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August 9th, 1943 anti-tank riflemen Sergeant Lysenko entered into combat with fifteen German tanks and got out of it a winner.
In the first half of August 1943 the 27th Army of the Voronezh Front successfully advancing on Akhtyrsky direction. The enemy now and then counterattacked, using pre-defined boundaries in the depth of the defense.
... 600th Infantry Regiment Lieutenant Colonel Sokolov went to the line Kirikovka - old Rowan, where he met strong resistance of the Panzer-Grenadier Division "Great Germany" Lieutenant-General Walter Hёrnlayna. Three days of fierce fighting did not stop. Attack the enemy followed one after another. The Germans tried at all costs to return Kirikovku in which they had left a lot of all kinds of equipment, ammunition depots, even tanks on the railway platforms and a large camp of Russian prisoners. Tanks to the place of fighting the Germans hauled by rail, shooting them with the platform and immediately thrown into battle against our infantry.
Here in these battles and became famous for Kirikovku tank destroyer assistant platoon commander of anti-tank guns of the 2nd infantry battalion Sergeant Ivan Lysenko. Being armed with anti-tank gun (MFR) and hand grenades, he took the fight with fifteen German tanks.
Knowing well their vulnerabilities, Lysenko from the first shot knocked two cars. The third tank had to beat from close range. Tank torn inside, but the explosion of anti-tank riflemen shell-shocked and hurt by shrapnel PTR.
When a brave soldier awoke, he saw to it already crawling another tank that is about to crush him. The only escape was to climb on the car bearing down on him. So Lysenko did. Tank spun in place, wanting to lose unwelcome rider, and then rushed back. When the tank is crawling through a trench, which until recently were anti-tank riflemen, Lysenko saw a dead soldier with clenched hand and clip with him PTSD. At the same moment Lysenko dropped to the bottom of the trench, took his find, and shot several times after the German. From tank fire broke out in flames and thick smoke.
Moving along the trench, Ivan Lysenko often changed positions, thereby making it difficult to maintain the ability to aim fire on it. Shots from PTSD Lysenko knocked out three enemy tanks, but he himself was wounded in the arm. But the enemy was forced to retreat.
Ivan Lysenko combat with German tanks allowed the battalion to keep the occupied part of the village Kirikovka and ensure a successful crossing of units of the regiment over the river Vorskla.
In 1944. Sergeant Ivan Timofeyevich Lysenko was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin and medal "Gold Star". After the war, the brave anti-tank riflemen demobilized from the Red Army, and the rest of his life he lived and worked in the village Shcherbinovsky Krasnodar region.




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