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09-26-2013, 01:00 PM | #1 |
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Red Star,0176760,Submachinegun Company Commander,258th Guards Rifle Regiment
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Order Booklet A 950956 1. Last name: Sorokosabel 2. Name and patrionymic: Leonid Abramovich 3. Rank: Guards Senior Lieutenant 4. Gender: Male 5. Birthyear: 1919 6. Birthplace: Irkutsk Oblast 7. Party membership: candidate member since 1942 8. Education: elementary 9. Nationality: Jewish 10. Time in Red Army: July ‘39 – January ‘44 11. Place of service at awarding: Submachine Company Commander – 258th Guards Rifle Regiment, 56th Guards Rifle Division, 10th Guards Army, Western Front 12. Place of work at present: Styalino, Oblast Administration of Building Material – Senior Goods Manager 13. Home address: Stalino, 8 Line #24 14. Awards: Designation /Serial Number/Awarding Organization Red Star 176.760 56th Guards Rifle Division dated 14.06.43 Victory over Germany Medal Edict dated 9.05.45 Verified by Stalino Municipal Military Commissariat Guards Colonel Gordlenko on 23rd May, 1947 |
09-26-2013, 01:02 PM | #2 |
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Re: Red Star,0176760,Submachinegun Company Commander
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1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Sorkosabel, Leonid Abramovich 2. Rank: Guards Senior Lieutenant 3. Duty position: Independent Submachinegun Company Commander – 258th Guards Rifle Regiment , 56th Guards Rifle Division Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star 4. Born: 1919 5. Nationality: Jewish 6. Party membership: candidate member 7. Previous combat: since 8.3.42 Kalinin Front (185th Rifle Division) 8. Wounds or shell-shock: , 13.6.42 Kalinin Front (?) bullet, 25.11.42 Kalinin Front machinegun (?) chest cavity 9. In Red Army: since April, 1939 10. Inducted by: Dzhambul Regional Military Commissariat, Kazakh ASSR 11. Previous awards: n/a 12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured] Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment At 3:00am on 10.6.43 in a kolkhoznik’s (hut?) near the village of Staraya Sloboda (Gzhats Region, Smolensk Oblast) Comrade Sorokosabel and a group of soldiers forced two German paratroopers to surrender who had just landed with their parachutes. While taking them prisoner, the two attempted armed resistance. Comrade Sorokosabel and Guards Senior Lieutenant Loktionov (?) rushed into the (hut?), disarmed the paratroopers, and led them to the regimental area. Comrade Sorokasabel is deserving of the Order of the Red Star. Signed Commander, 258 Guards Rifle Regiment, Guards Major Sor(?)sov on 11th July, 1943 Endorsed Commander, 56th Guards Rifle Division, Guards Colonel Kolobutin on 12th June, 1943 Last edited by Bill Garvy; 09-26-2013 at 01:15 PM. |
09-26-2013, 01:05 PM | #3 |
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Re: Red Star,0176760,Submachinegun Company Commander
Unit Award Order
SECRET 56th Guards Rifle Division Order 01/N dated 14th June, 1943 On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet USSR, I award the following decorations for exemplary accomplishment of the Command’s missions in the struggle against the German invaders and for having displayed valor and bravery: Order of the Red Star to: 2. Guards Senior Lieutenant Leonid Abramovich Sorokosabel – Submachinegun Company Commander, 258th Guards Rifle Regiment, 56th Guards Rifle Division, 19th Guards Rifle Corps Signed Commander, 56th Guards Rifle Division, Guards Colonel Kolobutin and Chief of Staff Guards Colonel Panishev Four copies compiled by Pospelov Guards Senior Lieutenant Leonid Abramovich Sorokosabel's Order of the Red Star, #176760. . . My thanks to Auke and desantnik for their invaluable assistance! |
09-26-2013, 01:28 PM | #4 |
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Re: Red Star,0176760,Submachinegun Company Commander
I think these paratroops ran into the Collective Farm's woods (as in forest but not as large).
Paratroopers would land by forestry and then hide in it... rather than landing in it (like the Allies accidentally did in Normandy). This is the classic scene in all the war time propaganda films... The enemy floats down and someone is ready and waiting to win the day. Be it the farmer's wife with an axe or the massed power of the Home Guard (or local equivalent). Went the day well?
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09-26-2013, 02:01 PM | #5 |
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Re: Red Star,0176760,Submachinegun Company Commander
They weren't paratroopers, but diversanty (diversionists / saboteurs)...
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09-26-2013, 02:25 PM | #6 |
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Re: Red Star,0176760,Submachinegun Company Commander
A bit more active than "Gummipuppen!".
I wonder what the mission was and if it was planned to be a one way trip....
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10-01-2013, 10:55 AM | #7 |
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Re: Red Star,0176760,Submachinegun Company Commander,258th Guards Rifle Regiment
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1. Last Name, Name, and Patrionymic: Sorokosabel, Leonid Abramovich 2. Born: 1919 3. Nationality: Jewish 4. Knowledge of languages: 5. Birthplace: Irkutsk 6. Social Position: Worker 7. Party Membership: yes 8. Education General: graduated 7th grade Military: Gomel Infantry Academy in 1942 Political: 9. Service in the Old Army: 10. Service in the White Army: 11. POW: 12. Promotion: Lieutenant 1.6.42 Central Asian Military District Senior Lieutenant 42.30.9 22 Army Captain 4.8.43 Western Front 12. Participation in campaigns: VDA (abbreviation for “on active duty”?) – ‘42 13. Other Military Operations: Khalkhin Gol in 1939 14. Wounds or shell-shock: 15. Awards 16. Family status and address: Father – Abram Arapovich, KazSSR, (?) Dzhambul 17. Position before service in the Armed Forces: 18. Service in the Armed Forces: [trans: handwritten “since 1940”] Unit Duty Position Date Orders On record with PCD MPO* Rifle Plt Leader 42.1.6 Central Asia Mil District Same (?) Same 42.15.6 MPO 257RR, 185 RD Same 42.23.6 185 RD 2(?)8 GdsRR, 56GdsRD Company Cdr 42.5.9 185RD Retired according to Kiev Military District Order 0187 dated 8.8.1985 pg. 60, paragraph “b” due to illness since 10.43. On file with the Kalinin Regional Military Commissariat, Stalino. 19. Wounds or Contusions: 20. Reason for release: *Abbreviation for “Peoples Commissariat of Defense Main Personnel Office” |
10-01-2013, 10:56 AM | #8 |
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Re: Red Star,0176760,Submachinegun Company Commander,258th Guards Rifle Regiment
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1. Last Name, Name, and Patrionymic: Sorokosabel, Leonid Abramovich D-540029 2. Birth date and place: 2.02.1919 Irkutsk 3. Nationality: Jewish 4. Knowledge of Foreign Languages: n/a 5. Social position and upbringing: office worker from worker family 6. Party Membership: since 1942 7. Education General: graduated ninth grade in 1935 Military: Gomel Infantry Academy in 1942 Political: n/a 8. Service in combat: Kalinin Front 6.1942-03.1943 and Western Front 5.1943-07.1943 9. Wounds or shell-shock: bullet wound left arm, bullet wound left hip, and bullet wound chest cavity 10. Awards: Red Star and Victory over Germany Medal 11. In captivity or encirclement: n/a 12. On record: 13. On file: Kalinin RMC, Stalin, Kiev Military District 14. Promotions: Gds Senior Lieutenant by 22 Army in ‘42 15. Category: Commander reserve, 1 Category 16. Branch: 17. Health: fit for military service 18. Call-ups: 19. Present employment: Donulemashstroi – goods inspector (?) (?) Industry 20. Family situation: married. Wife – Tamara Matveevna (nee Bulavkina) b. 1925, daughter – Eleonora, b. 1943, 18th Line #24, apt. 4 21. Special remarks: Military ID issued 18.03.49, AM 37278 by Kalinin RMC, Stalino 22. Service in the Armed Forces: Duty Position Unit Order Date 07.1939-10.1941 230 Mountain Rifle Regiment Squad Leader 10.1941-06.1942 Gomel Infantry Academy Cadet 06.1942-09.1942 Company Cdr 258 Rifle Regiment, Kalinin Front 09.1942-1942.12 wounded Medical Point 2294 12.1942-05.1943 Company Commander 258RR, Kalinin Front 03.1943-05.1943 wounded Medical Point 2294 05.1943-07.1943 Company Commander 258RR, Western Front 07.1943-12.1943 wounded Evacuation Hospital 3646 Signed Kalinin RMC Guards Colonel Gavrilenko 23. Released into the reserves: 1 Category with rank of Gds Senior Lieutenant (not released) 24. Retired with rank: 25. Verifications: Submachinegun Company Commander, verification not present in personnel file |
10-01-2013, 10:57 AM | #9 |
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Re: Red Star,0176760,Submachinegun Company Commander,258th Guards Rifle Regiment
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Control Card Issued to Reserve Officer Military ID Sorokosabel, Leonid Abramov, Identification Number: D-450029 Specialty: 0001 Rank: Guards Senior Lieutenant Birth year and place: 1919, Irkutsk [trans: reverse side entries below] Military ID: BV 104420 Issued: 13 September 1967 by the Kalinin Regional Military Commissariat, Donetsk Oblast Home of record: Donetsk Oblast – 14, Prospect of the Fallen Kommunars 63, Apt. 20a Chief of 3rd Section: Major Morozov on 13 September 1967 |
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