Podpolkovnik Pavel Kamnev

includes one Podpolkovnik Pavel Kamnev Company Command team & one Medium base.

I will always remember that day, the day that Podpolkovnik Pavel Kamnev and his men charged. The air was crisp, cold. The morning sun just beginning to embrace the world. We were caught off guard by an attacking German half-track company. Their machine guns and troops were ripping though our forward defences. The men started to panic, but not Kamnev, not our fearless hero.

He was on his horse calling to the men to mount up and join him. Join his charge. I heard his call and so did most of the men there, finding our horses we followed Pavel Kamnev into hell. Kamnev moved with grace and skill cutting down the German troops. His sword danced as it leapt from one target to the next, never missing never failing.

I did not see him fall, none of us did we just pressed on the attack until the Fascists were cut down or fled the battle field. Only four men survived the charge. I only wished that I could have joined my fellow brothers in their glory, but it wasn’t my time. Though I followed Kamnev’s fearless charge I was not able to join him and his men in glory.

- Leytenant I I Ivanovich.

Leytenant I I Ivanovich died a few weeks later leading his own men in a charge to take out a heavy machine-gun nest. Without his bravery and success on that day, the battle would have been lost. The men who were close to Lt. I I Ivanovich said that his final wish was fulfilled and that he surely joined Pavel Kamnev and his brave men in glory.

In 1942, at the age of 60, Podpolkovnik Pavel Kamnev of the Krasnodar oblast was awarded the Order of Lenin for his bravery.

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