 38 (Jul-Dec 42);
elements of III./Ln.-Rgt. 38 (Sep 42); elements of Ln.-Betr.Abt. z.b.V. 12
(Jul-Aug 42); Ln.-Betr.Kp. (mot)/NAGr. 13 (Aug 42); Ln.-Betr.Zug z.b.V. 11
(Dec 42)?; Lw.-Bau-Btl. 9/VI (Jul-Dec 42); elements of Lw.-Bau-Btl. 7/XIII
(Dec 42); Flieger-Geräteausgabestelle (Eis.) 53/VI (Dec 42); Nachschub-Kp.
d.Lw. 8/IV (Dec 42); Nachschubkolonnen-Abt. d.Fliegerkorps VIII (Jul-Dec
42); Nachschubkolonne-Abt. 5/XVII (Dec 42)?; Trsp.Kol. d.Lw. 32/II (Dec
42); Trsp.Kol. d.Lw. 33/II (Dec 42); Trsp.Kol. d.Lw. 34/II (Dec 42);
Trsp.Kol. d.Lw. 35/II (Dec 42); Kw.Werkstattzug d.Lw. (Flieg.) Go 242 (Dec
42); 5. Ldssch.Kp./Luftflotte 4 (Dec 42); Ldssch.Zug d.Lw. 440/VI (Dec
42)?; Flieger-Untersuchungsstelle 10/XVII (Dec 42).
Romanian: Stab, 2 heavy and 3 light batteries of Romanian XVII Flak-Abt.
From Romanian 4th AA Brigade (Sep-Dec 42).
[Sources: chronologies; AFHRA, BA-MA; NARA incl. T-321 roll 239/OKL 903;
OKL Flugplatzatlas; PRO/NA; Taghon, LG 1/Band 2, p.136; Forczyk, Red
Christmas; web site ww2.dk]
from: Luftwaffe Airfields 1935-45 Russia (incl. Ukraine, Belarus & Bessarabia) By Henry L. deZeng IV
Tazinskaja (RUSS) (a.k.a. Tatsinskaya, Tatsinskiy, Talovski) (ZNr. 10-
3710) (c. 48 11 N – 41 16 E)
General: complex of 3 operational airfields and landing grounds in S Russia
247 km WSW of Stalingrad (Volgograd), 160 km NE of Rostov and 102 km
SE of Millerovo (Tatsinskaya/West, T/South and T/North) and adjacent to
major rail and road connections. T-South (c. 48 10 00 N – 41 16 41 E) was
also called Nowyj-Cholan (Novyy Kholan) and located 3.4 km S of
Tatsinskaya town center. The other two, T-North and T-West, were
improvised satellites of T-South and do not appear in the contemporary
German airfield directories and maps. History: in German use by 21 Jul
42; greatly expanded during October and the first half of November 1942 to
serve out the winter as one of 7 major air bases around Stalingrad. Surface
and Dimensions: T-South had a natural surface measuring approx. 2600 x
2400 meters (2845 x 2625 yards) with a 1500 meter grass runway.
Infrastructure: T/South had 4 single and 1 double wood-framed flight and
repair hangars on the NE boundary and 2 smaller workshop buildings just W
of these; next in line moving toward the SW was a tent encampment with
some 200 – 220 tents, mainly for maintenance and servicing personnel
along with the flight operations/control tower building; at the SW corner
were 6 or 7 warehouses for the storage of fuel, bombs and ammunition.
There was a base housing area just off the NE corner that contained some
60 structures, many of these being huts and large tents. Dispersal: aircraft
parked on long aprons in front of the hangars and warehouse buildings at
the NE and SW sides of the airfield that appears to have had a capacity for
96 Ju 52s. Additional parking for many more aircraft was available on and
off the airfield.
Remarks:
8 Oct 42: primitive accommodations (tents and earthen bunkers) and no
fuel except for fighters and transport aircraft, according to aircrew from LG
1.
23 Nov 42: became the Ju 52 transport hub for the Stalingrad airlift.
1 Dec 42: orders issued for the basing of 7 Gruppen of Ju 52s and 2
Gruppen of Ju 86s at Tatsinskaya.
3 Dec 42: bombed during the day by A-20 bombers belonging to elements
of Soviet 221 BAD - slight damage reported by the Germans.
8 Dec 42: bombed at night by 18 Bostons IIIs (A-20s) – claimed 10 (17?)
aircraft on the ground plus hits on the fuel and ammunition dumps, but
German records only reported the loss of 1 x Ju 52 from Flieger-Kp./Ln.-Rgt.
38 damaged on the ground along with 15 casualties.
9 Dec 42: mid-morning raid by 14 Boston IIIs - 4 Ju 52 transports were
destroyed on the ground as well as a fuel dump and an ammunition dump
without loss to the Russians.
21 Dec 42: bombed by Soviet 221 BAD Boston IIIs - 3 x Ju 86 transports
said to have been damaged on the ground.
24 Dec 42: overrun by Russian tanks and armored infantry from Soviet
24th Tank Corps – 70-72 Ju 52s destroyed on the airfield (other sources say
"at least 50 aircraft lost") or demolished together with all of the maintenance
and ground handling equipment, according to the Russian account.
Richthofen's personal diary gives 22 serviceable Ju 52s and 24 serviceable
Ju 86s destroyed on the airfield but makes no mention of the number of
unserviceable aircraft lost (more likely, these were all unserviceable aircraft
that could not be moved). Flown out and escaping were 108 Ju 52s and 16
Ju 86s. Additionally, fuel trucks and aircraft engine warming trucks were
destroyed, and warehouses and dumps full of fuel, bombs, ammunition,
food, spare parts and similar were captured. The Luftversorgungsführer
Gen. Fiebig and his staff were aboard the last plane to leave Tatsinskaya,
and flew to Novocherkassk.
28 Dec 42: airfield retaken by German forces (11. Pz.Div.). Evidence of
Soviet war crimes against captured Luftwaffe personnel allegedly found.
31 Dec 42: taken back for the second time by the Russians before the
Luftwaffe could restock it and start using it again, but then again in German
hands a day or so later.
2 Jan 43: fighters, ground attack and reconnaissance aircraft based at
Morosovskaya evacuated to Tatsinskaya.
7 Jan 43: last Wehrmacht personnel departed airfield.
Operational Units:
Luftwaffe: II./JG 52 (T-South/Novyy Kholan, Jul 42); Flugbereitschaft VIII.
Fliegerkorps (Jul-Dec 42); elements of 3.(H)/Aufkl.Gr. 31 (Tatsinskaya,
Jul/Aug 42); 2.(F)/Aufkl.Gr. 11 (T/Ost, Jul-Oct 42); Stab/St.G. 2
(Tatsinskaya, Jul 42); I./St.G. 2 (Tatsinskaya, Jul/Aug 42); II./St.G. 2
(T/Süd and West, Jul/Aug 42, Jan 43); Stab/Schl.G. 1 (Tatsinskaya, Jul/Aug
42); II./Schl.G. 1 (Tatsinskaya, Jul/Aug 42); I./St.G. 77 (T/Süd); III./ZG 1
(T/Nord); II./St.G. 1 (T/Süd); Stab/KG 76 (Tatsinskaya, Aug-Oct 42); I./KG
76 (Tatsinskaya, Aug-Oct 42); II./KG 76 (T/Süd, Aug-Oct 42); III./KG 76
(Tatsinskaya, Aug-Oct 42); I./KG 51 (Tatsinskaya, Aug-Oct, Nov-Dec 42);
III./KG 51 (T/Süd, Aug-Sep 42); detachment of 2.(F)/Aufkl.Gr. Ob.d.L. (Oct-
Dec 42); III./KG 6 (Tatsinskaya, Oct-Nov 42); KGr.z.b.V. 900 (Tatsinskaya,
Oct-Dec 42); I./ZG 1 (Tatsinskaya, Nov-Dec 42); 3.(F)/Aufkl.Gr. 10
(Tatsinskaya, Nov-Dec 42); KGr. z.b.V. 50 (Tatsinskaya, Nov-Dec 42);
elements of KGr. z.b.V. 21 (Tatsinskaya, Dec 42); KGr. z.b.V. 22
(Tatsinskaya, Dec 42); KGr. z.b.V. 500 (Tatsinskaya, Dec 42); KGr. z.b.V.
700 (Tatsinskaya, Dec 42); 10./ZG 1; 4.(Pz)/Schl.G. 1 (Tatsinskaya, Dec
42); Stab/NAGr. 7 (Tatsinskaya, Dec 42)?; 4.(H)/Aufkl.Gr. 10 (Dec 42)?
Romanian: HQ 2d Bomber Wing (Oct 42); I Bomber Group (Oct, Dec 42);
III Bomber Group (Dec 42); V Bomber Group (Oct, Dec 42); VI Fighter Gp.
(Dec 42); VII Fighter Gp. (Nov-Dec 42).
Station Commands: Fl.H.Kdtr. E (mot) 61/XI (Aug-Dec 42); Fl.H.Kdtr. E
18/VI (Sep 42); Fl.H.Kdtr. E 64/XI (Sep-Dec 42); Fl.H.Kdtr. E 34/XI (Oct-
Dec 42).
Station Units (on various dates – not complete): Stab/VIII. Fliegerkorps
(Gen. Fiebig, Jul-Dec 42); Luftversorgungsführer (Stalingrad) (Gen. Fiebig,
Nov-Dec 42); Stab/Fliegerdivision Donez (Dec 42); Transportfliegerführer 2
(Dec 42); Luftgaustab z.b.V. 21 (Aug/Sep 42); Koflug 7/XI (Aug-Dec 42);
Koflug 3/XII (Aug 42); 2. Flugh.Betr.Kp. KG 1 (Dec 42); 1. Flugh.Betr.Kp.
ZG 2 (Dec 42); 4. Flugh.Betr.Kp. KG 77 (Nov-Dec 42); 1. Flugh.Betr.Kp.
KGr. 126 (Dec 42); 1.Zug of le.I/Feldwerftverband 20 (Dec 42); 5.Zug of
le.II/Feldwerftverband 20 (Dec 42); elements of le.III/Feldwerftverband 20
(T/South - Aug 42); le.Feldwerft-Zug 3/40 (Dec 42); le.Feldwerft-Zug 6/40
(Dec 42); 3. Flugh.Betr.Kp. z.b.V. (Dec 42); Res.Flugh.Betr.Kp. 3/VI (Dec
42); Res.Flugh.Betr.Kp. 4/VIII (Dec 42); Wintersondergerätetrupp 47; part
of II./Flak-Lehr-Rgt. (Dec 42); 4. and 10./Flak-Rgt. 38 (T/Süd, Nov 42);
gem.Flak-Abt. 125 (Dec 42); 1./gem.Flak-Abt. 147 (Aug 42); 1./le.Flak-Abt.
774 (Aug 42); le.Flak-Abt. 851 (Jul 42); elements of I.(Feldfernkabel-
Bau)/Ln.-Rgt. 12 (Jul-Sep 42); elements of III.(Tel.Bau)/Ln.-Rgt. 22 (Sep
42); Stab, I.(Betr.) and II.(Feldfernkabel-Bau)/Ln.-Rgt. 38 (Jul-Dec 42);
elements of III./Ln.-Rgt. 38 (Sep 42); elements of Ln.-Betr.Abt. z.b.V. 12
(Jul-Aug 42); Ln.-Betr.Kp. (mot)/NAGr. 13 (Aug 42); Ln.-Betr.Zug z.b.V. 11
(Dec 42)?; Lw.-Bau-Btl. 9/VI (Jul-Dec 42); elements of Lw.-Bau-Btl. 7/XIII
(Dec 42); Flieger-Geräteausgabestelle (Eis.) 53/VI (Dec 42); Nachschub-Kp.
d.Lw. 8/IV (Dec 42); Nachschubkolonnen-Abt. d.Fliegerkorps VIII (Jul-Dec
42); Nachschubkolonne-Abt. 5/XVII (Dec 42)?; Trsp.Kol. d.Lw. 32/II (Dec
42); Trsp.Kol. d.Lw. 33/II (Dec 42); Trsp.Kol. d.Lw. 34/II (Dec 42);
Trsp.Kol. d.Lw. 35/II (Dec 42); Kw.Werkstattzug d.Lw. (Flieg.) Go 242 (Dec
42); 5. Ldssch.Kp./Luftflotte 4 (Dec 42); Ldssch.Zug d.Lw. 440/VI (Dec
42)?; Flieger-Untersuchungsstelle 10/XVII (Dec 42).
Romanian: Stab, 2 heavy and 3 light batteries of Romanian XVII Flak-Abt.
From Romanian 4th AA Brigade (Sep-Dec 42).
[Sources: chronologies; AFHRA, BA-MA; NARA incl. T-321 roll 239/OKL 903;
OKL Flugplatzatlas; PRO/NA; Taghon, LG 1/Band 2, p.136; Forczyk, Red
Christmas; web site ww2.dk]
from: Luftwaffe Airfields 1935-45 Russia (incl. Ukraine, Belarus & Bessarabia) By Henry L. deZeng IV
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