T/O & E OF 10TH GUARDS SEPARATE GUARDS BATTALION AND OF THE RECONNAISSANCE COMPANY OF 24TH MECHANIZED REGIMENT

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• Publication Date: November 19, 1954
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SUBJECT T/0 & E of 10th Guards Separate Guards DATE DISTR. 19 Novemh. x 1954
Battalion and of the Reconnaissance Company
of 24th Mechanized Regiment NO. OF PAGES 12
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
~U fbb NTIAL
ARMY review completed.
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL
East Germany
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT T/O & E, Weapons, and Equipment
DATE OF INFORMATION
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE DISTR. 30,3ept 1954
NO. OF PAGES 11
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
2.
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This
3Fu.e~.t was suioraa.nate to the Counterintelligence Administration
'G, in Potsdam, It served as a guard unit for the compound~1? ? and
the field prison located in the compound, and personnel occasionally
escorted prisoners being returned to the USSR as far as Brest-
Litovsk.
.* . kfl y o' s
e MT Plat s rave had more personnel.
there were not enough veh c es in Z he
battalion tp move all the personnel and equipment at one time.
ars3 , ciid not constitute actual strength figures.
guard cot anies .and Housekeeping Plat. were up to strength out;
th
platoons. The EM strengths given for guard companies were estiauat
Gd. Bn., with the exce tion ofhitsrgard pion of the 10th
e~ p guard platoons and MG
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e organ za on, weapons, and equipment of the 10th Sep.Gd.Bn.:
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a. Actual Strength and Estimated Organization
t
actual count. Based on the rations 25X1
EM strength fluctuated between 385 and 390.
For example tea was issued on A 'basis of one gram -per man er
day.
Periodical linen and underclothing exchange issue and issue of
matches and tobacco were made on a basis of 115-120 25X1
men per company. (See Annex A.
(1)
Battalion CO and Staff
(a) CO - Lt. Col. (fnu) SUKHANOV (Technical Troops branch)
(b) C o S - Capt. (fnu) REZHANKOV (Technical Troops 'branch);
subordinate to battalion CO
(c) Battalion Staff Officers -
1.
2.
3.
Political Off. - Lt. Col. (fnu) TISCHKOV (Technical
Troops branch)
Supply Off. (Zamestitel' Po Snabzhenyu) - MaJ (fnu)
SHOFERENKO (Tk. and Mecz. Troops branch); also CO of
MT and Housekeeping Plats.
Personnel Records and Administrative Off. (Nachal'
nik Stroevoy Chasti) - Capt. (fnu) SIGOV (Inf. branch);
responsible for secret documents, orders, and
administrative matters
4. Party Secretary (PartOrg) - Capt. (fnu) AFANASIEV
(Inf. branch)
5. Komsomol Secretary (KomsOrg) - Lt. (fnu) NIRSHA
(Inf. branch)
6. Finance Off. (NachFin) - Capt. (fnu) INYOSHIN
(Intendance Corps branch)
3. Ord. Off. (Nachal'nik Artvooruzheniya) - Capt.
(fnu) VASCHUGIN (Technical Troops branch)
8. Club and Library Off. -`Lt. (fnu) SABIROV
(Inf. branch)
9. Sr. Surgeon - Lt. (fnu) BUGAKOV (Medical Corps
branch)
10. Surgeon - Lt. (fnu) BORUSHKOV (Medical Corps branch)
11. Special Sec. (Osoby Otdel) Off. - a lieutenant,
name unknown
(2) Housekeeping Plat. (KhozVzvod)
(a) There were no officers assigned to this platoon.
However, for command purposes, it was subordinate to
the battalion Supply Off.
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(3)
(b)
(c)
The unit had a total of 18 EM including NCOs. Of
this number, five were "sverkhsrochniki" (regular
army enlistees) with the following rank and duties:
1. Plat. Ldr. - master sergeant
2. Chief Mess Sgt. - senior sergeant
Cook Instructor - Junior sergeant
4. Bn. Chief Administrative Clerk - senior sergeant
Bn. Food and Clothing Sunnly Clerk - private
First
l
c
ass
Other members of the platoon included:
1. Bn. Supply Storekeepers- two privates
2. Administrative Clerk in office of Btu. Supply Off. -
private first class
Storekeeper, Bn. Arms Room - private first class
4. Movie Camera Operators - two privates (one was
also the librarian)
Ord. Man - junior sergeant
6. Ord. Man - private
Y. Administrative Clerk in office of Personnel Records
and Administrative off, - private first class
8. Bn. Engr. Maintenance Man - private
.. Shoe Repair Man - private
10. Tailor - private
11. Cook - private
(d) With the exception of the "sverkhsrochniki", the men
were armed with the 7.62-mm M1944 Mossin-Nagant carbine.
Motor Transport Plat. (AvtoVzvod)
(a) The platoon was subordinate to the Bn. Supply Off..
(b) There was one officer, the Plat. Ldr., Lt. (fnu)MARKOV.
(c) In addition, there were the following EM:
1, Auto Mechanics - two sergeants
2. Shop Machinist - one private
.1. Drivers - 20 privates
(d) All EM were armed with the 7.62-mm M1944 Mossin-Nagant
carbine
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(4) Guard Co. x 3
Each guard company consisted of:,
1.
2.
3.
CO - captain or major
Political Off. - lieutenant
Co. Hq. -
a. lst Sgt. - master sergeant
b. Medical Aid'Klan - sergeant
c. Company Clerk - private
d. Company Supply Clerk (Kaptenarmus) - private
4. Guard Plat. x 2
a. Plat. Ldr. - lieutenant
.
b. Plat. Sgt. - senior sergeant
c. Three squads, with one NCO squad leader and
10 privates in each squad
MG Plat.
a. Plat. Ldr. - lieutenant
b. Plat. Sgt. - senior sergeant
c. LMG Sqd. x 2 - one NCO squad leader and 10
privates in each squad
d. HMG Sqd. - one NCO squad leader and either 9
or 12 privates.
(b) With the exception of the first sergeants of the lst
and 2d Cos., and the Medical Aid Man, lst Co., who
were armed with 7.62-mm TT-M33 Tokarev pistols by
virtue of "sverkhsrochnik" status, all EM in the
guard platoons were armed with the 7.62-mm PPSh SMG.
(c) Each LMG squad had five 7.62-mm DP Degtyarev LMGs.
One private served as gunner and another private,
armed with a 7.62-,mm PPSh SMG, served as assistant
gunner.
(d) The HMG Sqd. contained either three or four 7,62..'mm
M1943 Goryixnov HMGs. Each HMG was serviced by three
privates - the gunner, assistant, and ammunition
bearer. The assistant and the ammunition bearer
were armed with 7.62 mm PPSh SMGs.
cooks were located and rotated 25X1
in the Housekeeping Fiat. and in the companies. `.f
made it impossible to keep track
total of ere assigned to the battalion.
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(b) Eight privates were assigned daily from the duty
company to pull KP for the entire battalion.
(c) The battalion had a field kitchen (type unknown)
Parked in one of the motor -pool sheds for stand-by
purposes. the kitchen could not
have serviced the entire battalion in an emergency.
(d) At the time of the 17 June uprisings in Berlin, EM
who were armed with the SMG were issued two drums
each containing 72 rounds of ammunition. After tYe.
emergency was declared over, the ammunition was
returned. it was returned on
or after 2 June.
(f)
M-e
Individual EM arms were kept in a rack, under lock
and key, in the billets of each Gd. Co. The company
CQ had the key to the rack at all times. EM individual
weapons of EM in the MT and Housekeeping Plats. were
kept in a rack at the MT Plat. billet. The platoon
CQ had the key to the rack at all times. Officers'
pistols were locked in an arms room at the Bn. H
building,
the condition of weapons in the battalion
was fair to good.
A German concern in Potsdam handled the battalion
laundry.:. all Soviet units in Pots 25X1
dam turned-1h laundry at the same point. Regulations
called for linen and laundry exchange every 10 days
for EM of Gd. Cos. and every week for EM who were
technical workers (i.e. mechanics, drivers, etc.)
Occasionally, the period was extended several days
because laundry from the previous period had not
been returned to the unit in time.
h. Weapons (as of June 1954)
(1) Individual Weapons
Total
(In alion)
Pistol, 7.62-mm, Tokarev 36 Used as sidearms by all officers
TT-33 in the battalion. "Sverkharochni25X1
could draw these pistols as a
In the
event of ostilities, sverkhsroch-
niki" would have to turn in their
pistols and draw their normal
T/O weapons.
SMGP .( .62-aunt PPSh 211 T/O weapon for all EM in the
battalion except machine gunners
and "sverkhsrochniki". In February
1954 EM of the Housekeeping Plat.
and MT Plat. turned in their SG's
and drew 7.62-mm M1944 Mossin-
Nagant carbines. No reasons were
given for the exchange.,
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Total Remarks
(In Battalion)
Carbine, 7:62-mm, Mossin-
Nagant, M1944
(2) Crew-served Weapons
37 Issued to ELI of the Housekeeping
and MT Plats. in February 1954
as replacement for PPSh SMG1s
Total Remarks
(In Battalion)
HMO, 7.62-mm Ooryunov 9-12
M19k3
~ The HM s
were of Soviet manufacture.
LMG, 7.62-mm Degtyarev IMP. 30(?)
(3) New weapons
10 per MG plat,
Ia new model rifle, pistol, SMa an
carbine had already been issued troops in the USSR to replace
old weapons of these types. Troops in Oermanv were
eventually to receive the same weapons
lit was larger than the 7.62-mm pistol cartridge
and smaller than the 7.62-mm rifle cartridge. No further
information,
c. Vehicles (as of June 1954)
Type Total Primary Use
(In Baia ion)
Cargo Truck 12 Two were used for everyday hauling
ZIS-5 jobs. One was used by MT Plat. for
driver training. Nine were kept as
emergency or stand-by vehicles
Cargo Truck 3 One was used for everyday hauling
GAZ AA jobs. Two were stand-by vehicles
used during company and battalion
tactical training, test, runs. and
troop excursions
Cargo Truck 2 Stand-by or emergency vehicles.
GAZ-63
Ambulance 1 Used to transport seriously ill
GAZ-55 personnel to hospitals.
Condition
Hauling and
training - Good,
emergency, and
poor respectivel,r
Fair to poor
New. They were
not issued to re-
place old trucks
but were assi'gnet
to the unit as
additional
vehicles.
Fair
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Type Total Primary Use
(In Ba , a ion)
Condition
Sedan, Opel 1 Battalion CO's vehicle. Occasion- Fair
"Kapitan" ally the CO permitted battalion
(military staff officers to use it.
vehicle)
Motorcycle, 1 Unknown, possibly a stand-by Unknown. Probabl
M-72 vehicle. poor. No man was
assigned to it
as driver, 25X1
tactual strength and organi-
Zat_b, weapons, and equipment of the Recon. Co.:
a. Actual Strength and Organization (as of November 1951)
3`tEMas
the total ire the eomoanv through actual count of EM on the
company roster.
strength should have teen men.
Sae Annex B.)
(1) Company Headquarters
(a) CO - Sr. Lt. (fnu) KUZNETSOV (Technical Troops branch)
(b) Political Off. - Capt. (fhu) POPOV (Technical Troops
branch)
(c) 1st Sgt. - master sergeant; who was also the Sec.
Chief, Svc. See (Otdeleniye Obe3pecheniya)
(d) Administrative Clerk - private; who was also a driver
in the Communications See.
Company Supply Clerk -- private; who was also a drives
in the Communications Sec,
(2) Communications Sec.
(a) Section Chief - sergeant
(b) Radio Operator - junior sergeant
(c) Motorcyclist - private
(d) Driver (and company Supply Clerk) - private
(e) Driver (and Administrative Clerk) - private
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(3) Svc. Sec.
(a) Section Chief - master sergeant; who also was company
lst Sgt.
(b) Chief Mechanic - junior sergeant
(c) Drivers - four privates
(4) Recon. Plat. x 3
platoons and one armored car platoon. Each platoon had
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a lieutenant (platoon leader), a senior sergeant (platoon
sergeant.), and an unknown number of sergeants aad privates.
b. Weapons (as of November 1951)
(1) Individual Weapons
carried the 7.62-mm M1895 Nagant revolver. Drivers of
armored cars carried the 7.62-mm PPSh SMG, and officers
carried the 7.62-mm TT-M33 Tokarev Pistol. All other
personnel in the company were issued the 7.62-mm M1944
Mossin.-Nagant carbine.
(2) Crew-Served Weapons
The only crew-served weapon in the company was one caliber
.50 Browning HMG which was mounted on the M-3A-1 Scout Car,
and used for firing practice during summer training. F-7
c. Vehicles (as of November 1951)
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Vehicle
guant.lty Condition Primary Use and Comments
there were two armored personnel carrier
drivers of armored personnel carriers
Used for tactical training to
transport scouts to forward
areas and to reconnoiter.) 25X1
M-17 Armored 9-10
Personnel Carrier
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BA 64 Armored Car 8-10 Poor
For tactical training and
reconnaissance.
M-3A-l Scout Car 1 Poor Used for driver and firing
Motorcycle
training; mounted a .50
caliber Browning HMO.F-
Poor Used during maneuvers and
training. Otherwise kept
on blocks.
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Vehicle uantit Condition PrimalZ Use and Comments
Studebaker Mobile 1 Fair Accompanied other vehicles in
Repair Unit Truck convoy and repaired them in
case of minor breakdowns.
the repair 25X1
unit mounts on a chassis
was manufactured in Germany.
Ford Cargo Truck, 1 Poor Used to haul food supplies to
size unknown the officers'mess; not modified.
2 Annexes:
A. Actual Strength and,Estimated Organization of the 10th Sep. Od. Bn.,
Potsdam
B. Actual Strength and Organization of the Recon. Co., 24th Stec z . Regt. ,
7th Mecz. Div., Furstenwalde-Ketschendorf (N 52-22, B 14-04)
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Actual StranRth And 8atimate J,, ~anizat3.on of the :Loth,Sep. Cd. B. ;; Potsdam (522
0th yep
Gd B
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Pvt'$ AUIIG 1 2 g?$
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Actva]. Strength and ~hr~t isation or the Beecn. Ow- 24th Yeas, Bogt _,. 7th Yetis, Dim
etenrr e. ~etachendor! 5 21.141 E)
moored
Car
mote: She let 88t. of the Reaou. Co. saa alao
Crier Of the Cormm~! stir Sec. She two private
who were in Rscon. Co..Sq. iers also drive" in. the
Coarmicatione Sec.
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