WWII Soviet Order Great Patriotic War II Class OPWII Guards Gunner Kurland 1945 for Sale

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WWII Soviet Order Great Patriotic War II Class OPWII Guards Gunner Kurland 1945 For Sale

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WWII Soviet Order Great Patriotic War II Class OPWII Guards Gunner Kurland 1945:
$295.75

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Guards Anti Tank Gunner - Wins the OPWII for destroying two enemy machine gun nests with Anti Tank Gun killing up to twenty enemy soldiers and officers. Supressed a mortar group and machine gun positions and dispersed the enemy during a battle on HILL 607 - 10.4.1945.

Unit - Battery Gun Commander, 46th Guards Red Banner Regiment, 20 Rifle Division

Unit History in the Baltics

As of July 8 1944 the 46th Guards was located just west of Polotsk, while most of its Army had advanced as far as Sharkawshchyna. By August 1 the division had caught up with 6th Guards Army and had crossed the border into Lithuania, into the vicinity of Rokiškis. By the second week of September it was under command of 4th Shock Army in the area of Biržai. In early October the division returned to 6th Guards Army and was advancing north of Šiauliai towards the Latvian capital.

For its part in the liberation of Riga, on October 22 the 46th Guards was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. Since September it had been subordinated to the 22nd Guards Rifle Corps,

The division remained in Latvia for the duration of the war helping to contain and reduce the former Army Group North in the Courland peninsula. Maj. Gen. Valerii Ivanovich Savchuk took command of the division from Colonel Vasilev on November 23 and remained in this post for the duration. In February 1945 the 46th Guards returned to 10th Guards Army with the 22nd Guards Corps but a month later it and the Corps was back in 6th Guards Army, now in Leningrad Front as part of the Kurland Group of Forces.

The division was disbanded in July.

Good IssuedConditionas Photographed with typical light wear as seen. A Nice Candidate for any Period Collection, Impression, or Display -Recent Estate Collection Acquisition & Presented as Acquired

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