04-30-2013, 06:18 PM
[SIZE="3"]Award Sheet
1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Chkhartashvili, Samson Germanovich
2. Rank: Master Sergeant
3. Duty position: Supply Platoon Leader – 3rd Battalion, 1279th Rifle Regiment, 389th Berdich Rifle Division
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1914
5. Nationality: Georgian
6. Party membership: since 1943
7. Previous combat: Transcaucasus Front 8.1942, Northern Caucasus Front 2.1943, and 1 Ukrainian Front since 11.1943
8. Wounds or shell-shock: wounded 12.41, 07.42, and 08.43
9. In Red Army: since 08.1941
10. Inducted by: Makharadze Regional Military Commissariat, GSSR
11. Previous awards: Combat Service Medal by 1279th Rifle Regiment dated 4.2.44
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
He displayed bravery and valor during offensive fighting to penetrate the heavily defended German line near Bozhuv-Gorokhu beginning 13.07.44. During the battalion’s entire offensive Comrade Chakhardashvili’s platoon followed the battalion’s supply of hot food and ammunition, disregarding the impact of enemy fire. On 19.07.44 when Comrade Chakhardashvili received information that the battalion had exhausted its ammunition, he personally forced a fording site on the Western Bug river under heavy enemy fire and delivered ammunition to the far shore of the river.
For selfless duty, for the supply of the battalion with ammunition and food, and for displayed bravery and valor in offensive fighting against the German invaders, he is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.
Signed Regimental Commander Lieutenant Colonel Zhulikhin and Chief of Staff Akimov on 31st July, 1944
Endorsed Commander, 389th Berdichev Rifle Division, Colonel Kolobov on 18 (?)
Awarded the Order of the Red Star by 389th Berdichev Rifle Division 055/N dated 12.8.44 and compiled by Chief of Personnel Administrative Service Captain Mamonov on 12th August, 1944
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1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Chkhartashvili, Samson Germanovich
2. Rank: Master Sergeant
3. Duty position: Supply Platoon Leader – 3rd Battalion, 1279th Rifle Regiment, 389th Berdich Rifle Division
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1914
5. Nationality: Georgian
6. Party membership: since 1943
7. Previous combat: Transcaucasus Front 8.1942, Northern Caucasus Front 2.1943, and 1 Ukrainian Front since 11.1943
8. Wounds or shell-shock: wounded 12.41, 07.42, and 08.43
9. In Red Army: since 08.1941
10. Inducted by: Makharadze Regional Military Commissariat, GSSR
11. Previous awards: Combat Service Medal by 1279th Rifle Regiment dated 4.2.44
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
He displayed bravery and valor during offensive fighting to penetrate the heavily defended German line near Bozhuv-Gorokhu beginning 13.07.44. During the battalion’s entire offensive Comrade Chakhardashvili’s platoon followed the battalion’s supply of hot food and ammunition, disregarding the impact of enemy fire. On 19.07.44 when Comrade Chakhardashvili received information that the battalion had exhausted its ammunition, he personally forced a fording site on the Western Bug river under heavy enemy fire and delivered ammunition to the far shore of the river.
For selfless duty, for the supply of the battalion with ammunition and food, and for displayed bravery and valor in offensive fighting against the German invaders, he is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.
Signed Regimental Commander Lieutenant Colonel Zhulikhin and Chief of Staff Akimov on 31st July, 1944
Endorsed Commander, 389th Berdichev Rifle Division, Colonel Kolobov on 18 (?)
Awarded the Order of the Red Star by 389th Berdichev Rifle Division 055/N dated 12.8.44 and compiled by Chief of Personnel Administrative Service Captain Mamonov on 12th August, 1944
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