Red Star,0591586,Scout Squad Leader,51st Rifle Corps Artillery,2nd Ukrainian Front

[Bill Garvy]

Award Card
Order Booklet A 661826
1. Last name: Pavlenko
2. Name and patrionymic: Petr Petrovich
3. Rank: Master Sergeant
4. Gender: Male
5. Birthyear: 1911
6. Birthplace: Stalin Oblast, Makeevskii Region
7. Party membership: since 1944
8. Education: elementary
9. Nationality: Ukrainian
10. Time in Red Army: 1941-1945
11. Place of service at awarding: 51st Rifle Corps, 2nd Ukrainian Front – HQ Battery First Sergeant
12. Place of work at present: Stalin Oblast, Mokino Station - weigher
13. Home address: Stalin Oblast, Makeevskii Region, Moskino, Sadovaya St. #43

14. Awards:
Designation Serial Number Awarding Organization

Red Star 591.586 51st Rifle Corps dated 15.10.43

Glory III 140.494 51st Rifle Corps dated 7.8.44

Combat Service Medal 3.107.035 51st RC, 2nd Ukrainian Front dated 12.6.45

Verified by Stalin Oblast Military Commissariat Chief of the 3rd Section, Captain Omeltenko on 13th May, 1947.

[Bill Garvy]

Award Sheet

1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Pavlenko, Petr Petrovich
2. Rank: Master Sergeant
3. Duty position: Scout Squad Leader – HQ Battery, 51st Rifle Corps Artillery Commander
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1911
5. Nationality: Ukrainian
6. Party membership: candidate member
7. Previous combat: Western and Voronezh Fronts
8. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
9. In Red Army: since 8.1941
10. Inducted by: Makeevskii Regional Military Commissariat, Stalin Oblast
11. Previous awards: n/a
12. Home of record: Stalin Oblast, Makeevskii Region, Mokino, Godovaya #36

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

During the Desna river crossing HQ Battery Scout Squad Leader Master Sergeant Pavlenko exhibited valor and bravery crossing to the far shore with the recon platoon’s equipment in a fishing boat.

On the western shore he established continuous observation of the enemy’s firing positions, discovering two mortar batteries, two artillery batteries, as well as several heavy machineguns and observation posts, thus enabling the suppression of the enemy’s artillery. He is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.

Signed 51st Rifle Corps Artillery Chief of Staff Major Makary(?) on 14th October, 1943.

On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, I award the Order of the Red Star, signed 51st Rifle Corps Artillery Commander General-Major of Artillery (?) on 14th October, 1943.

[Bill Garvy]

Unit Award Order

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Voronezh Front, 38th Army, 51st Rifle Corps Artillery Commander Order 01/N dated 15th October, 1943

On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet USSR, I award the following decorations for exemplary accomplishment of the Command’s missions in the struggle against the German invaders and for having displayed valor and bravery:

Order of the Red Star to:

2. First Sergeant Petr Petrovich Pavlenko – Scout, HQ Battery, 51st Rifle Corps Artillery Commander

Signed 51st Rifle Corps Artillery Commander Colonel Ryabov on 27th November, 1943.

[Bill Garvy]

First Sergeant Petr Petrovich Pavlenko's Order of the Red Star, #591586. . .