Guard Senior Sergeant Ilya Amelin from the 15th Guards Rifle Division with a captured German Panzerfaust 60M rocket launcher. 1st Ukrainian Front of the Red Army.
From the award list: “On March 18, 1945, Comrade Ilya Amelin seized a German rocket-assisted gun and, with the third shot, set one of two German self-propelled guns on fire near the village of Niklasdorf, Silesia.”
Location: Silesia, Germany
Photo time: 1945