For Bravery,3534952,Private,172nd Guards Rifle Regiment,Catch-Up 1954

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Here is Medal "For Bravery" #3534952.

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Issued to Tursunbaj Halmatov on 15th July 1954 - Over 10 1/2 years after being awarded it.

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Private 3rd Rifle Company 1st Battalion Guards Red Army Soldier Halmatov, Tursunbaj for that, that he during battle from 23rd October 1943 to 30th October 1943 from the moment of breakthrough of the enemy defence went ahead under enemy fire drawing it, during which fighters destroyed by him 3 German Soldiers.
1924 Year Of Birth.Non-Partisan, Uzbek, Called to Workers' And Peasants' Red Army 24th September 1942 Dzhizak Regional Military Commissariat Smarkan Oblast.

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...went ahead under enemy fire drawing it, during which fighters destroyed by him 3 German Soldiers.
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More like "went ahead under enemy fire, making the [other] figters (soldiers) follow him he destroyed 3 German Soldiers."

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That's what happens when I push translating for someone when I'm exhausted. At least we're all pushing in the same direction here and can help each other out. Lots more translation to do and so little sleep predicted... The typewriter that typed these citations seemed a little tired too.

The 57th Guards Rifle Division broke across the the Dniepr on the 23rd October, liberated Solenoe on the 26th and by the 30th they'd advanced right along the Mokraja Sura River (a distance of about 30 miles/50km). All of this is in the Dnepropetovsk Region.