Glory III,115735,T-34 Tank Loader,70th Tank Brigade

[Norm Braddock]

AWARD CARD

Order Booklet № B – 127163

1. Last Name Ovcharenko
2. Name and Patronymic Ivan Fedorovich
3. Military Rank Senior Sergeants
4. Sex Male
5. Year of Birth 1912
6. Place of Birth Krasnodar Province, Gul’kevich District, Novo-Mikhailovskoe Village
7. Party Membership Member of the VKP(b) (All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)) since 1944
8. Education Elementary
9. Nationality Russian
10. In the Red Army since 7.1941 till 11.1945
11. Place of service (name of the unit) and duty position at time of awarding 5th Tank Corps, 70th Tank Brigade, Commander of the Gun of a T-34 Tank
12. Place of service and duty position at current time Krasnodar Province, Gulkevich District, Novo-Mikhailovskoe Village Council, Collective Farm “Chervona Ukraina” – Collective Farmer
13. Home address of the awardee Krasnodar Province, Gulkevich District, Novo-Mikhailovskoe Village Council, Collective Farm “Chervona Ukraina”
14. List of all awardings

Name of Orders, Medals Serial Number Numbers of Documents Awarder
For Bravery 764809 Temp. Certif.
A-744749 Order of the 70th Tank Brigade № 02 of 2.2.1944
Glory 3rd Class 115735 Temp. Certif.
V-322808 Order of the 5th Tank Corps № 018 of 30.7.1944

Signature of the awardee (signed) Ovcharenko
Gul'kevich Military District Commissariat

Correctness of the data and signature of awardee attested by:
Guards Lieutenant Colonel (signed)

26 August 1947 / Gumenjuk /





Secret
O R D E R Copy № 2

Of the 5th TANK CORPS

30 July 1944 № 018 Front-line Forces


In name of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for exemplary performance of the commanded battle operations on the front in the battle with the German Invader and for the bravery and courage manifested in these I A W A R D :



Order of GLORY 3rd CLASS





22. Senior Sergeant OVCHARENKO T-34 Tank Loader, 1st Tank Battalion,
Ivan Fedorovich 70th Order of Suvorov Tank Brigade






Commander of the 5th Tank Corps
General Major of Tank Forces (Signed) / Sakhno /

Chief of the Headquarters of the Corps
Colonel (Signed) / Babizkij /













AWARD LIST

1. Last Name, name and patronymic Ovcharenko Ivan Fedorovich
2. Rank Senior Sergeant
3. Position, unit T-34 Tank Loader, 1st Tank Battalion, 70th Order of Suvorov Tank Brigade
Is Recommended for the order of “Glory 3rd Class”
4. Year of birth 1912
5. Nationality Ukrainian
6. Party membership Candidate Member of the VKP(b) (All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)) since 1944
7. Participation in the civil war and other military actions aimed at the defense of the USSR (where and when) Patriotic War since 29.7.1941
8. Wounds or contusions received during the Patriotic War Doesn’t have
9. In the Red Army since 1941
10. Drafted by what district military commissariat Gul’kevich District Military Commissariat, Krasnodar Province
11. Previous awards Medal “For Bravery”, order № 02 of 2.02.1944 of the 70th Order of Suvorov Tank Brigade
12. Permanent home address (of the prospective awardee or his/her family) Born: Krasnodar Province, Gulkevich District, Novo-Mikhailovskoe Village Council; Home address: the same. Wife: Ovcharenko Polina Gordeevna


I. Brief description of personal feat


Senior Sergeant Ovcharenko I.F. in the battles from 17th till 20th July 1944 for the villages Ust'e 2nd, Siniza and Kovalevschina provided unceasing fire to the commander of the tank. For the three days of fighting, Senior Sergeant Ovcharenko I.F. destroyed: three field guns, machine gun and hand machine gun, killed more than 20 enemy soldiers and officers. When due to enemy's fire the tank caught up in flames and the crew did not have the possibility to get out from the burning tank because of the machine gun fire of the enemy, he remained in the tank, covering with the canon and machine gun fire the crew's escape from the burning tank. After exiting the tank, together with the crew he got in a fight with the counterattacking enemy, killing up to 10 fascists.
For the courage and bravery manifested in the battle he deserves governmental awards, order of the "Glory 3rd Class".


Commander of the 1st Tank Battalion
Captain (Signed) / Borodaj /


23.7.1944


Deservers the governmental awards, order of Glory 3rd Class.

Commander of the 70th Order of Suvorov Tank Brigade
Colonel (Signed) / Kuznetsov /

24 July 1944

[Laurent]

Nice citation! :thumbsup
An OG 3rd class is quite low order for all this! :confused:

[CtahhR]

The original citation.