Gnarovskaya, Valeria Osipovna

Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger

Date of birth:: October 18th, 1923
Date of death:: September 23rd, 1943
Nationality:: Soviet

Biography

Heroine of the Soviet Union

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Medal "Za otvagu"

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: medical instructor, private
Unit:: 907th Infantry Regiment, 244th Infantry Division, 12th Army, Southwestern Front
Awarded on:: 1942

"Received for exclusive courage in saving from the battlefields of more than 300 wounded soldiers and officers. During the battles she personally killed 28 German Fascist soldiers."

Medal "Zolotaya Zvezda" (Geroi Sovetskogo Soyuza)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:: June 2nd, 1944

On September 23, 1943, in the battle near the village of Ivanenki of Zaporozhye region of Ukraine, 19-years old Valeria Gnarovskaya sacrificed her life defending the Regiment headquarters and field hospital. In order to shield the wounded, she rushed with a grenades in her hand under one of two approaching German tanks "Tiger". Another tank was destroyed by the soldiers. The German attack has been stopped.

Posthumously awarded