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Old 09-03-2017, 01:30 PM   #1
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Red Star,2083726,Katjusha Battery Commander,18th Guards Mortar Brigade,Breslau/Oder

Here is Red Star #2083726.
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Re: Red Star,2083726,Katjusha Battery Commander,18th Guards Mortar Brigade,Oder

1. Family, Litkovskij
2. Name, Grigorij
Patronym, Maksimovich
3. Nationality, Ukrainian
4. Sex, Male
5. Year Of Birth, 1911
6. Place Of Birth, UkSSR, Kiev Oblast, Kachanlyk Region, Gorobievka
7. Party Membership, Non-Partisan
8. Education, None
9. Military Rank, Senior Lieutenant In Reserve
10. From Which Year In The Soviet Army, From 10-1933 to 11-1945
11. Place of work, service and occupied position at the moment of award, Head of Military-Technical Supply, 116th Howitzer Artillery Brigade, Trans-Carpathian Military Okrug
12. Place of work, service and position at the current time, Pensioner of the Ministry Of Defence USSR
13. Current address of awarded, UkSSR, Kachanlyk Region, Rzhischev, Komsomol Street 46

Order Of The Red Star 2083726 12-05-1945
Order Of The Patriotic War I 249006 28-05-1945
Medal "For Combat Merits" 06-05-1946
26th October 1965
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Re: Red Star,2083726,Katjusha Battery Commander,18th Guards Mortar Brigade,Oder

Family, Name, Patronym. Litkovskij, Grigorij Maksimovich
Rank. Guards Senior Lieutenant
Position and unit. Commander of a battery, 2nd Section, 18th Guards Mortar L'vov Order Kutuzov Brigade
Presented For Order "Red Star"
1. Year of birth. 1911
2. Nationality. Russian
3. From which time in Red Army. From November 1933
4. Party Membership. Member VKP/b/ from 1941
5. Participant in war - Kalinin from 06-1941 to 03-1942, 1st Ukrainian Front from 07-1944
6. Has been Wounded or contused One contusion and one heavy wound on the Kalinin Front 22-03-1942
7. Has been awarded (for which distinction) - Not Awarded
8. Which Regional Military Commissariat called Genichesk Regional Military Commissariat, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast

Litovskij, working as commander of a battery, showed courage and valour in the struggle with German Occupiers.
25th March 1945 in Breslau it was necessary to directly fire a volley of M-31 Rocket Action Mortars to Block 629.
Litovskij, risking his life, crawled along the ruins of buildings, to 20 metres of the enemy chose a site for the mortars. The volley was prepared in a minimal time and produced them on the specified place in the quarter. Whereby the front wall of the building and and floors collapsed, destroying up to 5 enemy fire points.
While expanding the bridgehead from the river Oder the battery of Litkovskij gave 6 volleys, destroying 20 fire points and up to a company of infantry and in the town of Breslau destroyed two blocks.
The Battery of Litovskij is locked together and able to perform gainful combat tasks.
Himself personally Comrade Litkovskij has been located at the front for 3.5 years. In battle with German Occupiers has been heavily wounded in the head and has been two times contused.
After being hospitalised healed and by his own terms arrived back at the front.
For the 3.5 years stay at the front and personal valour Litkovskij is meriting a high Governmental award.

Worthy of the Governmental award - Order "Red Star"
Commander of the section Guards Senior Lieutenant Tururunov
26th March 1945
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Re: Red Star,2083726,Katjusha Battery Commander,18th Guards Mortar Brigade,Oder

I believe this is a rare example of a case of having a photograph of the action in a citation. I believe this photograph was taken from inside one of the buildings to which Litkovskij's battery knocked the walls down.

The infantry cleaning up after the M-31s had knocked out the fire points and opened up the walls.
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Re: Red Star,2083726,Katjusha Battery Commander,18th Guards Mortar Brigade,Breslau/Od

Did You manage to get the map that has Breslau block numbers marked?
I am asking because I have been trying to identify a location in the city also described by block number.

Also, if You knoiw the direct location, I can try to take o photograph of how it looks now.
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I got this image from an article on a Polish (I think) website (written in Russian) about one unit's push through Breslau. It linked this picture to the capture of Blocks 628 and 629. I wouldn't be surprised if the two blocks his unit destroyed were 628 and 629 as 629 was explicitly named.

It would be nice to find original maps with locations on, maybe there's one on one of the RF MOD sites. I've just not got round to looking yet - overwhelmed!

This machine might be one of his.....
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Re: Red Star,2083726,Katjusha Battery Commander,18th Guards Mortar Brigade,Breslau/Od

I hope this extract of a beast of a map helps..... I have the whole of Breslau but it's a big file!
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Re: Red Star,2083726,Katjusha Battery Commander,18th Guards Mortar Brigade,Breslau/Od

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