Branch of troops: Ground forces_x000D_ Petrov Prokopiy Eremeevich was drafted to war in 20th of June 1942. Four soldiers left their Yakut kolkhoz that day to the war, and only our grandfather returned. The rest also had a hard time during the wartime, people were starving. His father-in-law, wife and four children accompanied him to the war, and when he returned, he found his three orphans in a house of a stranger. _x000D_ He did not like to talk about the war. Our father remembered only a few cases told to him by his grandfather. Here is one of them: _x000D_ During the attack, Procopius was wounded and remained on the battlefield. Night was approaching, it was already dark. And in this darkness the Germans began wandering across the field and look for alive soldiers, finishing them off. Grandfather prepared the last bullet for himself. And then a whisper was heard at night: “Is somebody alive here?” The grandfather shouted: “I am here, comrade!” _x000D_ It was a big Russian orderly. He crawled to my grandfather, put him on his shoulders and ran zigzags across the field. The Germans fired after them, and they could see the bullets flying in the dark. But still, not a single bullet hit them, and the grandfather was saved. _x000D_ My grandfather fought in the army of Rokossovsky, in the infantry, reached Konigsberg, where he was seriously wounded. His military unit went further west, participated in the capture of Berlin. After the capture of Berlin, the front-line friends came for him to the hospital and took him to Berlin. This is how a Yakut from a small taiga settlement visited the capital of occupied Germany. _x000D_ My grandfather said that there were five front-line friends: a Tatar (he was the Senior in rank), a Russian, a Yakut, a Tajik and someone else. Unfortunately, many details have already been forgotten. When, after defeating Germany, they arrived in Moscow, they were told that their unit was being sent to the Japanese front. _x000D_ So my grandfather returned home only in the fall of 1945. My grandfather had several medals:“For Courage”, “For Military Merit”, “For Capture of Konigsberg”, “For Victory over Germany”, “For Victory over Japan”, but they were all lost. We have found some information about his awards on the Internet. My poor grandfather passed away in 1958 without seeing a single grandchild.