Medal "For The Liberation Of Prague".

[CtahhR]

Here is a nice Variation 1.

[travel-north]

Good medal in a good condition. Of course the suspension is not correct, but it doesn't matter much.

[Bill Garvy]

[SIZE="3"]Document for the Medal Liberation of Prague issued to Aleksei Nikitovich Panin November 25th, 1945, 621st _______ _______, Colonel Sukhikh (?), Serial #A052030.

Document for the Medal Liberation of Prague issued to Gavril Yakovlivich Khodeev dated November 1st, 1946, 17th _______ _______, _______ Vonkenshmeyk (?), Serial #A218357.

Document for the Medal Liberation of Prague issued to Guards Sergeant Boris Yevtikhiyevich Dodatko on February 5th, 1946 by the Commander of the 46th Order of the Red Banner, Order of Suvorov, Order of Kutuzov Dniester Vienna Tank Regiment, Guards Colonel and Hero of the Soviet Union (#2629), Andrei Mateevich Kovalev, Serial #A101472.[/SIZE]

[CtahhR]

621-й штурмовой авиационный полк is the 621st.

17th is 17th Artillery Kiev-Zhitomir Order Lenin Red Banner Order Suvurov Breakthrough Division of the 1st Ukrainian Front.

Driver Gavril Hodeev also was awarded with a Red Star.

[Bill Garvy]

Another recent acquisition from our Marketplace, a Liberation of Prague Medal with two piece steel suspension.

[dalcaissian]

This is my Liberation of Prague document. I believe the name is Krachenko Vladimir Konstantinovich? Is this correct? Can anyone help with his rank and unit that issued the document.
Thank you

[Bill Garvy]

Issued to Guards Private Vladimir Konstantinovich Kravchenko, dated August 5th, 1946 by the Commander of the 151st Independent, and I can not make out the rest. It is signed by Lieutenant-Colonel Kuz'menko.

[CtahhR]

That's the 151st Separate Correctional-Reconnaissance Aviation Novgorod Regiment. They sent their planes up to see if artillery fire needed to be adjusted - the same sort of thing balloon observers did but in planes.

The name is a common one but there are no 151st matches on "the site".

[dalcaissian]

Thank you both. I'm encouraged that I'm getting closer to translating names correctly.

[desantnik]

Unusual, "duplicate" document awarded to Guards Sergeant Peter Semenovich Gavaza by the 146 Guards Signals Battalion. Note the amount of attention to replicating the document's size, layout, and even type ink color.

This doc begs the question whether the unit ran out of documents and couldn't just issue another or whether the serial number was so important that even a supply of additional docs couldn't correct the lack of the original.