Ed_Haynes

Closeup on photo.

The award booklet.

It has surely had a very hard life!

The second Red Star and MMM are the usual mass ukaz listings, so no real reason to post (?).

As exams and sanity allow shall move on to the quirky (to me) service record.

And.

And the first of the somewhat legible (incredibly thin paper?) endorsements.

Part 2.

I feely admit to being a little confused here. But it is that time of the academic semester, when professors buried under mountains of unreadable exams confuse easily.

The first recommendation (post 59 etc.) is for his ORS 905,476 4.11.44?

The second recommendation (post 66 etc.) is for OPW1 118,305 22.6.45?

The odd late (duplicate?) third ORS 3,712,970 per 21.2.45 has gone walkabout (or was never awarded?).

So what is this?

What's the price for such a C01?

Not cheap, Bob, not cheap.

I have to assume all these orders and medals are no more than fantasy additions, as they're the wrong things, in the wrong positions. Just extra rogue holes poked in the uniform that will confuse fiture owners.

Major Grigory Yakovlevich Ivanov

After some adventures (), this group has arrived. See http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=23128 for the full tale.

The main group just arrived. Perhaps you can see why I was worried?

Some logical flow will be lost, but here goes with posting the group.

One more recommendation to go and then the (rather odd) personnel file.

. . . and.

Up the chain of command . . .

Part 2.

Thanks, Rick! Next (after the arrival of lend-lease typewriter ribbons?):

Thanks in advance. More to come in easy-to-digest bits.

. . . and.

. . . and . . .

Up the chain of command . . .

Part 2.

OK, starting the recommendations, in no particular order.

This one seems to display evidence of wartime shortages of fresh typewriter ribbons, sorry.

Many thanks for this, Rick, many thanks!

Let me know when you can stand more.

A new one will be up soon, though mosty translated already . . . .

Thanks, Rick. Await daylight. Let me know if you can consume more.