Rank: Lieutenant Branch of troops: Land forces, air forces (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border guards. There were unwritten laws at the front line: the title of Hero of the Soviet Union to a military pilot was represented for the downed 20-25 enemy aircraft, and to the scout of an infantry unit - for capturing of 15-20 prisoners for interrogation. But actually just a few people know that during the Great Patriotic war, the commander of the intelligence platoon, retired Lieutenant Ivan Petrovich Galaktionov, also became famous. During a battle he participated in, about a hundred Nazis were captured. The command of the regiment in which he served documented that this was the case. Heroic deed of Galaktionov was marked by orders of the Red Banner, the Red Star, two orders of the Patriotic War 1st degree, order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree, many medals and commendations of commandment. He and his scouts repeatedly had to cross the enemy's line of defense in order to get to its rear. He prepared for those raids very carefully, considering plans of operations together with his soldiers thoroughly and with all possible details. As an example he mentioned the following ocasion: there were fierece battles in Romania. Once in the evening he got a call from the regimental commander who mentioned that the division was in a great need of a prisoner for interrogation. Before that all the aces of the divisional intelligence been to the enemies rear but their attempts failed. Ivan Petrovich promised the division commander to get such a valuable prisoner and told him his name. The platoon completed the task. All participants of the raidwere awarded orders. Galaktionov had many similar cases. Quite often Ivan Petrovich had to be in the very heat of a battle, that is why he was wounded and shell-shocked. For hours he was lying on the snow, in the swamp, and all in order to learn more about the enemy, to help the infantrymen and gunners. Until the very end of the war, he regularly carried out harsh and dangerous service, selflessly worked for the common Victory. He went to war as a volunteer at the age of 17 and lived a long life after the Victory. He passed away in 1997.