P. I. Shpetny, a Hero of the Soviet Union

The platoon of anti-tank riflemen under the command of senior lieutenant Pavel Ivanovich Shpetny was deployed at height 226.6. Seven tanks of the SS Panzer Division Totenkopf approached their trenches. Six were knocked down by Shpetny’s platoon, and the final one was destroyed by the senior lieutenant, who threw himself under the machine with two antitank bombs. P. I. Shpetny was made a Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously.