WWII Red Army Naval Paratrooper EKATERINA DYOMINA Hero of SU NEW Reprint Photo

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WW2 World War Two
Ekaterina Dyomina (nee Mikhailova) (1925, Leningrad - 2019, Moscow)
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medical instructor of the 369th separate battalion of the marine corps and senior medical instructor of the consolidated company of the Coastal escort detachment of the Danube military flotilla; one of the few women to serve in the Marine Corps. Hero of the Soviet Union.
By the summer of 1941, Mikhailova graduated from grade 9 and school nursing courses. In the Red Army since June 1941, she added 3 more years to her 15-year-old age.
Since January 1942, Mikhailova served on the Krasnaya Moskva military hospital, which transported the wounded from Stalingrad.
From February 1943, she became a medical instructor and naval paratrooper in the 369th Separate Marine Battalion. The battalion was part of the Azov and then the Danube military flotillas. With this battalion, Mikhailova fought along the waters and shores of the Caucasus and Crimea, the Azov and Black Seas, the Dniester and the Danube, with a liberation mission - across the land of Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Austria. Together with the battalion fighters, she entered the battle, repulsed enemy counterattacks, carried the wounded from the battlefield, and provided them with first aid. She was wounded three times.
Ekaterina Mikhailova was demobilized in November 1945.
After the war, in 1950 she graduated from the Mechnikov Leningrad Sanitary and Hygienic Institute. She got married and became, by the name of her husband, Demina. She lived in Moscow and worked as a doctor until her retirement.
She passed away on June 24, 2019 in Moscow. She was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow.
Battle rewards:
Hero of the Soviet Union
The order of Lenin
medal "Gold Star"
two Orders of the Red Banner
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree
Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree
medals, including:
"For courage"
"For the Defense of the Caucasus"
"For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945";
“For the capture of Budapest”;
"For the capture of Vienna";
For the Liberation of Belgrade;
"Veteran of labour";
Florence Nightingale Medal of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (1979)
This is a nice reproduction of an original WW2  photograph
New print on high quality Fujifilm Photo Paper (Fujicolor
Crystal Archive Paper Supreme
- Glossy paper
)
produced in a Professional Fujifilm Photographic
Laboratory
Size: 103 X 153 mm (about
4"x6")
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