Ed_Haynes Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 (edited) Bits and pieces of his group have been posted here, but as they now live with me, I have the DUTY to post his group coherently.It may take me a while to sort things out and get them posted.First, his medals (sorry, they really didn't fit on the scanner bed, but I MADE them fit, sort of). Edited August 3, 2008 by Ed_Haynes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 1, 2008 Author Share Posted August 1, 2008 Awards book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 1, 2008 Author Share Posted August 1, 2008 Photo closeup.He got better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 1, 2008 Author Share Posted August 1, 2008 Awards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 1, 2008 Author Share Posted August 1, 2008 And here he is much later on, when he'd gotten MUCH better (with an additional MMM?!?!?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 1, 2008 Author Share Posted August 1, 2008 More to come . . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 :Cat-Scratch: Ahhhhhhnald! Now the Gubernator of Kali-forniya! Orders Book bears the stamp of "Administration of Command of Battle Tank and Mechanized Forces of the Group of the Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany." His later photo shows him in military railways uniform, with Honored Railway Employee badge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 (edited) OK, while he has been mentione over at http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3285 (and, I think, elsewhere), let me work on giving him the complete treatment he deserves.Award record card. Edited August 3, 2008 by Ed_Haynes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 Reverse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 As most of this bundle is in untranslated Russian (sorry, Rick), let me just add the translations of two items that give some context for this group.I still need to sort xeroxes and award cards (a 5-inch stack).Translation 1-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 And, explaining a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 And, at the risk or over-stretching Comrade Rick, the service card, part 1: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 Reverse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 Inside, part 1. (Where'd the BLOB come from!)Have scanned in many pieces due to small size or writing. And there WILL be overlap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 Part 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 Part 3Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 And the nasty-muddy-xeroxed photo (but same as booklet, I think, with artificial jaw). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 OK, I know it is the one you are all waiting to see, right?Separate plate and screw-back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 Document. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 Inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 Shall postpone posting more until you recover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyFCO Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 An interesting aside about this group is that it was almost an incomplete group... I originally received the group without the For Valor medal, as the family couldn't find it. It took nearly two years before they found it and it made it's way to me...what a difference it makes when you keep pursuing it!Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul R Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 That is one killer grouping, Ed! I look forward to seeing your next surprise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 5, 2008 Author Share Posted August 5, 2008 Thanks, Paul. There's much more to add here, but it would be easier for what I have already put up to be "digested" before I serve the "second course". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Recognized the face-- thought he'd already been done. DO feel free to contribute, comraids. Honored Railway Baddge 8596 of 7.5.40 as Commander of Heavy Substation St. Kizel Perm Railway BUT from his rank and uniform, the photo dates 1950+ -- see belowARC =Vasily Ivanovich Andreevborn 1911 city of Chusovoi, Molotovskoi OblastMmber CPSU 1931, elementary education, Russian.Army 1932-33 and since 1941.Decorated as commander of a rifles battalion in the 54th Army, Leningrad Front and as Deputy Battalion Commander for Political Matters (Commissar) in 8th Guards ArmyNow (9.4.46) Deputy Commissar in the 120th Mobile Tank Assembly-Repair Factory (!)Living at Apt. 36, House 2.10 Yebissona Ulitsa, LeningradValor Medal 2,560,303 per 54th Army decree of 31.3.42 (from the number, this obviously did not get to him before circa May 1945)MMM 631,698 per 14.12.43 decree of 8th Guards ArmyORS 947,838 per decree of 8th Guards Army 18.8.44OPW 2nd 316,040 per same 21.3.45Medals for liberation of Warsaw, Capture of Berlin, Victory Over GermanySigned off by Factory CO Lt Col AkutnikovService record =Birth day 21 January 1911. No foreign languages. CPSU member # 1,767,701. Finished 7th grade education in 1927. Took a refresher course for military commissars in 1953.Junior Politruk 23.12.41 per 54th ArmyPolitruk 22.2.42 sameSenior Politruk 18.6.42 per Volkhov FrontCaptain (same thing--title changed) 4.12.42 per Southwest FrontMajor 25.4.44 per 3rd Ukrainian FrontLieutenant Colonel 5.11.50 per "ZhDV" which will probably be undertsandable when I get to that pageServed during the war 15.8.41-11.4.42 Leningrad Front (severely wounded that day)24.12.42-5.8.43 on Southwest Front5.8.43-9.5.45 on 1st White Russian and 3rd Ukrainian Frontsawards added--1948 Armed Forces Jubilee and 2nd MMM unnumbered 30.4.54Wife Yekaterina Aleksandrovna Andreeva born 1912 and children sons: Aleksandr 1934, Vladimir 1935, Georgy 1936, and daughter Anto(nine?) 1941Big giant white SPLOT next to stamp sized photo on extremely/excessively detaailed "wher and when called up" top of second side. Shall omt that entirely as all entries partially obliterated.Cadet at 3rd Military Aviation School "in the name of K. Ye. Voroshilov" Baltic Military District 5.5.32to be continued... (do, please anybody. I hate to be the Automatic Translator ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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