Penalty Company Inventory

"TO&E #04/395

Independent penalty company of the active army

1. Organization
1. Command
2. Three rifle platoons
3. 82 mm mortar platoon
4. Medical unit
5. Quartermaster unit
2. Personnel
1. Officers: 8 permanent, 0 temporary
2. Sergeants: 3 permanent, 31 temporary
3. Privates: 1 permanent, 110 temporary
4. Total: 12 permanent, 141 temporary
3. Horses
1. Draft horses: 6
4. Materiel:
1. 82 mm mortars: 2
2. DP handheld machineguns: 12
3. Submachineguns: 49
4. Rifles and carbines: 82
5. Transport:
1. One-horse carts: 2
2. Two-horse carts: 1
3. Cavalry type field kitchen: 1

Position or item	Rank	Amount		Specialty code	Salary	Weapon
		Perm	Temp
Command
Company commander	Captain	1		1	1100	p b k
Propagandist	Sr. Lieutenant	1		1	900	p k
Quartermaster/accountant	Intendant Lieutenant	1		6	750	p
Total		3
Three rifle platoons
Platoon commander	Sr. Lieutenant	1		1	800	pp b k
Assistant platoon commander			1			pp k
Signals			1			pp k
Sniper			2			sk #1
Squad commander			4			pp k
Deputy squad commander/MG gunner			4
MG assistant			4			krn #1
Rifleman			4			8 pp, 16 krn #1
DP						4
Total		1	40
Total in all platoons		3	120
82 mm mortar platoon
Platoon commander	Lieutenant	1		2a	800	pp b k
Squad commander			2			pp k
Deputy squad commander/ gunner			2			p
Mortar crewmen			8			kr #2
82 mm mortar						2
One-horse carts for mortars						2
Total		1	14
Medical unit
Field doctor	Medical Lieutenant	1		55	750	p
Nurse			4
Total		1	4
Quartermaster Unit
Unit commander, also company Starshina	Starshina	1		1		pp k
Armourer and scribe	Admin Sr. Sergeant	1		128		v #2
Senior cook	Admin Sr. Sergeant	1		124		v #2
Cook	Red Armyman	1		124		v #2
Armourer			1			v #2
Coachman			2			v #2
Utility cart						2
Cavalry type field kitchen						2
Total		4	3			4
Total in company		12	131			6 carts

October 2nd, 1944"

Via Valeriy Lisyutin

As you can see from the list of weapons used by the company, it was hardly "the one with the rifle shoots, the one without the rifle follows". However, the weapon types are a bit hard to decode, since not all of them are accounted for in the initial totals. PP is obviously submachineguns, p are pistols, sk are sniper rifles, v are regular rifles, kr are carbines. I don't know what #1 and #2 stand for (possibly variants of the carbine, but it's not clear why that would matter to anyone), or what k and b are. Valeriy had a theory that b is binoculars, and k is perhaps a map.