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[SIZE="3"]Award Sheet
1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Podogov, Dmitrii Ivanovich
2. Rank: Sergeant
3. Duty position: T-34 Radio Operator-Machinegunner – 203 Tank Battalion, 89 Tank Brigade, 1 Tank Corps
Application for the Order of the Red Star
4. Birthyear: 1924
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: Comsomol member since 1943
7. Participation in combat: Patriotic War since June 1943
8. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
9. Time in the Red Army: since August 1942
10. Inducted by: Gorodinskii Regional Military Commissariat, Penzenskaya Oblast
11. Earlier Awards: n/a
12. Home of record: Penzenskaya Oblast, Gorodinskii Region, Chadaevka Station, village of Uranka. Mother – Podogova, Agafa Karlovna
Short description of personal combat feat or service
In combat from 13 through 20 July 1943, Cormade Podogov maintained continuous communications with the command post commander and battalion commander, thus permitting the tank commander the best situational awareness on the battlefield. His radio operated continuously throughout all the fighting. He observed shell impact and corrected fire.
On 13 July 1943 near the village of Staritsa the crew destroyed two tanks, two field guns, an armored vehicle, two motorcycles, and as many as 20 enemy soldiers and officers.
Comrade Podogov is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.
Signed 203 Tank Battalion Commander, Senior Lieutenant Komarov on 24 July 1943
Endorsed 89 Tank Brigade Commander, Colonel Bann(?) on 28 July 1943
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1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Podogov, Dmitrii Ivanovich
2. Rank: Sergeant
3. Duty position: T-34 Radio Operator-Machinegunner – 203 Tank Battalion, 89 Tank Brigade, 1 Tank Corps
Application for the Order of the Red Star
4. Birthyear: 1924
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: Comsomol member since 1943
7. Participation in combat: Patriotic War since June 1943
8. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
9. Time in the Red Army: since August 1942
10. Inducted by: Gorodinskii Regional Military Commissariat, Penzenskaya Oblast
11. Earlier Awards: n/a
12. Home of record: Penzenskaya Oblast, Gorodinskii Region, Chadaevka Station, village of Uranka. Mother – Podogova, Agafa Karlovna
Short description of personal combat feat or service
In combat from 13 through 20 July 1943, Cormade Podogov maintained continuous communications with the command post commander and battalion commander, thus permitting the tank commander the best situational awareness on the battlefield. His radio operated continuously throughout all the fighting. He observed shell impact and corrected fire.
On 13 July 1943 near the village of Staritsa the crew destroyed two tanks, two field guns, an armored vehicle, two motorcycles, and as many as 20 enemy soldiers and officers.
Comrade Podogov is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.
Signed 203 Tank Battalion Commander, Senior Lieutenant Komarov on 24 July 1943
Endorsed 89 Tank Brigade Commander, Colonel Bann(?) on 28 July 1943
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