A Jewish doctor who fought his way through enemy troops with a tommy gun to reach wounded Russian soldiers was similarly lauded today in accounts of heroism at the front. Guards Surgeon Dr. Saul Marmelstein has been deocrated with the Order of Lenin for orawling on all fours to reach wounded Red Army men and performing minor operations on ten of them under constant fire from German machine guns and artillery, the press reports.
Wolf Wortman, eighteen-years old, a lieutenant attached to a tank unit, has also received the Order of Lenin for two daring feats, local newspapers report. He has been cited for leading four Russian soldiers to the rear of the Nazi lines to establish contact with partisan units, and was also decorated for destroying seventy Germans during a tank attack on the western front. Although his tank was disabled, Wortman trapped the Germans into thinking its crew was dead and when they approached the machine, he and his men mowed down the Nazis.
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