Kostyuk, Jozef S.

Date of birth:: April 14th, 1919 (Zhytomyr region, Ukraine)
Date of death:: March 17th, 1981 (Novohrad-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
Buried on:: Military Cemetery Novohrad-Volynskyi
Nationality:: Soviet

Biography

First Lieutenant Jozef Kostyuk served in the Red Army from October 1939. He commanded the 267th Tank Battalion and was injured twice during the Second World War. Jozef Kostyuk was put in reserve in 1949 and died on 17 March 1981.

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Medal "Zolotaya Zvezda" (Geroi Sovetskogo Soyuza)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: leytenant (First Lieutenant)
Unit:: 267-ya tankovyy batalon, 23-ya tankovaya brigada, 9-ya tankovyy korpus (267th Tank Battalion, 23th Tank Brigade, 9th Tank Corps)
Awarded on:: February 27th, 1945

For destroying two tanks, four mechanized guns, 22 anti tank guns, 127 vehicles and "hundreds of soldiers" near Opoczno in January 1945.

No. 7250

Orden Lenina

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: leytenant (First Lieutenant)
Unit:: 267-ya tankovyy batalon, 23-ya tankovaya brigada, 9-ya tankovyy korpus (267th Tank Battalion, 23th Tank Brigade, 9th Tank Corps)
Awarded on:: February 27th, 1945