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Here comes his second award - Red Banner. This time is for real action and shooting down some German planes. I'll try to post citation this evening, now have to go and celebrate Easter.

Sorry about that red clover mark. This way I mark all images, that I have made personally on my scanner. I receive lots of images every day with an email, sometimes dozens a day. And to distinguish my images from the others I use this kind of marking.

Hi Gerd, Yes, the group is complete and nothing is missing. I'll add more pictures soon, maybe this evening. It takes me some time to reduce the size of the images and translate award citations Best regards, Andrew.

Award citation for Red Star Name: Kravtsov Dmitrij Afanasyevich Military Rank: Leitenant (corresponding to 2nd leitenant in US Military Forces). Position: 172nd mixed air regiment, pilot Born: 1918 Nationality: Belorus In Red Army: since 1939 Party membership: member of VLKSM (Young Communist League) since 1939 Participation in war: in Great Patriotic War since February 1942 Wounds or contusions: none Previous awards: not awarded before From what Military Registration Office was recruited: entered voluntarily in a pilots school Home address: Mogilevsky oblast, Kostrikovsky region, village Zelenkovitchi Short description of merits: During his military career accomplished 49 battle sorties, mostly for aerial reconnaissance of enemy troops locations and for photographing of enemy's front lines. While in recon missions, always finds weak points in enemy defence lines and releases his bomb-load on those points, eliminating enemy infantry units. On a period from July 10 to July 15, 1942 participated in field operations of the units of 43rd Army. He was bombing villages Stepaniki, Zhary and collective-farm "Krasnij Octyabr" ("Red October"). Deserves a state award - order of Red Star. Commander of 172nd mixed air regiment Podpolkovnik (Lt. Colonel) Kogrushev Political commissar of 172nd mixed air regiment Senior Battalion Commissar Kubarev August 3, 1942 (to be continued)

Red Star reverse.

His first award - obverse.

Second page.

Hello everyone, Nice to meet you I'm a freshman here. Want to show an interesting group of military aviator, who was awarded with two Red Banners and some other amazing awards. Sorry for my English, this is not my native language. First is an Order Book.