09-05-2010, 02:30 PM
[SIZE="3"]Award Sheet
1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Minosyan, Rafael Karlovich
2. Rank: Junior Lieutenant
3. Duty position: HQ Platoon Leader – 1 Battery, 105 Red Banner Sivash Order of Kutuzov High-Power Howitzer Artillery Brigade
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1920
5. Nationality: Armenian
6. Party membership: Comsomol member
7. Previous combat: Patriotic War since 1941
8. Wounds or shell-shock: lightly wounded 1942
9. Time in Red Army: since 1939
10. Inducted by: Dnzkaidskii Regional Military Commissariat, Armenian SSR
11. Previous awards: n/a
12. Home of record: Armenian SSR, Dnzkaidskii Region, village of Aralip
13. Birthplace: same
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
In fighting near Rzhev on the Western Front on 2.12.41 Comrade Minosyan displayed exemplary bravery. As a HQ platoon leader, he was ordered to maintain continuous communications with the commander of the attacking company. Under heavy artillery and machinegun fire during the advance, he provided the battery fire correction data against enemy resistance which resulted in the attacking company to accomplish its combat mission.
On 28 April 1944 in fighting near Vitebsk, again as a HQ platoon leader, he and a group of scouts were ordered to conduct a reconnaissance of the enemy on a hilltop. While under heavy enemy fire the brave scouts reached the hill, obtained target data and returned with no losses.
For bravery and courage displayed in combat with the German invaders he is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.
Signed Commander, 105 Sivash Red Banner Order of Kutuzov High-Power Howitzer Artillery Brigade, Colonel Solovev on 8 May 1945
Awarded the Order of the Red Star by Order #4/N of the 105 High-Power Howitzer Artillery Brigade dated 8 May 1945. Verified by Brigade Chief of Staff Lieutenant Colonel Prokofev
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1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Minosyan, Rafael Karlovich
2. Rank: Junior Lieutenant
3. Duty position: HQ Platoon Leader – 1 Battery, 105 Red Banner Sivash Order of Kutuzov High-Power Howitzer Artillery Brigade
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1920
5. Nationality: Armenian
6. Party membership: Comsomol member
7. Previous combat: Patriotic War since 1941
8. Wounds or shell-shock: lightly wounded 1942
9. Time in Red Army: since 1939
10. Inducted by: Dnzkaidskii Regional Military Commissariat, Armenian SSR
11. Previous awards: n/a
12. Home of record: Armenian SSR, Dnzkaidskii Region, village of Aralip
13. Birthplace: same
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
In fighting near Rzhev on the Western Front on 2.12.41 Comrade Minosyan displayed exemplary bravery. As a HQ platoon leader, he was ordered to maintain continuous communications with the commander of the attacking company. Under heavy artillery and machinegun fire during the advance, he provided the battery fire correction data against enemy resistance which resulted in the attacking company to accomplish its combat mission.
On 28 April 1944 in fighting near Vitebsk, again as a HQ platoon leader, he and a group of scouts were ordered to conduct a reconnaissance of the enemy on a hilltop. While under heavy enemy fire the brave scouts reached the hill, obtained target data and returned with no losses.
For bravery and courage displayed in combat with the German invaders he is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.
Signed Commander, 105 Sivash Red Banner Order of Kutuzov High-Power Howitzer Artillery Brigade, Colonel Solovev on 8 May 1945
Awarded the Order of the Red Star by Order #4/N of the 105 High-Power Howitzer Artillery Brigade dated 8 May 1945. Verified by Brigade Chief of Staff Lieutenant Colonel Prokofev
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