18th Air Army
In December 1944 the LRA was transferred to the Red Army Air Force and converted into the 18th Air Army(Vozdushnaya Armiya VA).
The composition of 18th Air Army included:
- Headquarters
- 1st Guards Smolensk Long Range Bomber Air Corps
- 2nd Guards Bryansk Long Range Bomber Aviation Corps
- 3rd Guards Stalingrad Long Range Bomber Aviation Corps
- 4th Guards Gomel Long Range Bomber Aviation Corps
- 6th Long Range Aviation Corps
- 19th Long Range Bomber Aviation Corps (until February 1945)
- Four separate bomber aviation divisions
- 62nd Air Division Long Range
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