"Steven’s SU-122 Battery – 3rd Battery of the 1454th..." Topic

… Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment.

"I'm very interested in the fighting around Ponyri front on the northern flank of the Battle of Kursk. As it happens Vasiliy Krysov was at Ponyri. He commanded an SU-122 platoon within the 3rd Battery of the 1454th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment within the 13th Army. I fancied some SU-122s anyway, and reading about Krysov was sufficient excuse, so I purchased 3rd battery in 15mm scale.

Vasiliy Krysov
Krysov commanded various types of vehicle during the war – KV-1S, SU-122, SU-85 and T-34 – and fought at Stalingrad, Kursk and Königsberg. His kill tally at the end of the war was 19 tanks destroyed, including 8 "Tigers" and one "Panther". His vehicle was destroyed two times and he was injured twice. His decorations included the Order of the Patriotic War (both 1st and 2nd degree), three Orders of the Red Star and more than 20 medals, including "For the defence of Stalingrad", "For Military Merit"…"

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Armand

Even more interesting is the 1452d regiment that had a "battalion" of 11 KV-85's, three SU-76's, five KV-1s and six SU-152's – a real nightmare for the quartermaster as well as the Germans!

Agree!

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Armand

Curious thing here is the turret numbering…………. '52' was probably the code number for that unit, with the individual vehicle number following e.g. 2513 would be tank number thirteen, however there were 24 guns in an artillery regiment, but here we see gun/tank number 25……

There was no uniform vehicle numbering scheme. Most often the numbering was developed within the regiment or corps.

Sometimes it was sequential numbering of vehicles. Sometimes it was sub-unit and vehicle in sequence. Sometimes it was some other scheme developed by that particular unit.

So it could just as easily be:
52nd regiment
2nd company, 2nd battery, or even 2nd battalion
5th vehicle

-Mark
(aka: Mk 1)

Thanks for your guidance my friend!.

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Armand