"Gratitude" Certificates.

[Bill Garvy]

[SIZE="3"]dated March 7th, 1945 for Pev, Starograd, & Danzig

Award Sheet

1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Ibragimov, Ablai
2. Rank: Guards Senior Lieutenant
3. Duty position: Commander – Machinegun Company, 109th Guards Rifle Regiment, 37th Guards Rifle Division
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1920
5. Nationality: Uzbek
6. Party membership: CPSU member since 1943 #5856641
7. Previous combat: Western Front 8.1941-3.1942, Stalingrad Front 7.1942-1.1943, Central and Belorussian Fronts since 2.1943
8. Wounds or shell-shock: wounded 24.7.41 (light) Western Front, 4.8.42 (light) Stalingrad Front, 5.6.44 (serious) Belorussian Front, 11.9.44 (light) B. Front, and 26.3.45 (serious) Belorussian Front
9. In Armed Forces: since 1940
10. Inducted by: Oktyabrskii Regional Military Commissariat, Tashkent
11. Previous awards: OPWII by 18th Rifle Corps dated 14.1.45
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

In fighting on the approaches to Danzig, Comrade Ibrogimov proved himself a bold, capable commander. On 26thMarch, 1945 near the populated area of Brentau the enemy assumed the counterattack several times to seize advantageous positions.

Positioned directly in the midst of the rifle company’s fighting formations Comrade Ibragimov capably maneuvered the machineguns so that the enemy’s attacks were repelled successfully causing him heavy losses. In the hardest moments Comrade Ibragimov positioned himself behind a machinegun and fired upon the enemy. During the repulsion of the enemy’s fifth counterattack Comrade Ibragimov was seriously wounded.

He is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.

Signed Commander, 109th Guards Rifle Regiment, Guards Colonel Levin on 11th April, 1945

Recommended upgrade to the Order of Aleksandr Nevsky by Commander, 37th Guards Rechitskaya Twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Rifle Division, Guards General-Major K. Grebennik on 16th April, 1945

Upgrade endorsed by Commander, 18th Red Banner Rifle Corps, Hero of the Soviet Union General-Major Chuvakov on 29.4.45

Upgrade endorsed by 65th Army Commander General-Colonel Batov and Member of the Military Committee General-Major Radetskii on 17th May, 1945

Awarded the Order of Aleksandr Nevsky by 45th Army Order 618/N dated 19.5.45. Signed Deputy Chief, 2nd Section Chief of Personnel Captain Shcherbin(?)


My thanks to desantnik for his invaluable assistance!
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