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Wycofanie 239. Baranowickiej Dywizji Lotnictwa Myśliwskiego Armii Radzieckiej z Pomorza Zachodniego

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Bierca A.
Przegląd Zachodniopomorski
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2013
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issue 2
81-121
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The Red Army occupied the area of the contemporary Western Pomerania in the first months of 1945. Among a few dozen of former German garrisons left at its disposal in this area, there were also aviation garrisons. Since 1952 they were used by branches of the 239th Baranowicka Fighter Aviation Division of the 4th Air Army Group of the Soviet Forces in Poland. Operational airports of this division were situated in Kluczewo, Chojna and Bagicz near Kołobrzeg. Moreover, the Division also used a ground and alternate aerodrome situated in the area of the today’s Western Pomerania Province. The key components of the Division were three Fighter Regiments: the 159th Noworosyjski (New-Russian) Fighter Aviation Regiment Guards (in Kluczewo), the 871st Pomeranian Fighter Aviation Regiment (in Bagicz), and the 582nd Fighter Aviation Regiment (in Chojna). At the beginning of the 1990s, the armament of these three Regiments comprised about 110 combat planes, as well as combat trainer planes. The withdrawal of the military branches of the 239th Fighter Aviation Division took a few years, which was the result of both military and political issues. The entire process was an inherent part of the huge operation of retreat and reduction of the Soviet Army, which was launched in the late 1980s. In the case of the 239th Division branches, it terminated at the end of 1992. At that point, the Cold War had come to an end. The USSR was dissolved; the Soviet Army was not there any longer. However, in the history of the 239th Division, this period was epitomised by the rearmament of two regiments constituting it into Su-27 Flanker, which was then deemed the most modern Soviet Fighter. The period also witnessed an expansion of the garrisons occupied by the division. The units leaving the West-Pomeranian airports fl ew to Russia. There, either they were dissolved at short notice, or, like in the case of the 159th Noworosyjski Fighter Aviation Regiment Guards, they underwent gradual transformation, and they have been operating to this day as part of the structures of the Air Force and the Air Defence Forces of the Russian Federation.
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