Demin Boris Andreevich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: In October 1940, Boris Demin became a cadet of the 301st tank battalion and studied to become a medium tank commander, and from October 1941 to December 1944 at the front he was a t-26 and T-34 tank commander in various tank brigades. The crew of Boris Demin's tank received its first baptism of fire at the very beginning of the war on June 29, 1941, behind Velikiye Luki, near the Leningrad-Kiev highway. "...an armored car appeared from the forest opening on the highway. Black swastikas spasmodically wriggled their spider legs on the armor, on the frontal shield-an unnaturally lean lion with a greedily gaping mouth. "So that's what the gate," thought Boris, and gave abruptly, the command " armor-piercing!". - Yes! - Fire!The first shell passed higher. The fascists opened fire randomly ,but the second sight was accurate: the armored car flashed a torch....One by one, Soviet tankers sent deadly projectiles into the forehead of the crawling fascist tanks and armored vehicles, shouting-for the Motherland! During the fighting in 1944 from his gun Demin BA destroyed 7 guns and 1 mortar battery, five machine-gun batteries, machine-gunned 2 enemy anti-tank guns and 2 machine guns, three vehicles and 200 enemy soldiers and officers. On a light tank, Boris Demin fought with the enemy on the fronts at the beginning of the great Patriotic war, stood guard at the borders with Manchuria, where selected Japanese samurai troops were waiting for the signal to attack. As part of the Korsun red banner tank regiment of the troops of the First Baltic front, the is tank, where the gun commander was guard Sergeant Boris Demin, approached the city of shauliai in January 1945. The troops Of the third Belorussian front were part of Prussia. A powerful wedge of our tank troops dismembered the Hitlerite troops and in Libava there was a hundred thousand enemy group in the cauldron. The command set the regiments the task of destroying the Nazi troops locked in a mousetrap. In these battles, the personal account of the gun commander Boris Demin recorded the destruction of two heavy and five medium tanks - "tigers"and " Panthers". "