NavyFCO Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Sometimes some batches of research come back and they just aren't very exciting. Today... it was $1K well spent!Here's the research that came in the envelope today:- Red Banner to Comrade Gordienko - you can see the thread here on the forum - Citations, personnel file and service history to a General Lieutenant whose group I own (well, used to...) - OGPW 1 to a Major of Engineers who built forward airstrips and airfields as an aviation engineer- OGPW 1 to a Lt Colonel who led an artillery regiment during fighting in the swamps of the Sivash (Crimea) - OGPW 1 to a Guards Major the citation of whose is unreadable to me because of handwriting (agh!)- OGPW 1 to a Guards Lt for fighting against the Germans as a tankist inside the city of Brig (Brik) in 1945- OGPW 1 to a Guards Major of tank repair- OGPW 1 to a Engineer Major who was the chief of material for the 8th Air Army- OGPW 1 to an Ossetian rifles Lt. for fighting on Ritterstrasse in Berlin on 28 April 1945! - Red Star to a Major of mechanized forces for the Defense of Leningrad in August 1942- OGPW 1 to an Artillery Lt. for taking on 4 "Ferdinand" and two 2 tanks with his artillery piece outside of Kreshendorf.- Homeland 3rd to a General Colonel and State Prize Laureate who was Chief of Staff of the Rear Forces of the Soviet Army for his part in "Osen-88" in 1988 (don't know what that was, but interesting!)- And finally a highly classified citation for a medal "For Military Merit" to a Engineer Captain (later General Major) dated 1970! (Yep, a researched unnumbered one!) Overall, a nice haul! Lots of translations to do!!! Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyFCO Posted January 26, 2006 Author Share Posted January 26, 2006 Well... A quick search on the internet scored me the bio and a nice photo of my General Colonel! According to his bio, he's still alive.... ! (Probably died in the past year or so!) Now where'd the rest of his group go???? http://www.peoples.ru/military/general/golushko/Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digger Doug Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 I had some research in that last shipment that left Russia a couple of weeks ago as well. Every night when I get home, I go right to the mail. Still no joy. Now that you guys in the East have yours, hopefully mine will bere in a couple of days unless the pony express is held up on the way to Arizona. Grrrrrrr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riley1965 Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Wow!! Nice haul. I'll get my first research in a couple of weeks. It's being translated.Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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