Order of Glory
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Order of Glory, 1st cl., #2678, awarded to an artilleryman of the 5th Shock Army,
1st Belorussian Front, for the Battle of Berlin. While storming the Gestapo and
Reichs Main Security Office buildings, the Reichs Chancellery, and other key
strongholds of Berlin's Citadel, he killed 3 German snipers with small arms fire
and took out 3 Panzerfaust operators with hand-grenades. Few days earlier,
during the forced crossing of the Spree, he cleared the path for his unit by
firing his 76-mm gun over open sights and destroying several enemy machineguns,
suppressing 3 mortar batteries, and eliminating up to a platoon of infantry. The
order is in superb condition.