Red Star,1613053,Senior Telephonist,39th Separate Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade

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Here is Red Star #1613053.

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The last (and highest) of a trio of awards for bravery to Nikolaj Petrovich Konev.

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1. Family, Name, Patronym. Konev Nikolaj Petrovich
2. Rank. Corporal
3. Position and unit. Senior Telephonist Management Battery 39th Separate Destroyer Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade Reserve Of The Supreme Command.
Presented. For the Order "Red Star".
4. Year of birth. 1925
5. Nationality. Russian
6. Party Membership. Non-Partisan
7. Participation in the Civil War, subsequent military activity in defence of the USSR and Patriotic War /where, when/
From August 1944 to January 1945 1st Baltic Front, from January 1945 1st Belorussian Front.
8. Has been wounded, contused. Has not.
9. From which time in Red Army. Since February 1943.
10. Which Regional Military Commissariat called. Zolotuhino Regional Military Commissariat Kursk Oblast.

In repelling the attack of enemy infantry at Grajfenberg 7th March 1945 Corpral Konev proved himself bold and brave.
Received the task to destroy submachine-gunners entrenched in a house hindering the advance of our units, Konev under enemy fire snuck into the house destroying 3 German submachine-gunners ensuring the advance of units.
On the roof of one of the houses fire from his submachine-gun destroyed an enemy gun crew.

For boldness and courage shown in battle he is worthy of the governmental award the Order "Red Star".

Chief Of Staff 39th Separate Destroyer Anti-Tank Artillery Tomashev Brigade Reserve Of The Supreme Command Lieutenant-Colonel Stetsenko 17th March 1945

Awarded the governmental award Order "Red Star".

Commander 39th Separate Destroyer Anti-Tank Artillery Tomashev Brigade Reserve Of The Supreme Command Guards Colonel Pupkov 17th March 1945

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Grajfenberg - Greifenberg in Pommern - currently Gryfice in Pomerania region - there were/are more settllements by that name, but Greifenberg in Pommern was captured by the Red Army in March 1945

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This was a piece of information I was yet to post (The other Red Star has plenty of locations so I was stalling) . Gryfice was quiet easy to find (in comparison to so lost settlements) as if pops up on Russian wikipedia if you stick the name in the citation.

Looks like the perfect place for dramatic house hopping as so frequently recreated in films.

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Now that is close combat.