For Bravery,0242565,Crew Member,71st Separate Air Defence Battalion,Leningrad

[Norm Braddock]

Award Sheet
1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Mikhailova, Valentina Aleksandrovna
2. Rank: Corporal
3. Duty position: Crew Member – PUAZO [trans: unknown abbreviation, possibly “Air Defense Command Point”], 71 Independent Air Defense Battalion, ARGK [trans: abbreviation for “Supreme Commander’s Artillery Reserve”]
Recommendation for the Bravery Medal
4. Born: 1925
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: Comsomol member
7. Previous combat: participant of the war on the Leningrad Front since 22.6.42
8. Wounds or shell-shock: wounded in February 1943
9. Time in Red Army: since 1942
10. Inducted by: Leningrad, Smolnii Regional Military Commissariat
11. Previous awards: n/a
12. Home of record: Leningrad, Sovetskii Prospekt, Bldg. 48, Apt. 48
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
She is dedicated to the Party of Lenin-Stalin and the Socialist Motherland. She has been in the war with German fascism since June 1942 and in the February-March Operation, working on a device disregarding enemy artillery fire, capably and boldly accomplished her combat mission. Although wounded, she remained at her position and continued to work the device. Only after ordered by the battery commander did she go to the battalion aid station.
At the present she is a combat training expert and continues to perfect her study.
Comrade Mikhailova is deserving of the Bravery Medal.
Signed, Commander, 71 Independent Air Defense Battalion, ARGK, Major Kaplan and Chief of Staff, Captin Arikhin on 19 AUG 43







Award Card
Uncompleted award card attests that Russian Corporal Valentina Aleksandrovna Mikhailova (b. 1925), member of an air defense system in the 71 Independent Air Defense Battalion (55 Army, Leningrad Front) was awarded a Bravery Medal on 22.8.43. Additionally, she was a Comsomol member.




Unit Award Listing
Attests Corporal Valentina Aleksandrovna Mikhailova was awarded Bravery Medal #242.565 in Medal Booklet 600642 by Order 20/N of the 55 Army dated 22.8.43.





SECRET
Order 020/N of the 55 Army, Leningrad Front dated 22 August 1943
On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet USSR for the excellent accomplishment of the Command’s missions in the struggle against the German invaders and for displaying valor and bravery, I award:
The Bravery Medal to:
2. Corporal Valentina Aleksandrovna Mikhailova PUAZO member – 71 Independent Air Defense Battalion, ARGK
Signed Commander of Artillery, 55 Army, Colonel Korovchenko

[marcotk]

The PUAZO is the control device for antiaircraft artillery guns.

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[UQWozza]

Nice to see the fairer sex getting a share of the medals:D

Nice medal Norm:thumbsup

Simon

[Koopyetz]

PUAZO-Прибор Управления Артиллерийским Зенитным Oгнем

[CtahhR]

Here is the original citation.