Red Star,1361984,37mm Gunner,38th Separate Guards Air Defence Battalion

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1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Khaidarov, Mirza
2. Rank: Guards Private
3. Duty position: 37mm Air Defense Gun Gunner – 38 Independent Guards Air Defense Battalion

Recommendation for the Bravery Medal

4. Born: 1924
5. Nationality: Tajik
6. Party membership: Comsomol member
7. Previous combat: Participant of the Patriotic War since 1942
8. Wounds or shell-shock: none
9. Time in Red Army: since 1942
10. Inducted by: Kasansuiskii Regional Military Commissariat, Namangan Oblast
11. Previous awards: Glory III on 15.9.44 by 4 Guards Cavalry Division
12. Home of record: Uzbek SSR, Namangan Oblast, Kasan-Suiskii Region, Comsomol Collective Farm; mother – Salieva, Cherapat

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

Comrade Khaidarov is the most modest and disciplined warrior. In fighting against the German-fascist invaders he has proven himself a bold and courageous soldier. As the first gunner of an anti-tank rifle in fighting near Prague, he destroyed one gun, a large-caliber machinegun, and one enemy armored personnel carrier, thus permitting the advance of the squadron. In the attack he cut down a German soldier and took five prisoners. In fighting from the Vistula to the fascist beast’s den, he displayed courage and bravery. As a 37mm anti-aircraft gun member in fighting near Neu Herzberg, his platoon repelled an enemy attack and twenty German soldiers and officers were killed and thirty taken prisoner. Near Nauen an aircraft was repelled and not permitted to bomb our deployed units. He is deserving of the Bravery Medal.

Signed Commander, 38 Independent Guards Air Defense Battalion, Guards Major Nikolaev on 10 May 1945

Recommended upgrade to Order of the Red Star signed Commander, 17 Guards Mozyr Order of Lenin Order of the Red Banner Order of Suvorov Cavalry Division, Guards General-Major Kurolkov on 17 May 1945

Awarded by Order 14/N of the 17 Guards Cavalry Division

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