Rank: Senior Lieutenant Type of Troops: Coastal Defense and Air Defense Artillery, Coastal Units, Aviation of the RKKF and the Naval Forces of the NKVD Border Troops My father Hondo Ilya Solomonovich was born on March 10, 1914 in the small Crimean town of Karasubazar, now - Belogorsk. In 1935 he graduated from the Pedagogical Institute, worked as a physics teacher, school director. During active service in 1938 he received a military education in the field of radio engineering and was certified with the rank of junior lieutenant in the reserve. He participated in the Second World War in communication units of the Black Sea Fleet Air Force from the first days of the war, was the commander of a radio company, a communication company of the Black Sea Fleet Air Force, providing radio communications for flight units at the airfields of the Crimea and the Caucasus. From the scanty lines of the surviving award lists, I learned that my father was in charge of the combat work of the signalmen: "in the conditions of fierce bombing, he ensured the uninterrupted operation of radio facilities, without loss of personnel and equipment, he organized relocation to the Caucasus. Having extensive experience in training communications specialists, he formed a communications company and managed in a short period of time to train more than a hundred qualified signalmen, who, until the last day of the defense of Sevastopol, served the flight units. During the period of the most active operation of enemy aviation in Novorossiysk and Anapa, he personally went to the communication line for direct command of the personnel.In August 1942, during the defense of Novorossiysk, when the electric line communication of the Black Sea Fleet Air Force operational group and the command post of the 62nd Air Division with airfields was systematically disrupted , excellently provided radio communication and at the same time found underground telephone cables through Novorossiysk, thereby ensuring continuous stable communication with the Cape Khako, Gaiduk and others airfields. At the Gelendzhik airfield, he provided excellent communications for the combat missions of the 13th Red Banner Guards Aviation Regiment to destroy enemy ships during the liberation of the Crimea and Sevastopol from the Nazi invaders. "