Rank: Lieutenant. Subdivision: 46th Rifle Division (2nd formation). Military ID: series L, N 35197, Infantry, VUS 1, Lieutenant, reserve, 3rd grade, Communist party since , party card N 4972502. Service: March 1941 - March 1942: Head of the Quaternary service, evacuation unit N 3044, Yaroslavl; March 1942 - November 1942: Private Separate Sapper Battalion of the 53rd Army; November 1942 - March 1943: cadet of the Military-Political School in Ivanovo, certificate series ХН-000001, No. 78202, awarded the rank of Lieutenant; March 1943 - October 1943 in the reserve of Gorky; October 1943 - January 1944 - Platoon Commander of the 698th Infantry Regiment of the 46th Infantry Division; November 1944 - October 1945: Head of the Quaternary maintenance unit, 321st Escort Regiment of the NKVD. Participation in the Great Patriotic War with Germany: March 1942 - November 1942: private, 11th Separate Engineer Battalion of the 53rd Army of the North-Western Front; October 1943 - April 1944: Platoon Commander, 698th Infantry Regiment, 46th Infantry Division, 2nd Baltic Front. On 10/10/1945 he was released with the rank of Lieutenant. Injuries: Pustoshka, Pskov Region: severe wound from a firearm in his right arm on January 9, 1944. Information about the wound: "In the battles for the Soviet Motherland, Lieutenant of the 698th Rifle Regiment Comrade Ivan Davydovich Penkin was seriously wounded on January 18, 1944. Diagnosis: a through bullet wound of the right elbow joint and damage to the radius. Command unit 23841, Major of Medical Services, Lokshin. _x000D_ He was treated from 18.04.1944 to 27.05.1944. On 07/25/1944 a severe blind injury by a grenade fragment to the right hand with damage to the third finger and right elbow joint, No. 3044. Wound certificate: “In the battles for the Soviet Motherland, Lieutenant of the 469th Rifle Regiment Comrade Penkin Ivan Davydovich was on July 25, 1944. seriously wounded: a grenade fragment of the right hand with damage to the third finger and the right elbow joint. Head of the evacuation hospital 3044. Nekrasovskoye village. He was undergoing treatment from August 6, 1944 to August 29, 1944 ”.