Campaign medal documents

[Bill Garvy]

Defense of the Caucasus medal document awarded to ethnic Georgian, V.A. Kvitatiani, by the 955th Artillery Regiment on October 8th, 1944.

[ObKrieger]

Historical of the 37th Guards Rifle Division (The Red Army order of battle, Robert G. Poirier / Albert Z. Conner)

-Units 109,114,118 Guards Rifle , 86 Guards Artillery Regiments .

-Raised at Lubertsy , Moscow Military District from 1 Airborne Corps July. 1942 .
-SME says activated at Moscow from 1 Airborne Corps , Aug. 1942 .
-Southwest Front w/4 Tank Army Aug. 1942 .
-Don River, Sep. 1942 .
-Stalingrad w/62 Army (Barrikady , Tractor factories) . Oct. 1942 .
-Called elite division in Stalingrad , Oct. 1942 .
-Destroyed in Tractor factory , Stalingrad , Oct. 1942 .
-RVGK Dec . 1942

-Central Front w/65 Army (rest of the war) , Feb. 1943 .
-Army reserve on Sevsk axis , June. 1943 .
-Orel , Aug. 1943 .
-Left Bank Ukraine , Aug / Oct . 1943 .

-Southeast Belorussia , Jan. 1944 .
-Bobruysk Op , main assault division of 18 Independent Rifle Corps , 65 Army , June. 1944 .
-Slonim , July. 1944 .
-Narew River , Sep. 1944 .

-Vistula Oder Op , Jan. 1945 .
-East Prussia Op. w/2 Shock Army. Feb. 1945 .
-Gdansk , Mar. 1945 .
-Berlin Op , Apr. 1945 .
-Rostock , May. 1945 .

-"Rechitsa" twice Order of Red Banner , Orders of Suvorov , Kutusov , Bogdan Khmelnitskiy .

His unit was destroyed at the Dzerzhinsky Tractor Factory, and he survived! What a beast! I'll bet that guy had a lot of very interesting stories to tell.

[David]

Stalingrad.

[ericfg]

One doesn't often see a typed, '43 award doc. At least in my experience.

[David]

Soldier Vasily Bedtsy, 22 September 1943, 204th Commander oatb??? , Colonel Selishchev

[Auke]

The soldier's name seems to be Vasily Nikolayevich Bely. The doc was signed by the commander of the 204th Independent Motor-Transport Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Selishchev.

[David]

Defense of Kiev.

[Auke]

Issued to Nikolai Fyodorovich Krivenkov on June 20, 1962 and signed by the military commissar of the city of Mogilyov, Colonel Vanyushin.

[Bill Garvy]

- Defense of Stalingrad Medal document, awarded on June 4th, 1943 to Guards Captain Grigory Iosifovich Moskalenko, stamped by the 295th Guards Artillery Regiment, and signed by Guards Major Sokolov, Serial #A29708.

[Bill Garvy]

Document for the Medal and Medal for the Defense of the Soviet Arctic awarded to Medical Service Senior Sergeant Polina Dmitrievna Leushchina(?) on June 10th, 1945 by the Chief Surgeon, Mobile Field Hospital #732, Medical Service Major Mitushin, Serial #B045110.