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[SIZE="3"]Award Sheet
1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Pershin, Mikhail Rodionovich
2. Rank: Master Sergeant
3. Duty position: Squad Leader – 310th Independent Signals Company, 329th Rifle Division
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1921
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: yes
7. Previous combat: Did not participate in the Civil War. In Patriotic War on 1st Ukrainian Front since 11th February, 1944
8. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
9. In Red Army: since 18th March, 1942
10. Inducted by: Kimeshlievskii Municipal Military Commissariat
11. Previous awards: Combat Service Medal
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
While squad leader in fighting for the population area of Studzyanits, a communication line was put out of order by enemy artillery and mortar fire and the village was saturated by fire, however risking his life under heavy enemy artillery and mortar shelling, he organized the repair of the line and personally negotiating the fire repaired as many as 25 line breaks, saving cable, and thus supporting the Command’s uninterrupted communications with surrounding units. He is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.
Signed Commander, 310th Independent Signals Company, Guards Senior Lieutenant Gu(?) on 27th August, 1944
Endorsed Commander, 329th Rifle Division, Colonel Yaremenko on 31st August, 1944
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1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Pershin, Mikhail Rodionovich
2. Rank: Master Sergeant
3. Duty position: Squad Leader – 310th Independent Signals Company, 329th Rifle Division
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1921
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: yes
7. Previous combat: Did not participate in the Civil War. In Patriotic War on 1st Ukrainian Front since 11th February, 1944
8. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
9. In Red Army: since 18th March, 1942
10. Inducted by: Kimeshlievskii Municipal Military Commissariat
11. Previous awards: Combat Service Medal
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
While squad leader in fighting for the population area of Studzyanits, a communication line was put out of order by enemy artillery and mortar fire and the village was saturated by fire, however risking his life under heavy enemy artillery and mortar shelling, he organized the repair of the line and personally negotiating the fire repaired as many as 25 line breaks, saving cable, and thus supporting the Command’s uninterrupted communications with surrounding units. He is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.
Signed Commander, 310th Independent Signals Company, Guards Senior Lieutenant Gu(?) on 27th August, 1944
Endorsed Commander, 329th Rifle Division, Colonel Yaremenko on 31st August, 1944
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