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The 44 Non-Soviet Heroes Of The Soviet Union. - Taz - 03-07-2004
Christophe Wrote:Marc,
Excellent clue !!
In fact Roland de la Poype has founded the Antibes Marineland in 1970. He is also supposed having "designed" the Citroën Mehari concept, and other daylife objects...
Ch.
Yes great Tip Marc,
Rolands been quite an active guy hasn't he!
Does anyone from France fancy ringing up Antibes Marineland and asking if they could have a look at the award number for us.
Oh, BTW the guy I was speaking to at the Stasi- Museum said they have the original Uniform from Mielke but all the awards shown on it are replicas and that they do not have any award Numbers. :( And I keep ringing the other number the guy gave me but he never seems to be at home and there is no answering machine.
I'm still going to keep trying though!
Eddie
The 44 Non-Soviet Heroes Of The Soviet Union. - Nota Bene - 03-07-2004
Eddie,
Did they give you at least a hint of where the actual Mielke's awards are? They should be somewhere.
Alexei
The 44 Non-Soviet Heroes Of The Soviet Union. - Taz - 03-07-2004
Nota Bene Wrote:Eddie,
Did they give you at least a hint of where the actual Mielke's awards are? They should be somewhere.
Alexei
Alexei,
Yes, Hr Neide from the Museum said that Erich Mielkes relatives still have them in their possession and that is when he gave me this other phone number.
Maybe he is in someway related to him or his family because he was very certain that he would be able to help. It's a pity that I haven't been able to reach him yet.
Eddie.
The 44 Non-Soviet Heroes Of The Soviet Union. - Nota Bene - 03-10-2004
Eddie,
Please-please continue trying.
I am still seraching for information about Vajda, and I found a brief mention about him in Moskalenko's memoires - in book 2 he says that Stefan Vajda (yeap, Stefan, or Stephan, I guess) has destroyed his 21st enemy tank just before he was killed. According to Moskalenko, Vajda had served in the 1st Armored Brigade of the 1st Czech Army Corps under the command of Vladimir Janko. You can find a link to the book here:
http://militera.lib.ru/memo/russian/moskalenko-2/17.html
Alexei
The 44 Non-Soviet Heroes Of The Soviet Union. - Taz - 03-14-2004
Captain Vladislav W Wysotsky
He was the 3rd Battalion Commander of the Kościusz - Division.
Captain Vladislav W Wysotsky was killed whilst leading an Infantry Assaut during the battle for Orscha near Lenino in the Vitebsk-Orscha-Mogilev
area on 12.10.1943.
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Capt, Julius Hiobner
Early Years Before World War II
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A Polish Jew, Juluisz Samsonovich Hibner was born in 1912 in Grzymalow Tarnopolski, Poland, and along with the general education in a Polish Gymnasium, his parents gave him a traditional Jewish education. Upon graduation from Gymnasium, he entered the Lvov Polytechnical Institute, but he was expelled for activity in the Communist movement.
During the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), he went to Spain where he joined the International Dombrowski Brigade which fought with the Republican Army against the troops of General Franco. After the defeat of the Republic in Spain, he was interred by the French authorities and interned with other foreign soldiers who had fought in Spain - first in France, then in Algiers, and he succeeded in escaping from the camp and made his way to the Soviet Union.
World War II
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In May 1943, the Union of Polish Patriots-emerges first in Poland then in the USSR, they undertook with the aid of the Soviet Union, the formation of the Tadeusz Kosciuszko 1st Polish Division, under the command of General Z. Berling.
Hibner joined this division on Aug.15, 1943 and was appointed deputy commander of the first infantry regiment, and the combat training of the division was completed at the end of August.
Leading the division into battle, the command assigned it the task of breaking through the German defense in the Sysoyevo-Lenino region on the Byelorussian border, commanded by Captain Hibner, the 1st regiment launched an offensive on October 12, 1943, fighting their way across the Mereya River and occupying the enemy's first trench, and then the village of Tregubovo.
German fire rained down on one of the battalion's regiments causing considerable losses, and forcing them to his the dirt. Captain Hibner was the first to rise from the ground and rally his forces behind him. This surprise attack culminated with bayonet combat, and driving the Germans from the positions they had occupied. During the capture of Tregubovo, Capt. Hibner was seriously wounded in both legs, but refused to leave the battlefield, and continued to direct the attack until its completion.
Receiving the Award
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The Soviet government awarded honors and medals for courage and heroism to 243 officers and soldiers of the Kosciuszko First Infantry Division, and by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 11, 1943, three soldiers were awarded the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union." One of them was Captain Juliusz Samsonovich Hibner.
After the war, having reached the rank of Brigadier General, he retired and settled in Warsaw.
Please note the Thread "Results to date" is continuously being Edited/Updated.
But does not show as a New Post ;)
Eddie.
The 44 Non-Soviet Heroes Of The Soviet Union. - Al-muell - 03-19-2004
Taz Wrote:Guys,the last part is technical and is too much for my dictionary :( , but I doubt it helps with the research. Generaly it says obout the repair of the track and says something obout changing weels - one was of different type than another - so it's about the tank, not what Vajda himself.
Dňa 11.5.1945 boli totiž v Ostrave, v Komenského sadech, uložené ostatky (tzv. druhý pohreb) kpt. Stepana Vajdu - povýšeného na kpt. a vyznamenaného Zlatou hviezdou hrdinu ZSSR in memoriam. Tank
T 34/85 ŽIŽKA išiel v smútočnom sprievode a za vežou bola na tanku vezená rakva s ostatkami.
Až po tomto dátume dostal tank na zadný štít veže dva nápisy :
OSTRAVA 1945 a pod tým PRAHA 1945.
(ppor. Stepan Vajda padol 6.4.1945 pred 19-tou hodinou pri obrane predmostia pri mestečku Tworków. Odstrelovač ho trafil do hlavy, keď ju vysunul nad poklop veže z dôvodu prieskumu pred ústupom)
Analogicky sa dá predpokladať, že pri oprave prevodovky po zásahu bolo nutné opraviť alebo vymeniť aj pojazdové kolesá tanku. Tak sa stalo, že na ľavej strane boli štyri typy pojazdových kolies. Prvé je lisované, plné, s hladkou pryžovou obručou. Druhé koleso bolo liate, "paprskové" s vrúbkovanou pryžovou obručou. Tretie a piate koleso bolo liate, "paprskové" s hladkou pryžovou bandážou. Štvrté koleso bolo tak isto liate, "paprskové" s bandážou po obvode perforovanou kruhovými otvormi. Ich význam som doteraz nepochopil.
Eddie.
You are right thjat that "Z'IZ'KA" is a tank name, But I wander if it's just a female name oer does it have some special meaning.
I still have no idea what "Prieskum"is.
And that #%^**^ Odstrelovach may as well mean something that was shot off or a bullet or a scoundrel(? it says it's some negative word to call someone not liked/not honest)... :mad:
The 44 Non-Soviet Heroes Of The Soviet Union. - Taz - 03-19-2004
Al-muell Wrote:You are right thjat that "Z'IZ'KA" is a tank name, But I wander if it's just a female name oer does it have some special meaning.-------------------------------------------------------------------------
The military mastermind, Jan Zizka.
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Jan Zizka, born in 1370, was the commander of the Bohemian military and the head of the anti Hussite forces during the anti-crusades of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund. Zizka served under numerous lords before the uprise of the Hussite Wars. In 1410, he fought on the Polish side in the battle of Tannenburg and was on the winning side, as evidenced by the defeat of the Teutonic Knights there. It wasn’t until during the Hussite Wars until he truly got the opportunity to hone his tactical genius.
Even though he’s not one of the most popular of historical commanders, he is definitely one of the greatest military innovators of all time. Peasants and townspeople, very inexperienced in arms, comprised the brunt of his army. Zizka didn’t dwell on trying to force them to conform to conventional armament and tactics of that time. Instead, he let them make use of crude weapons such as iron-tipped flails and armored farm wagons, which were mounted with small howitzer type cannons. When used for offense, his armored wagons broke through enemy lines with the greatest of ease. The wagons were constantly firing as they advanced, enabling the soldiers to slice through superior forces as only a wolverine could do. The wagons were arranged into an inpenetratable barrier surrounding the foot soldiers when used for defense. They were also used to transport his men. This illustrates how much Zizka played in the anticipation of the principles of modern tank warfare.
Eddie.
The 44 Non-Soviet Heroes Of The Soviet Union. - Nota Bene - 03-20-2004
Guys,
They were Heroes of the Russian Federation and hence are outside the scope of this research, besides they had died as Russian citizens, but we could still mention them. What do you think?
Alexei
The 44 Non-Soviet Heroes Of The Soviet Union. - Taz - 03-20-2004
Nota Bene Wrote:Guys,
They were Heroes of the Russian Federation and hence are outside the scope of this research, besides they had died as Russian citizens, but we could still mention them. What do you think?
Alexei
Alexei,
Why not, here is a bit of info on the couple.
The two personalities on the stamps are Morris and Leontina Theresa Cohen. They were assistants to the most famous Soviet spy ever operating in the USA - William Fisher, aka Rudolf Abel, in 1946-1950, and later worked with another legendary spy Konon Molody, aka Gordon Longsdale, in London, where they managed to get much highly valuable information on nuclear arms and missiles.
The lady and gentlemen have been awarded «Hero of Russian Federation» titles lately, for their 1940-1950s' efforts in arming the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons.
Shortly after the death in 1995 of the best-known American illegal, Morris Cohen, President Yeltsin conferred on him the posthumous title of "Hero of the Russian Federation".
The Sword and the Shield: And the Secret History of the KGB mentions his work as a Soviet spy.
I wonder why they were not awarded the HSU? Because of secrecy maybe?
Eddie.
The 44 Non-Soviet Heroes Of The Soviet Union. - Taz - 04-02-2004
02.04.2004 ( New photo of Brig. Gen Jean-loup Chrétien #37 from Art )
05.04.2004 ( New photo of Antonín Sochor #7 from Dietrich )
11.04.2004 ( Unit Details of Capt. Ruben Ruis Ibarruri #16 found by Eddie )
22.05.2004 ( Photo of Stepan Vajda #15 from Eddie)
30.05.2004 ( Info on Stěpan Vajda #15 found collective)
05.06.2004 ( HSU s/n from Lt. Marcel Lefèvre #14 from Christophe)
12.06.2004 ( New photo of Jacques Andre #13 from Christophe)
09.08.2004 ( s/n of the HSU. #42. Erich Mielke confirmed as 11565 by Dietrich)
14.09.2008 ( Tesařík and Svoboda updated)
Eddie.