Rank: Red army Branch of military: Land Forces, Air Forces (except naval aviation), Coast Guards, NKVD troops, Border Guards Division: 350th rifle Zhytomyr-Sandomierz Red Banner order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky When at the end of December 1942, Soviet troops liberated the settlement of Kalach-Kurtlak Chernyshevsky district from the invaders, Kaplin Peter Vasilyevich 1yanvarya 1943 was drafted into the red Army. At that time, he was not yet 18 years old, he just added a year to himself. Peter was a strong, brave guy who fiercely hated the fascists, so he aspired to the front. He was assigned to the 1176 rifle battalion of the 350th rifle division of the 12th army of the 3rd Ukrainian front. He served as a Red Army soldier, as a battalion commander. He took part in combat operations from July 1, 1943. Their regiment as part of the 350th rifle division took part in the Donbass offensive operation. Our troops had to cross the Seversky Donets and break through the enemy's fortified defense line. In early September 1943, the battalion, whose Komsomol member was P. V. Kaplin, was assigned the task of breaking through the enemy's defense line in the area of the village of Golaya Dolina. Fierce fighting took place in the village. Several times the same structure passed from hand to hand. There are no houses left. Equipment was on fire, soldiers were on fire ... the Naked Valley in the Soviet troops received another name "Dead Valley". During the offensive, the battalion commander was killed, and his great-grandfather took command. He, a 17 - year-old soldier, led the fighters in the attack. The detachment under his command broke through the enemy's defenses and went on the offensive. On September 6, 1943, the battle of the Seversky Donets ended. On September 6, 1943, as a result of a severe wound, the War ended for Kaplin Peter. Four pieces of glass hit him. Two doctors were able to remove. And two more were firmly "stuck" in his body: it was impossible to touch them. One, having damaged the vocal cords, "stopped" near the spine. The other, shattered, remained in the thigh. For six months, he was treated in hospitals, recovered, and learned to walk again. On February 22, he was discharged from the army with a record: "Disabled person of the Patriotic War of the 3rd group". In 1947, Peter Kaplin was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree.