08-31-2012, 01:30 PM
Medal for Combat Merit:
Quote:Award sheet
[Stamp: Medal for Combat Merit by Order of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet nr. 51 of February 28, 1946]
For (position and name of the unit, formation or institution): Petty Officer Third Class Grigory Klementyevich Slipchenkoiver, Diver 2nd Class in the 143rd Underwater Engineering Work Detachment, Salvage Department, Red Banner Baltic Fleet
Name of the award: Medal of Nakhimov
1. Year of birth: 1922
2. Nationality: Ukrainian
3. Social situation: Worker
4. Party membership and date: Candidate member of the Communist Party since 1944
5. Since when in the Red Army or Navy: Since 1941
6. Participation in the Civil War: No
7. Wounds and contusions: No
8. Earlier recommendations for awards, when and for what: No
9. Which commendations and awards received and for what: Medal for the Victory over Germany and Medal of Ushakov by Order of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet nr. 101 of May 28, 1945
10. Service in the White Army or other bourgeois armies and time spent in captivity: No, no
11. Permanent address: City of Riga
Short, concrete description of his combat feat or merits:
Petty Officer Third Class Grigory Klementyevich Slipchenko has been serving with the 143rd Underwater Engineering Work Detachment, Salvage Department, Red Banner Baltic Fleet since January 1945 and as _________ Seaman he worked as the head of a diving station.
For his exemplary duties and leadership of his station he was subsequently promoted to Petty Officer Third Class.
In the course of the year, Slipchenko’s diving station significantly exceeded the plans and tasks set by the command. A disciplined and demanding commander, comrade Slipchenko skillfully organized the duties of his subordinates, and his station has been occupying one of the first places among the detachment’s diving stations.
Together with a few others, his diving station stood the Stakhanov Watch in honor of the elections of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and significantly exceeded the tasks set by the command.
Comrade Slipchenko deserves the Medal of Nakhimov.
Commander of the 143rd Underwater Engineering Work Detachment, Salvage Department, Red Banner Baltic Fleet
Major of the Engineering Service [signed] /Kazin/
February 12, 1946
