The biography of Smirnov is clear
Viktor Miroshnichenko’s birthday, one old people go into battle - the “Kom Regiment”, Ata Baty, the soldiers went - “Garbuzenko” Day of memory of Sergei Filippov Zaychik - “The Director of the theater” Military Biography of Alexei Smirnov, he did not like to recall the war and never trumped his fighting merits. Only the closest people knew about his heroic military past. From Smirnov’s personal file: he commanded a firing platoon in a mortar regiment, he went from an ordinary to the lieutenant.
Two orders of fame are the 2nd and 3rd degree, the Order of the Red Star, the medal "For Courage" and "For Military Merit". In total, Alexei Makarovich Smirnov had 11 combat an awards of excerpts from award sheets: “On April 9, in the area of the village of Pilyava, after powerful arties, two enemy battalions, with the support of 13 tanks, went on the attack. Smirnov with a platoon opened a powerful mortar fire at the German infantry.
In this battle, the platoon fire was destroyed: 4 easel and 2 light machine guns, fascist soldiers and officers. The Germans' counterattack was repelled ”“ To the order on the Third Artillery Division of September 15: on July 20, in the area of altitude, the enemy up to 40 Nazis attacked the battery. Comrade Smirnov, inspiring the fighters rushed into battle and repelled the attack of the Germans.
He personally captured 7 Nazis. Comrade Smirnov A. commander of the mortar regiment Saltsyn. " He received the second Order of Glory for a fight near the village of Pondashevitsa. Again there was a German attack, hand -to -hand combat and mean lines in a reward sheet: “Comrade Smirnov rushed to the Germans with three fighters and personally killed three Nazis from a machine gun and captured two.
From where the fire from the mortar destroyed 2 machine -gun points in the village of Eichenrid and up to 20 Nazis. After a long treatment in the hospital, he was commissed out of the army. Persons of the ordinary and sergeant composition of the Red Army are awarded, and in aviation and persons with the title of junior lieutenant. He was awarded only for personal merits, military units and formations were not awarded to them.
The Order of Glory, in its statute and color, almost completely repeated one of the most revered awards in pre -revolutionary Russia - the St. George Cross. The Order of Glory has three degrees, of which the highest degree - gold, and II and III - silver in the second degree, the central medallion was gilded.
These insignia could be issued for a personal feat on the battlefield, issued in a strict sequence - from the lower degree to the highest.