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"Gratitude" Certificates. - EricFG - 02-01-2010
The third. I haven't translated this yet but the seller gave me this list of all the documents:
Battle at the City of Shopron (Hungary)
Battle for Galats (Romania)
"Great Budapest Battle" - SW sector
"Great Budapest Battle" - general destruction of the enemy
Battle for the Dunai - destruction tank armies
Battle for the Dunai - taking of some cities
Battle for Austria
The cover: УЧАСТНИКУ БОЕВ ЗА БРАИЛОВ Румыния - To the PARTICIPANT of FIGHTS FOR Brailov, Romania (which is now in Ukraine, I believe)
"Gratitude" Certificates. - EricFG - 02-01-2010
The fourth. Dated the day before Christmas 1944....
Hard to believe this got only one bid on eBay. I saw it listed initially and tossed in a very low minimum bid just to keep track of it figuring 10 GPW documents would go for some descent dough.
The cover: I can't translate it because of the lower case. All I can make out is Budapest.
Inside:
За отличные боевые действия по прорыву сильно укрепленной обороны противника юго-западнее Будапешта и за овладение городами Секешфехервар и гвардии
For excellent operations on breaking of strongly strengthened defence of the opponent Southwest (of?) Budapest and for mastering by the cities of Szekesfehervar and guards
"Gratitude" Certificates. - EricFG - 02-01-2010
And the fifth.
It says on the cover:
"УЧАСТНИКУ ВЕЛИКОЙ БУАДПЕШТСКОЙ БИТВЫ" - TO THE PARTICIPANT OF GREAT BUADPESHTSKY FIGHT
"Gratitude" Certificates. - EricFG - 02-01-2010
The sixth.
For the battle on the Дунаем (Дунай) (Danube)
"Gratitude" Certificates. - EricFG - 02-01-2010
Lucky number seven. Our hero Chinskiy has made it seven months on the front lines without becoming a terminal casualty. Good luck indeed.
The cover: УЧАСТНИКУ БИТВЫ ЗА ДУНАЕМ - TO THE PARTICIPANT OF FIGHT BEYOND DANUBE
"Gratitude" Certificates. - EricFG - 02-01-2010
Eight. Hungary, April Fool's Day, 1945.
The cover: УЧАСТНИКУ БОЕВ ЗА ГОРОД ШОПРОН Венгрия - To the PARTICIPANT of FIGHTS FOR the City of Sopron Hungary.
Sopron is in the extreme North-West corner area of Hungary, on the border with Austria.
Franz Liszt and Béla Bartók were from Sopron.
"Gratitude" Certificates. - EricFG - 02-02-2010
Number nine. Two days later. The cover: УЧАСТНИКУ БОЕВ В АВСТРИИ - TO THE PARTICIPANT OF FIGHTS IN AUSTRIA.
Inside specifics:
За отличные боевые действия по овладению на территории Австрии промышленным городом и крупным железнодорожным узлом Винер Нойштадт и городами Эйзенштадт, Неункирхен, Глоггснит-важными опорными пунктами немцев на подступах к вене-гвардии
For excellent operations on mastering in territory of Austria an industrial city both a large railway junction Wiener Nojshtadt and the cities of Eisenstadt, Neunkirchen, and Gloggnitz-important strong points of Germans on the approches to Vienna guards
These nine documents came with a Bulgarian government issued award booklet (dated in '53 I think (posted in the Bulgarian section earlier today)) for their GPW '44/'45 medal again issued to Chinskiy.
Enjoy.
"Gratitude" Certificates. - Komandir RKKA - 02-02-2010
The man had an interesting father's name - АВТОНОМОВИЧ.
It means his fathers name was АВТОНОМ - AUTONOMOUS.
"Gratitude" Certificates. - desantnik - 02-02-2010
Eric, beautiful set. I'm out the door, but #8 is for "the approaches to Vienna".
"Gratitude" Certificates. - UQWozza - 02-02-2010
Nice addition to the collection Eric :thumbsup