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[SIZE="3"]Award sheet
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Award sheet
1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Chikin, Stanislav Yegorovich
2. Rank: Junior Lieutenant
3. Position and unit: Gunner-bombardier in the 391st Independent Communications Aviation Squadron, 9th Łódź Ground-Attack Aviation Corps
Nominated for: Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class
4. Year of birth: 1923
5. Nationality: Ukrainian
6. Party affiliation: Member of the Communist Party since 1945
7. Participation in the Civil War, the subsequent combat actions to defend the USSR, and the Patriotic War (where and when): In the Patriotic War on the Bryansk Front from 1941 through 1942, on the 3rd Ukrainian Front from 1943 through 1944, and on the 1st Belorussian Front from 1944 through 1945
8. Wounds and contusions received during the Patriotic War: Received one light wound in 1942 on the Bryansk Front
9. Since when in the Red Army: Since 1940
10. Drafted by which military commissariat: Military Commissariat of the Tomakovka Raion, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast
11. Awards received previously (for which merits): None
12. Permanent home address of the prospective awardee and the address of his family:
Short, concrete description of his combat feat or merits:
Junior Lieutenant Chikin has been participating in the Patriotic War since September 1943 for a second time after he had recovered from a wound he received in 1942. Before he joined his current squadron comrade Chikin conducted 25 sorties on the Bryansk Front in an R-5 aircraft with an overall flight time of 65 hours, bombing the enemy front line.
During his service with his current squadron he conducted 20 sorties with an overall flight time of 28 hours, maintaining communications between the corps and the ground troops.
He flew up to the front line, in range of enemy fighters.
He possesses a thorough understanding of his specialty. In the air he has a good sense of direction. He carries out his missions in an excellent manner.
During the operation at the Vistula River on the Radom axis he was personally given orders by the corps commander to fly toward our troops’ front line. He handled this task very well.
In everyday life he is a cultured officer. He is disciplined and serves as an example for the other officers.
For carrying out his combat missions in an excellent manner he deserves to be awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class.
Commander of the 391st Independent Communications Aviation Squadron
Major [signed] /Zakrevsky/
April 14, 1945
He deserves to be awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class.
Commander of the 9th Łódź Ground-Attack Aviation Corps
Guards Major General of Aviation [signed] /Krupsky/
April 22, 1945
By Order of the 9th Łódź Ground-Attack Aviation Corps nr. 031 of April 22, 1945 awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class.
On behalf of the chief of the Personnel Section of the 9th Ground-Attack Aviation Corps
Major [signed by deputy] /Sergeyev/
April 23, 1945
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Award sheet
1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Chikin, Stanislav Yegorovich
2. Rank: Junior Lieutenant
3. Position and unit: Gunner-bombardier in the 391st Independent Communications Aviation Squadron, 9th Łódź Ground-Attack Aviation Corps
Nominated for: Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class
4. Year of birth: 1923
5. Nationality: Ukrainian
6. Party affiliation: Member of the Communist Party since 1945
7. Participation in the Civil War, the subsequent combat actions to defend the USSR, and the Patriotic War (where and when): In the Patriotic War on the Bryansk Front from 1941 through 1942, on the 3rd Ukrainian Front from 1943 through 1944, and on the 1st Belorussian Front from 1944 through 1945
8. Wounds and contusions received during the Patriotic War: Received one light wound in 1942 on the Bryansk Front
9. Since when in the Red Army: Since 1940
10. Drafted by which military commissariat: Military Commissariat of the Tomakovka Raion, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast
11. Awards received previously (for which merits): None
12. Permanent home address of the prospective awardee and the address of his family:
Short, concrete description of his combat feat or merits:
Junior Lieutenant Chikin has been participating in the Patriotic War since September 1943 for a second time after he had recovered from a wound he received in 1942. Before he joined his current squadron comrade Chikin conducted 25 sorties on the Bryansk Front in an R-5 aircraft with an overall flight time of 65 hours, bombing the enemy front line.
During his service with his current squadron he conducted 20 sorties with an overall flight time of 28 hours, maintaining communications between the corps and the ground troops.
He flew up to the front line, in range of enemy fighters.
He possesses a thorough understanding of his specialty. In the air he has a good sense of direction. He carries out his missions in an excellent manner.
During the operation at the Vistula River on the Radom axis he was personally given orders by the corps commander to fly toward our troops’ front line. He handled this task very well.
In everyday life he is a cultured officer. He is disciplined and serves as an example for the other officers.
For carrying out his combat missions in an excellent manner he deserves to be awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class.
Commander of the 391st Independent Communications Aviation Squadron
Major [signed] /Zakrevsky/
April 14, 1945
He deserves to be awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class.
Commander of the 9th Łódź Ground-Attack Aviation Corps
Guards Major General of Aviation [signed] /Krupsky/
April 22, 1945
By Order of the 9th Łódź Ground-Attack Aviation Corps nr. 031 of April 22, 1945 awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class.
On behalf of the chief of the Personnel Section of the 9th Ground-Attack Aviation Corps
Major [signed by deputy] /Sergeyev/
April 23, 1945
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