06-21-2013, 01:55 AM
[SIZE="3"]Award Sheet
1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Krasnobai, Ivan Arkhipovich
2. Rank: Guards Private
3. Duty position: Loader – 1st Battery, 299th Guards Tarnopol Orders of Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Mortar Regiment, 10th Guards Ural-Lvov Volunteer Tank Corps
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1909
5. Nationality: Ukrainian
6. In Red Army: since March 1943
7. Party membership: yes
8. Previous combat: Bryansk Front beginning 20.07.43 and 1st Ukrainian Front since 19.01.44
9. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
10. Prior awards: Bravery Medal 15th August, 1944
11. Inducted by: Molotov Regional Military Commissariat
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
From 24th-25th Apri,l 1945 northeast of the village of Gutengoru*, Comrade Krasnobai provided accurate and rapid loading of his mortar, as a result of his mortar’s fire, two enemy ammunition stores, an enemy kitchen vehicle, and as much as a platoon of enemy were destroyed, thus weakening the enemy on the far shore and hindering the advance of our units.
While under heavy enemy cannon and machinegun fire Comrade Krasnobai delivered mortar rounds, thus helping to deliver further mortar rounds upon the enemy.
On 29th April, 1945 on Vanze* island the enemy conducted two counterattacks and Comrade Krasnobai employed his skill to accurately and quickly load the mortar and suppressed two enemy machinegun positions and decimated as much as a platoon of submachinegunners.
On 2nd May, 1945 near the village of Stuken while destroying an enemy pocket, Comrade Krasnobai employed his assigned weapon to kill four German soldiers and captured six German soldiers.
He is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.
Signed Commander, 299th Guards Tarnopol Orders of Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Mortar Regiment, Hero of the Soviet Guards Lieutenant Colonel Zyl on 10.05.1945
Awarded the Order of the Red Star by Artillery Commander, 10th Guards Ural-Lvov Volunteer Tank Corps, Guards Colonel Voinov on 14 May 1945
*Geographic place name is an approximation based off of transliterated Russian from German translated into English [/SIZE]
1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Krasnobai, Ivan Arkhipovich
2. Rank: Guards Private
3. Duty position: Loader – 1st Battery, 299th Guards Tarnopol Orders of Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Mortar Regiment, 10th Guards Ural-Lvov Volunteer Tank Corps
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1909
5. Nationality: Ukrainian
6. In Red Army: since March 1943
7. Party membership: yes
8. Previous combat: Bryansk Front beginning 20.07.43 and 1st Ukrainian Front since 19.01.44
9. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
10. Prior awards: Bravery Medal 15th August, 1944
11. Inducted by: Molotov Regional Military Commissariat
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
From 24th-25th Apri,l 1945 northeast of the village of Gutengoru*, Comrade Krasnobai provided accurate and rapid loading of his mortar, as a result of his mortar’s fire, two enemy ammunition stores, an enemy kitchen vehicle, and as much as a platoon of enemy were destroyed, thus weakening the enemy on the far shore and hindering the advance of our units.
While under heavy enemy cannon and machinegun fire Comrade Krasnobai delivered mortar rounds, thus helping to deliver further mortar rounds upon the enemy.
On 29th April, 1945 on Vanze* island the enemy conducted two counterattacks and Comrade Krasnobai employed his skill to accurately and quickly load the mortar and suppressed two enemy machinegun positions and decimated as much as a platoon of submachinegunners.
On 2nd May, 1945 near the village of Stuken while destroying an enemy pocket, Comrade Krasnobai employed his assigned weapon to kill four German soldiers and captured six German soldiers.
He is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.
Signed Commander, 299th Guards Tarnopol Orders of Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Mortar Regiment, Hero of the Soviet Guards Lieutenant Colonel Zyl on 10.05.1945
Awarded the Order of the Red Star by Artillery Commander, 10th Guards Ural-Lvov Volunteer Tank Corps, Guards Colonel Voinov on 14 May 1945
*Geographic place name is an approximation based off of transliterated Russian from German translated into English [/SIZE]
