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    Posted

    Hello Gentlemen,

    i bought a few photos on a collectors meeting today and want to ask you for help with the handwritten notes on the reverse.

    First is a Stalingrad Veteran Major, who wears a Bravery Medal beside his ORB, Stalingrad Medal and VoG-Medal

    Guest Rick Research
    Posted

    1) Nice-- unusual combination of awards! Attested 2 December 1947 by a colonel commanding (stamp) Political Section of 8th Mechanized Army. Photo is of major Gersh M(father's name lost under stamp) Nagorsky.

    2) Naval Captain 1st Rank Fyedor Panteleevich Glutschenko, attested 14.7.55 by acting commander of Unit 69106 a captain 3rd Rank. The top just cropped off = Cadres Unit Political Administration Pacific Ocean Fleet (OK PU TOF). What is his medal after Defense of the Polar Region?

    Guest Rick Research
    Posted

    3) Air Force Engineering Major wearing outdated M1955-58 dress uniform, taken 26 April 1960--

    Fyedor Nikiforovich Shadrin of Unit 77904.

    4) Air Force Guards Lieutenant Colonel Aleksandr Mikhailovich Alekssev, certified 26.3.54 by acting CO of Staff for

    229th Independent Towing Aviation Squadron

    this must be a unit that "pulled" gliders or other airborne equipment. Nice unit!!!

    5)Colonel of some sort of administrative branch-- can you zoom in on the branch device above his rank stars?

    Georgy Vasilievich Pokroev attested (day too light to read) February 1951 by acting Cadres Co Major.

    The parts of the upside down stamp I can read are "Artillery "Order of the Patriotic War...." Technical Academy."

    Posted (edited)

    I fear, this is the best, i can do, Rick. Its blurry on the photo itself. To Nr. 2, the Medal after Defense of the Polar Region is Defense of Caucasus.

    Edited by Gerd Becker
    Guest Rick Research
    Posted

    Hmmmm... medical goblet and serpent?

    Posted

    Well, i don?t know... Here is a good picture from CollectRussia to compare. Its Navy, but though...

    Will see, if i can find anything, that comes close...

    However, need some sleep first.

    Rick, thanks a lot, my friend. :cheers:

    Guest Rick Research
    Posted

    Ah! :speechless: Gerd-- it is the winged steering wheel over tires of Motor Transport I think, looking at the uptright / but...

    what is THAT doing on narrow Administrative boards?

    Posted (edited)

    No, i think, they are different. I have to check in daylight tomorrow, my eyes are hurting from all the enamel, i saw today :cheeky:

    Thanks for the interest so far.

    Edited by Gerd Becker
    Posted

    Ah! :speechless: Gerd-- it is the winged steering wheel over tires of Motor Transport I think, looking at the uptright / but...

    what is THAT doing on narrow Administrative boards?

    Well, you must be right, Rick. It really doesn?t look like Motor Transport in my opinion, but its the only device, that comes close enough...

    • 1 month later...
    Posted

    Got a few more today...

    What would you say, how old would you guess this Major?

    Noone bites? I would have guessed him at about 30-35 on this picture, but now look at this one of the same chap:

    Posted

    Major? That's a Guards Lieutenant-Colonel (Pavel Aleksandrovich Lapin)...

    Auke, thanks, you are right of course. I had this picture in mind, when i wrote that text above, sorry....

    Can anyone assist with the text on this one?

    Posted (edited)

    I think his name is Yevgeny Ilyich Tyukhtin, signed by Guards Lieutenant-Colonel Lazarenko on April 10 1953... Nice pictures by the way, but no Red Banner on the last officer! :P

    Edited by Ferdinand
    Guest Rick Research
    Posted

    Tyukhtin was in the 66th Guards Tank Regiment.

    Guest Rick Research
    Posted

    No, that is who signed off certifying that the photo was him.

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