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01-08-2011, 12:07 PM | #1 |
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Red Star,0128588,Deputy Commissar,277th Assault Aviation Division,Leningrad Front
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Order booklet 375509 1. Last name: Pastushkov 2. Name and Patrionymic: Boris Yakovlevich 3. Rank: Colonel 4. Sex: Male 5. Birthyear: 1909 6. Birthplace: Moscow 7. Party Membership: member since 1928 8. Education: mid-level 9. Nationality: Russian 10. Service in the Red Army: since 30.10.1931 11. Place of service and duty position at time of awarding: Deputy Commander for Political Units, 277th Assault Aviation Division 12. Place of service and duty position at the current time: Deputy Chief of the Political Section, 1st Air Army 13. Home of Record: Bobruisk, Aviation Base 14. Awards Award Serial Number Awarder Red Star 2.607.131 Edict dated 5.11.46 Red Star 128.588 Leningrad Front dated 12.4.43 Patriotic War I 41.866 Leningrad Front dated 17.2.44 Red Banner 167.022 Leningrad Front dated 5.10.44 Combat Service Medal 2.510.960 Edict dated 3.11.44 Red Banner 220.251 3 Belorussian Front dated 13.5.45 Defense of Leningrad Medal Edict dated 22.12.42 Victory over Germany Medal Edict dated 5.1945 Capture of Koenigsberg Medal Edict dated 9.6.45 Red Banner 6840 (3d Awarding) Edict dated 9.6.45 30th Anniversary of Soviet Army and Navy Medal Edict dated 2.1948 Originally verified 15th December, 1945 by 1st Air Army Personnel officer Major (?) prior to later additions |
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01-08-2011, 12:10 PM | #2 |
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Re: Red Star,Leningrad Front,128588
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Award Sheet 1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Pastushkov, Boris Yakovlevich 2. Rank: Lieutenant Colonel 3. Duty position: Deputy Commander for Political Units – 277th Assault Aviation Division Application for the Order of the Red Banner 4. Birthyear: 1909 5. Nationality: Russian 6. Party Membership: since 1928 7. Previous participation in combat: Civil War – no. In Patriotic War since beginning. 8. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a 9. In Red Army: since 1931 10. Inducted by: Taganrog Municipal Military Commissariat 11. Earlier awards: n/a 12. Home of record: Field Post 729, Unit 100 Short description of personal combat feat or service As a military aviation commander he has promoted a high political-morale environment since August 1941 and successful mission accomplishment among the unit’s personnel. During this period the regiment shot down 46 enemy planes and completed five aerial ramming attacks. In occasionally difficult working conditions he has proven himself a steadfast, industrious, and rationally motivated individual, correctly orienting himself to the situation at hand and making proper decisions. During the Patriotic War he has served from regimental commissar to the division’s deputy commander for political units, proving himself a bold, willful, and polished political commander. During the division’s penetration of the Leningrad blockade, Comrade Pastushkov was the division’s deputy commander for political units and he conducted massive efforts in accomplishing the unit’s combat missions; during the mentioned operation the pilots conducted 241 combat sorties of 173 flight hours, 52 minutes. During this period the division’s pilots destroyed 8 tanks, 172 vehicles loaded with personnel and equipment, 3 locomotives, 45 train cars with 38 train cars damaged. They suppressed the fire of 57 artillery batteries, 25 air defense batteries, and air defense command and control sites. They killed as many as 1200 enemy soldiers and officers and the assault aviation pilots shot down two enemy ME-109 aircraft. All the above actions were supported by proper decisions. He conducts decisive measures for ensuring iron discipline and military order, conducting educational work with high demands of his subordinates. He is capably organized and performs party-political work, educating the unit’s personnel with bravery, valor, heroism, military mastery, and unlimited dedication to the Motherland, as well as burning hatred for the enemy. For displayed courage, steadfastness, initiative, and effort in the accomplishment of combat missions, he is being recommended for the Order of the Red Banner. Signed Chief of the 13 Air Army Political Section, Colonel Shanshashvili on 2nd February, 1943. Recommended downgrade to Order of the Red Star by Commander, 13th Air Army, General-Major of Aviation (?) on 23rd February, 1943. |
01-08-2011, 12:13 PM | #3 |
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Re: Red Star,Leningrad Front,128588
Lieutenant Colonel Boris Yakovlevich Pastushkov's Red Star. . .
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01-08-2011, 05:42 PM | #4 |
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Re: Red Star,Leningrad Front,128588
Very cool early RS and citation for this politruk! :thumbsup
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