Red Star,1358765,Rifleman,183rd Rifle Regiment,Berlin

[Tommy]

Award Card

Order Booklet 933066

Last name: Khrapalin
Name and patrionymic: Grigorii Ivanovich
Rank: Junior Sergeant
Gender: Male
Birthyear: 1921
Birthplace: Poltava Oblast, Petrovsk-Romenskii Region, village of Krasnoznamenka
Party membership: n/a
Education: sixth grade
Nationality: Ukrainian
Time in Red Army: 10 October 1940 - 25 October 1945 without break
Place of service at awarding: Squad Leader – 16 Corps, 33 Army Intelligence Section
Place of work at present:
Home address: Poltava Oblast, Petrovsko-Romenskii Region, village of Krasnoznamenka

Awards:

Designation Serial Number Awarding Organization
Bravery Medal 1.743.481 433 Rifle Regiment dated 10 October 1944
Red Star 1.358.765 38 Rifle Corps dated 21 May 1945

Verified by Petrovsk-Romenskii Regional Military Commissariat Captain (?)zov on 5 March 1946

[Tommy]

Award Sheet Last name, name, and patrionymic: Khrapalin, Grigorii Ivanovich
Rank: Junior Sergeant
Duty position: Rifleman – 183 Rifle Regiment now assigned to 38 Rifle Corps intelligence section
Recommendation for the Order of the Patriotic War II Class
Born: 1921
Nationality: Ukrainian
Party membership: n/a
Previous combat: since August 1942 on the Western Front
Wounds or shell-shock: wounded three times 14.12.42 (light), 3.8.43 (light), and 11.8.44 (light)
In Red Army: since October 1940
Inducted by: Petrovarovskii Regional Military Commissariat, Poltava Oblast
Previous awards: Bravery Medal on 10.10.44 by 64 Rifle Division
Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

Comrade Khrapalin has been on the front of the Patriotic War since August 1942. He has been wounded three times. He participated in offensive fighting on the Vistula and Oder rivers. While in the Corps Observation Post Comrade Khrapalin accurately observed the enemy.

In fighting for Berlin Comrade Khrapalin was the first to rush into a building defended by Germans and motivated our soldiers to follow him. In this engagement he killed eight Hitlerites with grenades and his submachinegun and took 12 prisoners.

He is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.

Signed Chief of Intelligence, 38 Rifle Corps, Lieutenant Colonel Be(?)lnitov on 11 May 1945

[Tommy]

Here she is.

The centre of the reverse is notably concaved in this variation.

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Cheers,

Tom

[marsino]

Originally Posted by Tommy

The centre of the reverse is notably concaved in this variation.

:thumbsup T6 V4.3 Concave Reverse (Filer)