The Red Navy newspaper "Dozor" May 27, 1942
The Red Navy newspaper «Dozor» May 27, 1942
Краснофлотская газета «Дозор» 27. May 1942. 2 pages
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The Red Navy newspaper «Dozor» on May 27, 1942. Read and Transfer to another. Death to the German occupiers! In the issue: let's make all the guns sniper. After reading the order of Comrade Stalin, I decided to make my calculation sniper. The soldiers of my guns are experienced commandants who have repeatedly successfully repelled raids by fascist vultures. Therefore, we started classes on the processing of interchangeability and clear, coordinated actions of the whole calculation. With daily training and hard work on ourselves, we have achieved excellent results. All the commandants have studied the material part of the gun; they successfully perform the work of the other calculation numbers. Now my gun is a sniper. Without stopping at these successes, the ship’s gunners decided to make all the guns sniper. They work a lot, but we can summarize some of our activities. Young commandants, having mastered their specialty well, continue to study the construction of tools, and practice interchangeability. The best experts in the battery, comrades Golubev, Dorokhov Chekrygin, Churilov, Maslennikov, worked out their actions to automatism, well studied the material part of the guns. They practice hard and persistently, pass on their combat experience and knowledge to young fighters.
We’ll make our guns sniper, we will smash the fascist reptiles aptly, from the first salvo — such is the response of the commandants of our ship to Comrade Stalin’s May Day order. Petty Officer 2 articles Safronov.The reward is brave. We will justify the award in battlesBy order of the commander of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet, we were awarded high government awards with orders and medals of the USSR. The high award of the Motherland obliges us to beat the Nazi occupiers even harder. Being in the art of calculation, we will improve our combat training day after day, work with guns so that our shells hit the enemy from the first salvo. The successful outcome of the battle with fascist vultures depends on the timely detection of enemy aircraft. Therefore, we will conduct a signal observation watch so that not a single movement of the enemy goes unnoticed, timely notify our ship of imminent danger. We will respond to the high award with new military affairs, we will give all our strength, and if life is needed to achieve victory over the fascist horde in 1942. Captain-Lieutenant Sokolov, foreman 2 articles Gayfullin