Red Star,1251414,Adjutant,379th Separate Machine Gun-Artillery Battalion

[Bill Garvy]

Record card

Order booklet nr. A-225075

1. Last name: Trofimov
2. First name and patronymic: Mikhail Pavlovich
3. Military rank: Captain
4. Sex: Male
5. Year of birth: 1906
6. Place of birth: City of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Moscow Oblast
7. Party membership (since which year): Not a member
8. Education: Higher
9. Nationality: Russian
10. Since which year in the Red Army: Since August, 1941
11. Place of service (name of the unit) and position occupied at the time of the award: Senior adjutant of the 379th Independent Machinegun and Artillery Battalion, 152nd Fortified Region
12. Current place of service and position: Senior engineer at an energy project
13. Home address of the awardee: 12/1 Bolshaya Borogomilovskaya Street, apartment 4

14. List of all awards received:

Name of the order or medal/Serial number/Number of the document/Ground of award

Order of the Red Star 1165137 B-849914 Order of the artillery commander of the 39th Army nr. 01/N of February 10th, 1945

Order of the Red Star 1251414 B-865965 Order of the artillery commander of the 3rd Army nr. 327/N of April 3rd, 1945

Signature of the awardee: [signed]

I confirm the correctness of the data and the signature of the awardee (position and signature):

Assistant chief of the 3rd Section of the Military Commissariat of the Kiev Raion, city of Moscow
[signed]
November 6th, 1946

[Bill Garvy]

Order

Secret
Copy nr. 2

Order

Of the artillery commander of the 3rd Army

April 3rd, 1945 – Nr. 327/N – Operational Army

On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, for the exemplary execution of combat missions at the front in the struggle with the German invaders and the valour and bravery displayed in the process, I award:

[…]

The Order of the Red Star to:

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17. Captain Mikhail Pavlovich Trofimov, Senior Adjutant of the 379th Independent Machinegun and Artillery Battalion, 152nd Fortified Region

Member of the Military Council and artillery commander of the 3rd Army
Guards Major General of the Artillery [signed] /Vladimirov/



Chief of the Personnel Section of the Artillery of the 3rd Army
Major [signed] /Drozdov/

[Bill Garvy]

Award sheet

1. Last name, first name, and patronymic: Trofimov, Mikhail Petrovich
2. Rank: Captain
3. Position and unit: Senior adjutant of the 379th Independent Machinegun and Artillery Battalion, 152nd Fortified Region, 3rd Belorussian Front
Nominated for: Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class
4. Year of birth: 1906
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party affiliation: Not a member
7. Participation in the Civil War, the subsequent combat actions to defend the USSR, and the Patriotic War (where and when): In the Patriotic War, serving on the Southwestern Front from September 10, 1941 through October 17th, 1941 and on the Western and 3rd Belorussian Front since April 1st, 1943
8. Wounds and contusions received during the Patriotic War: No
9. Since when in the Red Army: Since June 23rd, 1941
10. Drafted by which military commissariat: Military Commissariat of the Kiev Raion, City of Moscow
11. Previous awards: None
12. Permanent home address of the prospective awardee and his family’s address: _______________

Short, concrete description of his feat of arms or accomplishments:

On February 12th, 1945, during the battalion’s offensive directed at the German invaders in the Landsberg area, Captain Trofimov himself adjusted the batteries’ artillery fire, suppressing and destroying enemy firepower. Always present at the forward observation post, he boldly and quickly assessed the situation and had his batteries bring down a powerful artillery barrage on the most important sectors. On February 18th and 19th, 1945, during the capture of the towns of Packhausen, Lichtwalde, and Hohendorf, he took the place of a battery commander who had been put out of action. He promptly took a number of measures and repelled several enemy counterattacks, inflicting as many as 10 casualties upon the enemy and suppressing 1 enemy battery.

Conclusion: He deserves this nomination for the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class.

Commander of the 379th Independent Machinegun and Artillery Battalion
Major [signed] /Tatarov/
February 26th, 1945

He deserves the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class.

Commander of the Artillery of the 152nd Fortified Region
Colonel [signed] /Litinsky/
March 2nd, 1945

He deserves the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class.

Commandant of the 152nd Fortified Region
Colonel [signed] /Sobolyov/
March 3rd, 1945

By Order of the army’s artillery commander nr. 327/N of April 3rd, 1945 awarded the Order of the Red Star.

Assistant chief of the Personnel Section of the Artillery of the 3rd Army
Captain [signed] /Lebedinsky/

[Bill Garvy]

Captain Mikhail Pavlovich Trofimov's Order of the Red Star, #1251414.

My thanks to Auke for his invaluable assistance!