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[SIZE="3"]Award Sheet
1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Penkin, Nikolai Aleksandrovich
2. Rank: Lieutenant
3. Duty position: Platoon Leader – 1 Platoon, 120mm Mortar Battery, 275th Rifle Regiment, 117th Rifle Division
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1919
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: candidate member
7. Previous combat: since July 1942
8. Wounds or shell-shock: thrice wounded
9. In Armed Forces: since October 1939
10. Inducted by: Orichev Regional Military Commissariat, Kriov Oblast
11. Previous awards: n/a
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
During the regiment’s combat operations from 7.10.43 to 10.11.43 he accurately concentrated his mortars’ fire on an enemy objective. In combat for the villages of Tikhonovo, Raki, Borodushki and the village of Vitebsk Oblast he quickly suppressed firing positions and destroyed enemy personnel. On his platoon’s record are the following destroyed targets: two observation posts, a crossing, several bunkers, three light machine guns and up to 50 enemy soldiers and officers.
He is being recommended for the Order of the Red Star.
Signed Commander, 275th Rifle Regiment, Major Androsov and Chief of Staff, Captain Pavlov on 14th November, 1943
Endorsed Commander, 117 Rifle Division, General-Major Koveridze and Chief of Staff Colonel Gofman on 23rd November, 1943
Awarded the Order of the Red Star by 117th Rifle Division Order 0190 dated 24th November, 1943. Signed Chief of Staff, Colonel Gofman.
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1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Penkin, Nikolai Aleksandrovich
2. Rank: Lieutenant
3. Duty position: Platoon Leader – 1 Platoon, 120mm Mortar Battery, 275th Rifle Regiment, 117th Rifle Division
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1919
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: candidate member
7. Previous combat: since July 1942
8. Wounds or shell-shock: thrice wounded
9. In Armed Forces: since October 1939
10. Inducted by: Orichev Regional Military Commissariat, Kriov Oblast
11. Previous awards: n/a
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
During the regiment’s combat operations from 7.10.43 to 10.11.43 he accurately concentrated his mortars’ fire on an enemy objective. In combat for the villages of Tikhonovo, Raki, Borodushki and the village of Vitebsk Oblast he quickly suppressed firing positions and destroyed enemy personnel. On his platoon’s record are the following destroyed targets: two observation posts, a crossing, several bunkers, three light machine guns and up to 50 enemy soldiers and officers.
He is being recommended for the Order of the Red Star.
Signed Commander, 275th Rifle Regiment, Major Androsov and Chief of Staff, Captain Pavlov on 14th November, 1943
Endorsed Commander, 117 Rifle Division, General-Major Koveridze and Chief of Staff Colonel Gofman on 23rd November, 1943
Awarded the Order of the Red Star by 117th Rifle Division Order 0190 dated 24th November, 1943. Signed Chief of Staff, Colonel Gofman.
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