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For Combat Merits,2099030,Machine Gun Ammunition Bearer,1118th Rifle Regiment - Bill Garvy - 06-24-2015
Order Book (#464074) issued to Mikhail Vasilyevich Chornovol dated November 14th, 1946 for a Combat Service Medal, #2099030, missing, October, 1944.
For Combat Merits,2099030,Machine Gun Ammunition Bearer,1118th Rifle Regiment - Bill Garvy - 06-24-2015
[SIZE="3"]1st Ukrainian Front Secret
Prikaz
1118th Rifle Regiment, 333rd Rifle Sinel'nikovskoy Order of the Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Division
13th September, 1944 No. 091/H Active Army
On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the SSR we award
Medal “For Combat Service”
13. Ammunition Bearer (Porter?), 1st Machinegun Company, Chernovol, Mikhail Vasilyevich for that in the village of Ermoclia (Moldova) during a counter-attack with his own weapon destroyed 3 German soldiers.
Born 1925, not a party member, Ukrainian, drafted into the Red Army: Nikolaevskim Regional Military Commissariat, Nikolaevskoy Oblast.
Home address: (intentionally obscured)
Commander 1118th Rifle Regiment
Colonel Gubanov
Printed 3 copies
333rd Rifle Division
Administrator-Headquarters
12th, September, 1944
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For Combat Merits,2099030,Machine Gun Ammunition Bearer,1118th Rifle Regiment - Tommy - 06-24-2015
Ammunition bearer, 1st machine gun company, private xxx i think the first line would be.
The first word I'm not too sure about is подносчика.... the ammunition bearer part. It seems to literally mean "porter" so i would take that as being transporting ammo around. Could be wrong though! ...usually am :)
For Combat Merits,2099030,Machine Gun Ammunition Bearer,1118th Rifle Regiment - CtahhR - 06-24-2015
He's a "Number 3". #1 being the trigger man, #2 being the loader and #3 being "Johnny on-the-spot" with the ammo. When not playing the role of "Johnny" he's free to take some pot shots with his own rifle (or whatever else he's issued). The usual machinegun troika.
In a counter-attack their positions will have been fixed so he wouldn't have been portering crates of cartridges but free to take 3 Germans out.
For Combat Merits,2099030,Machine Gun Ammunition Bearer,1118th Rifle Regiment - Bill Garvy - 06-24-2015
Thank you, gentlemen, I have made the requisite edits. . .