For Combat Merits,2319744,Driver,115th Separate Auto Company,19th Rifle Division

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Here is the Medal "For Combat Merits" #2319744.

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Awarded to Kirill Andreevich Moskalenko on 24th May 1945.

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1. Family, name, and patronym, Moskalenko, Kirill Andreevich
2. Rank, Private
3. Position, Unit, Driver, 115th Separate Auto-Company, 19th Rifle Voronezh-Shumen Order Suvurov II Class, Order Of The Labour Red Banner Division
Recommendation for the Governmental Award Medal "For Combat Merits".
4. Year of birth, 1915
5. Nationality, Ukrainian
6. Party membership, Non-Partisan
7. Participation In Civil War, Other Military Actions Of Defence Of The USSR And Patriotic War (Where, When) From 23-06-1941 to 09-1941 Southern Front, From 09-1941 to 10-1941 Taken into captivity in Zaporozhie Oblast, From 10-1941 to 05-1944 Enemy Occupied Territory, From 05-1944 to 02-1945 3rd Ukrainian Front, From 02-1945 2nd Ukrainian Front.
8. Has had wounds or shell-shock during the Patriotic War, Wounded 09-1941
9. From which time in the Red Army, From 23-06-1941.
10. To which Regional Military Commissariat called, Privol'noe Regional Military Commissariat, Nikolaev Oblast
11. Has been awarded (for which distinction) Not Awarded.

Comrade Moskalenko, working with an imported auto-machine Ford-6, in a short time mastered its features and at the present time well knows its material parts, caring for her and her contents always in combat preparedness.

Any task of the command is performed assuredly and on time.

Performing tasks to bring up reinforcements to the offensive units in the region of Bratislava, the column of machines was subjected to bombing from enemy aviation.
Quickly orienting himself in the situation Comrade Moskalenko brought out his machine from the zone of fire and delivered reinforcements to the offensive.

Working, mainly, in supplying food, Comrade Moskalenko with tasks always managed with excellence, cases of untimely delivery of cargo by his fault did not have.

Private Moskalenko is worthy of presentation of the the Governmental Award Medal "For Combat Merits".

Commander of the Company Captain
19th May 1945.

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Fascinating. That's no small amount of time as a prisoner.