Red Star,0762492,Senior Fire Inspector,15th Air Army,Rezekne

[Bill Garvy]

Award Sheet
1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Skivo, Efim Pavlovich
2. Rank: Senior Technical Lieutenant
3. Duty position: Senior Fire Inspector, 15th Air Army
Recommendation for the Order of the Patriotic War II Class
4. Born: 1912
5. Nationality: Ukrainian
6. Party membership: Comsomol member
7. Previous combat: 2-11.43 on Bryansk Front and since 11.1943 on the 2 Baltic Front
8. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
9. Time in Red Army: 1932-1934 and since 1936 until present
10. Inducted by: Saratov Regional Military Commissariat
11. Previous awards: n/a
12. Home of record: Chirchik, Tombov Oblast, Stalin Camps, Region 1, Bldg. 12

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
He has served in the 15th Air Army since June, 1943. He has been the Senior Fire Inspector. He has dealt with his responsibilities well. As a result of his work, he greatly enabled the successful conduct of anti-incendiary measures in the units, which as a result, the number of fires in the units has been kept to a minimum.
Much time and attention has been spent to the personnel’s special training. He spends the majority of the time in fire prevention at the unit level, rendering direct assistance in fire prevention at the unit level. On 17th August of this year during an enemy air raid near Rezekne station an incendiary bomb had set ablaze a train car with artillery pieces and ammunition that was located in the center of the train. Himself at the station, Comrade Skivo took the necessary measures and organized a [trans: illegible] of equipment, mobilized the personnel, approached the train cars, and from there removed the items to a safe location. Due to his actions, five train cars with equipment and two with wounded personnel were saved.
For his self-sacrifice and displaying bravery and courage in saving defensive equipment and personnel, Comrade Skivo is deserving of the Order of the Patriotic War II Class.

Signed Deputy Commander of the Rear Area, 15th Air Army, General-Major of Aviation Kazakov on 26th August, 1944.