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On Black Sea Fleet, 2nd Torpedo Cutter Brigade, 3rd Torpedo Cutter Battalion, Motor Gunboat #86 Motor Operator Senior Red Seaman Vasilii Mitrofanovich Mileiko for the Order of the Red Star
1. Born: 1919
2. Nationality: Ukrainian
3. Social standing: worker
4. Party membership: yes
5. In Red Army or Navy: since 1940
6. In Civil War: n/a
7. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
8. Previous award recommendations:
9. Previous awards: Bravery Medal, Combat Service Medal, Defense of Odessa Medal
10. Service in the White or other bourgeois armies or encirclement: n/a
11. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
Senior Red Seaman V.M. Mileiko has been an active participant in many combat operations conducted on torpedo cutters since the very beginning of the Patriotic War.
Comrade Mileiko proved himself as valorous and brave working his machinegun non-stop in battles near Odessa against numerically superior enemy forces. As a result of one engagement an enemy escort vessel was damaged and the others fled. In fighting for Sevastopol, the most important base of the Black Sea Fleet, against an enemy several times numerically superior (3 versus 15) Comrade Mileiko poured continuous machinegun fire against enemy craft. In one engagement a high-speed landing barge and escort ship were destroyed and an escort ship damaged. In subsequent operations he supported torpedo cutters in the attack – Senior Red Seaman Mileiko repelled a ship, attracting fire to himself thus enabling a torpedo cutter to land a long-range torpedo against enemy targets. Senior Red Seaman Mileiko is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.
Signed Commander, Black Sea Fleet, 2nd Torpedo Cutter Brigade, 1st Torpedo
Cutter Battalion, Captain 3rd Class Mestnikov
Endorsed Commander, 2nd Torpedo Cutter Brigade, Captain (?) class V. Protsenko on 15.05.1944
Awarded the Order of the Red Star by Black Sea Fleet 2nd Novorossiisk Torpedo Cutter Brigade, Order #8 dated (?)1944, signed Brigade Chief of Staff Captain 3rd Rank B. Bobynin on 15.05.1944
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On Black Sea Fleet, 2nd Torpedo Cutter Brigade, 3rd Torpedo Cutter Battalion, Motor Gunboat #86 Motor Operator Senior Red Seaman Vasilii Mitrofanovich Mileiko for the Order of the Red Star
1. Born: 1919
2. Nationality: Ukrainian
3. Social standing: worker
4. Party membership: yes
5. In Red Army or Navy: since 1940
6. In Civil War: n/a
7. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
8. Previous award recommendations:
9. Previous awards: Bravery Medal, Combat Service Medal, Defense of Odessa Medal
10. Service in the White or other bourgeois armies or encirclement: n/a
11. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
Senior Red Seaman V.M. Mileiko has been an active participant in many combat operations conducted on torpedo cutters since the very beginning of the Patriotic War.
Comrade Mileiko proved himself as valorous and brave working his machinegun non-stop in battles near Odessa against numerically superior enemy forces. As a result of one engagement an enemy escort vessel was damaged and the others fled. In fighting for Sevastopol, the most important base of the Black Sea Fleet, against an enemy several times numerically superior (3 versus 15) Comrade Mileiko poured continuous machinegun fire against enemy craft. In one engagement a high-speed landing barge and escort ship were destroyed and an escort ship damaged. In subsequent operations he supported torpedo cutters in the attack – Senior Red Seaman Mileiko repelled a ship, attracting fire to himself thus enabling a torpedo cutter to land a long-range torpedo against enemy targets. Senior Red Seaman Mileiko is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.
Signed Commander, Black Sea Fleet, 2nd Torpedo Cutter Brigade, 1st Torpedo
Cutter Battalion, Captain 3rd Class Mestnikov
Endorsed Commander, 2nd Torpedo Cutter Brigade, Captain (?) class V. Protsenko on 15.05.1944
Awarded the Order of the Red Star by Black Sea Fleet 2nd Novorossiisk Torpedo Cutter Brigade, Order #8 dated (?)1944, signed Brigade Chief of Staff Captain 3rd Rank B. Bobynin on 15.05.1944
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