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On March 20, the 313th Rifle Division received a combat mission - with the 751st Light Artillery Regiment, the 884th Anti-tank Artillery Regiment, in cooperation with the 40th Tank Brigade, to attack in the direction of the city of Klein-Katz and capture it.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, after artillery preparation, the regiments of the division went on the offensive. The 1st Battalion of the 1070th Infantry Regiment (battalion commander Major A.A. Fedorov), acting as a tank landing force, started a battle on the western outskirts of the village of Klein-Katz, from the south it was attacked by the 40th Tank Brigade 3 planted on tanks 1st battalion of the 1072nd regiment.

The enemy offered fierce resistance. Here he applied the method of defense characteristic of forest combat. He created a kind of fire bag in the Gross-Katz area. The settlement itself was not engaged by the enemy and was covered from the front only by a small group of infantry. The main forces of the defending enemy were concentrated on the adjacent heights.

As soon as our tanks with the landing of the 1070th and 1072nd rifle regiments broke through the hollow into the settlement, the enemy opened from the heights the destroying fire of machine guns and artillery. The infantry of the Nazis was supported by artillery, two armored trains and warships.

The battle for Gross Katz went on all day. The 1st battalion of the 1070th regiment, despite significant losses, defeated the defending enemy and by the end of the day reached the eastern outskirts of Gross-Katz, where they entrenched themselves at the reached line. For courage, courage and skillful command of the unit, the commander of the 1st battalion of the 1070th rifle regiment, Major A. A. Fedorov, was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky.

At 19:00, the enemy, numbering up to 200 people, counterattacked the 2nd battalion of the 1068th rifle regiment. The counterattack was repulsed. The enemy lost 120 people killed, 10 soldiers were taken prisoner.

In these battles, the commander of the gun of the 57-mm battery of the 1072nd Infantry Regiment, Sergeant Pyotr Zorikhin, fought heroically with the enemy. From a height, an enemy tank opened fire on the infantry of the 3rd battalion. Zorikhin saw the fascist car and quickly aimed the gun at the target.

The tank stood side by side with the gun. With the first shot, Zorikhin almost did not cause any harm to the tank. The second shell hit the motor group. "Tiger" smoked. The crew that jumped out of the tank was shot by our infantry. Zorikhin was wounded twice, but remained at the gun.

Enemy submachine gunners prevented the advance of the 1st platoon of the 3rd rifle company. Hiding behind stone buildings, they fired at our advancing fighters. Abdurakhman Marov was ordered to move to the left and destroy the Nazis with the fire of his heavy machine gun from the flank. Disguising himself behind a bush, Marov quickly set up a machine gun and fired a burst at the Nazis. Three fascists fell dead to the ground. At the same moment, Marov's calculation was fired upon from the attic by the Nazis. The second number of the calculation was killed.

Ah, bastards! - Marov said angrily. - Get it! - He fired a long burst at the dormer window, and the enemy machine gunners fell silent forever. Changing the firing position, Marov saw two Nazis who were hiding behind a fence. With two short bursts he destroyed them, but he himself was wounded. Only in this battle he exterminated eight Nazis.

On March 21, from the very morning, the enemy launched several counterattacks, trying to disrupt our offensive. Fulfilling the previously assigned combat mission, the division with the same reinforcements at 12 noon went on the offensive and by noon the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the 1070th regiment reached the railway, the 1072nd regiment attacked height 160.8 in the morning, but unsuccessfully.

At 12:30 on March 21, when the soldiers of Lieutenant Yakov Nechepurenko exchanged views on past battles, and the headquarters of the 1072nd regiment bowed over the map, divisional commander V.A. Asafiev and regiment commander V. f. Babenko. The division commander circled the height with a pencil and said:

Take this height, and the city will be ours!

The Nazis fortified themselves at a height that allowed them to keep the nearest approaches to the city of Gdynia under concentrated and aimed mortar and rifle-machine-gun fire.
The height was surrounded by three lines of trenches, a wide and deep anti-tank ditch, wire fences in three stakes, Bruno's spiral. On the right, the approaches to the height were poured with fire from a bunker by a German heavy machine gun.

You can't go up to the top. This morning, soldiers of the 1st Battalion of Major Korablin of the 1072nd Regiment attacked the height several times from their extremely unfavorable positions, but to no avail. The commander of the regiment, Colonel V.F. Babenko, set the task for the scouts of Lieutenant Nechepurenko to be the first to break through to the heights.

Major Korablin Vasily Vasilyevich warned Lieutenant Nechepurenko:

We will operate without the support of artillery, the distance between us and the front line of fascist trenches is 50 meters.

In battle, the entire calculation of the easel machine gun was disabled. Major Korablin himself lay down next to the machine gun. Nechepurenko took grenades in both hands. Scouts Borisov, Kopylov, Makarov, Kozyrev, Rudalev and Mindalov were also armed with grenades.

The rest of the soldiers and scouts of the Korablin battalion opened heavy automatic fire on the enemy trenches from the spot. Lieutenant Nechepurenko led his fighters on the attack. With one jerk, without taking a breath, they reached the barbed wire. Scout Mindalov lay down on the wire, Nechepurenko and the others stepped over him into the trench.

The Germans bombarded them with grenades. Everything around was burning and smoking from explosions, fragments of grenades whistled and buzzed. Several more scouts broke through to Lieutenant Nechepurenko. The squad leader, Sergeant Kopylov, scouts Platov and Semin crawled towards the bunker. The ship kept hitting and hitting its embrasure, and the German machine gun fell silent for several minutes. Semin and Platov got close to the bunker.

Suddenly, the enemy's firing point came to life, and Platov was wounded by the first burst of the enemy. But Semin was already near the embrasure. One after another, grenades flew into the bunker. Breaks. Silence. And Lieutenant Nechepurenko and his fighters were already knocking the Germans out of the third trench. Arrows followed the scouts. At the top of the height, among the corpses of the Nazis, the bloody, but alive and vigorous Nechepurenko ordered the intelligence officer Mindalov:

To the colonel! Fast! Let's say we're on top. Height 160.8 was taken. At the foot of the height lay a large city.

In this battle, heroism and courage were shown by the commander of the reconnaissance squad of Karelians Vasily Fedorovich Kopylov from the village of Vekhkuselga, Olonets region of Karelia. With two scouts, he broke into the second trench of the enemy. Suddenly, a fascist officer jumped on him. With a strong blow, Kopylov knocked out a pistol from him and captured the officer.

Moving along the trenches, the scouts saw that up to 20 Nazis were running across them. At Kopylov's command, the scouts opened heavy automatic fire, destroyed nine Nazis, the rest fled into the forest. In this battle, Sergeant Kopylov personally destroyed five German soldiers.

The enemy, with frequent counterattacks, tried to delay the advance of the division's units. A company of fascist soldiers went to the location of the headquarters of the 1070th regiment and attacked the special forces and the headquarters. The regimental chief of staff, Major M. B. Zak, raised the staff officers, signalmen and security platoon and led them in a counterattack. The Nazis could not stand the bold counterattack of the headquarters officers and special forces and fled, leaving 20 dead and several wounded. 16 Nazi soldiers were captured in this battle.

The 2nd and 3rd battalions of the 1070th regiment during the day of the battle repulsed four enemy counterattacks with heavy losses for him. The enemy was thrown back to the starting line.

On March 22, the division was to develop an offensive against the city of Klein-Katz. But in the path of the offensive of our units lay a height of 120.7 heavily fortified by the enemy. The division commander, Colonel V. A. Asafiev, decided: with the 1068th Infantry Regiment and the 3rd Battalion of the 1072nd Infantry Regiment, surround the height, defeat the enemy defending the height, and then develop an offensive on Klein-Katz.

During the night, units of the division made a detour maneuver and by the morning of March 22, they fought back to their starting position for the offensive, completing the encirclement of the height. The 2nd and 3rd battalions of the 1070th regiment continued their offensive in an easterly direction for an hour from 7 to 8 in the morning, repelled two counterattacks of the Nazis, up to two companies each.

The 1068th Rifle Regiment and the 3rd Battalion of the 1072nd Regiment, having subjected Hill 120.7 to a powerful fire raid, went over to the attack at 11 o'clock and, after a fierce battle for three hours, took the hill by storm, defeating the defending enemy garrison. The enemy suffered losses of up to 300 people killed and wounded.
In the battles for mastering the height, soldiers and sergeants showed mass heroism.

German counterattacks followed one after another. The Nazis, despite the losses, sought to knock down our fighters from a tactically important height that covered the approaches to the city. Junior sergeant of the 8th company of the 1068th regiment, Nikolai Khlyupta, with three soldiers moved forward, towards the counterattacking chains of enemy soldiers. The enemy noticed the brave men and made an attempt to capture them.

Heavy fire from a company of German cutthroats fell on four brave warriors. A group of fascists led by an officer began to make their way to the rear of our soldiers. Two of our soldiers were killed and one seriously wounded. The enemy ring was shrinking around Nikolai Khlyupt.

Rus, Hyundai Hoh! - shouted the Nazis.

Khlyupta fired from a machine gun in all directions at the Germans surrounding him. There were no cartridges in his machine gun. There were no cartridges in the machine guns of his comrades who were disabled. The fascist officer was already at his side. He held a pistol in his hand, but did not shoot, he was already triumphing over an unarmed Russian soldier.

Behind the officer ran five fascist submachine gunners. Junior Sergeant Khlyupta grabbed a German light machine gun lying on the ground and smashed the skull of a fascist officer with his butt. Having fallen on the corpse of an officer, Khlyupta snatched a pistol from his hand and shot the enemy submachine gunners running towards him point-blank.

Platoon soldiers ran up to Nikolai, 16 corpses of the Nazis lay around him. At this point, the squad leader was put out of action. Junior Sergeant Nikolai Khlyupta took command of the squad and led the fighters into the attack. Height remained in our hands. Among the first, Nikolai Khlyupta broke into the city of Gdynia. Heroes was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

Commander Captain Pligunov ordered Pekshuev's machine-gun crew to cover the regrouping of the battalion. At a time when the 6th company of the 2nd battalion of the 1070th regiment withdrew from their positions, the Germans launched a counterattack.

Five times the Nazis came close to the position of our machine gunners and five times, thrown back by deadly fire, rolled back. Then they pulled up a cannon for direct fire and at the same time opened mortar fire on the position of the machine gunners. Shells and mines showered the position of machine gunners with a hail of shrapnel. The entire calculation was disabled.

Only the wounded gunner Pekshuev remained at the machine gun. The Germans went on the attack again. They approached the calculation position at 30-40 meters and disabled the machine gun with a thrown grenade. The Nazis began to bypass the Pekshuev trench.

“Rus, give up! Rus, captivity! they shouted frantically to Pekshuev.

In response to their cries, Pekshuev threw four grenades one after the other. Eight fascists were killed, the rest retreated. The Nazi attack was repulsed. They left only twenty corpses dead on the battlefield.

During March 21, southwest of KOENIGSBERG, the troops of the 3rd BELARUSIAN Front continued fighting to destroy the East Prussian group of Germans and, moving towards the coast of the FRISCH-GAF Bay, occupied the settlements of BOLBITTEN, STUTENEN, NEVEKKEN, GRUNAU, RADAU, ALT-PASSARGE. According to additional data, in the battles for the city of BROWNSBERG, the troops of the front captured the following trophies: tanks - 204, armored personnel carriers - 25, mortars - 109, machine guns - 204, cars - 1,050, steam locomotives - 5, railway cars - 633, warehouses with various military equipment - 17.

In the Danzig direction, as a result of offensive battles, our troops occupied the settlements of Mühlbanz, Koling, KLADAU, IETAU, ZALAU, KLEIN-BELKAU, NIEDER-PRANGENAU, BISSAU, GROSS-KATZ. On March 20, our troops captured more than 600 German soldiers and officers in this area.

In the BRESLAU area, fighting continued to destroy the enemy grouping surrounded in the city.

On March 20, 176 German tanks were hit and destroyed on all fronts. In air battles and anti-aircraft artillery fire, 69 enemy aircraft were shot down.

The raid of our aviation on the Veszprem railway junction in Hungary

On the night of March 21, our heavy bombers attacked the Veszprem railway junction in Hungary. As a result of the bombardment, fires broke out on the site, accompanied by explosions.

Actions of aviation of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet

On March 19, aviation of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet sunk: in the port of Pil-lau - three German transports with a displacement of 5 to 6 thousand tons each and in the area of Bornholm Island - two German transports with a displacement of 10 to 12 thousand tons each and one enemy patrol ship.

Southwest of Koenigsberg, the troops of the 3rd Belorussian Front continued to fight to eliminate the enemy's East Prussian Group of Forces. Despite this, the advancing Soviet units were persistently moving forward, destroying enemy centers of resistance. Pressed against the Frisch-Gaff on a narrow coastal strip, the remnants of the defeated German formations fiercely resist. In the area of \u200b\u200bthe settlement of Bolbitten, the German infantry, supported by tanks and self-propelled guns, launched several counterattacks. Our units repelled enemy counterattacks and, moving forward, occupied Bolbitten. Particularly fierce fighting takes place in the area of the city of Heiligenbeil. The enemy has concentrated tanks, self-propelled guns, field artillery here and is stubbornly defending the approaches to the city from the south. The Soviet units advancing north along the Banau River broke the resistance of the Germans and captured heavily fortified positions. There are battles for crossings over the Iarft River, covering the city of Heiligenbeil from the south. At the same time, our other units drove the Germans out of the heavily fortified strongholds of Grunau and Radau and reached the Braunsberg-Heiligenbeil railway. Relying on the fortifications built at the railroad embankment, the Nazis tried to detain the Soviet troops at this line. Our infantrymen broke through the German defenses with a swift attack in a number of sectors. The troops of the front, advancing along the coast of Frisch-Gaff to the east, crossed the Passarge River at its mouth and occupied the coastal settlement of Alt-Passarge. Our artillery shells the ports and wharves that are in the hands of the enemy day and night. During the day of fighting, more than 4 thousand German soldiers and officers were exterminated, 26 tanks and 60 enemy guns were destroyed. Our troops captured many trophies and prisoners.

On the Danzig direction, our troops fought offensive battles. Southwest of Danzig, the Soviet units broke through two lines of enemy trenches and occupied the Klein-Belkau stronghold, located 10 kilometers from Danzig. Fierce fighting took place in the area of the large settlement of Gross-Katz. The enemy had strong fortifications in this area. The Nazis, supported by fire from warships and armored trains, offered desperate resistance. Our infantrymen, tankers and artillerymen overcame several lines of trenches, anti-tank ditches, minefields and broke into Gross-Katz. The enemy garrison, having suffered heavy losses in stubborn street battles, retreated in disarray. The Soviet units captured Gross-Katz, an important German defense center located 4 kilometers from the coast of the Danzig Bay. During the day, several thousand enemy soldiers and officers, 25 tanks, 54 guns, 5 armored personnel carriers and one enemy armored train were destroyed.

Our aviation, despite the unfavorable weather, carried out bombing and assault strikes against enemy troops, military installations and ships. Soviet pilots destroyed several tanks, 120 vehicles, sank a boat and 3 barges. A large ammunition depot was blown up in the port of Gdynia.

Our heavy bombers today again attacked enemy military targets in the city of Breslau. As a result of the bombardment, fires broke out, among which 5 strong explosions were noted.

In the defensive battles that recently took place in the area northeast of Lake Balaton, Soviet soldiers showed high combat skill and selfless courage. The battery of self-propelled guns of senior lieutenant Kocherga, having entered into battle with 14 German tanks, burned and knocked out 8 enemy tanks. In a night battle, a group of Germans attacked the wounded company commander, Lieutenant Bakhrushin. The Red Army soldier Solodky hurried to the rescue of his commander. The brave fighter shot three Nazis, and stabbed two with a bayonet. Solodky delivered the lieutenant safely to the medical center. Guards Red Army soldier Ivan Skorodumov, when repulsing an enemy attack, jumped onto a German tank, which had an open hatch. The guardsman interrupted the German tankers with a burst from the machine gun and brought the tank to his unit.

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