Soviet Small group

[order_of_victory]

Thanks Gerd, it was far to early for me post a link to it

BTW was the group resarched off the OGPW 1st Class , can you resarch 1985 OGPW

Order of Victory

[Gerd Becker]

Thanks Gerd, it was far to early for me post a link to it

BTW was the group resarched off the OGPW 1st Class , can you resarch 1985 OGPW

Order of Victory

This was researched over the unnumbered Military Merit Medal. Its possible to research them, if you have the ordersbook of the recipient. 1985 OGPW?s are unresearchable.

Gerd

[order_of_victory]

Thanks Gerd, that might be somthing to look into on my unnumbered medal

I guess there would be no point resarcching a 1985 OGPW any way

Order of Victory

[Paul L Murphy]

What were the requirements to qualify for a OGPW 1985 award ? Was it awarded to all veterans still alive, those who had been wounded, those who had a bravery award or some other criteria ? I would be grateful if someone could explain it to me.

Paul

[Ed_Haynes]

What were the requirements to qualify for a OGPW 1985 award ? Was it awarded to all veterans still alive, those who had been wounded, those who had a bravery award or some other criteria ? I would be grateful if someone could explain it to me.

Paul

There was a good article on in in JOMSA a while back; let me dig that out. The "Red Bible" does a decent job with this, pp. 132-33.

Summary -- to surviving participants in GPW:

OPW1 -

--- HSUs

--- Cav. of Order of Glory

--- Marshals, generals & admirals

--- Awarded an order or a medal for bravery, ushakov, combat service, nakhimov, or partisan

--- Invalid wounded in combat

OPW2 -

--- Any other surviving veteran

Edited August 24, 2006 by Ed_Haynes

[Paul L Murphy]

Ed,

Many thanks, I never noticed the entry in the Red Bible despite the fact that it should have been the most obvious place for me to look, duh ! I like the end note about "militant Japan", I'll see what happens if I use that line with my wife the next time I have a domestic argument !

Cheers,

Paul

[NavyFCO]

There was a good article on in in JOMSA a while back; let me dig that out. The "Red Bible" does a decent job with this, pp. 132-33.

Summary -- to surviving participants in GPW:

OPW1 -

--- HSUs

--- Cav. of Order of Glory

--- Marshals, generals & admirals

--- Awarded an order or a medal for bravery, ushakov, combat service, nakhimov, or partisan

--- Invalid wounded in combat

OPW2 -

--- Any other surviving veteran

As can be imagined, there are plenty of exceptions to this rule. Most of the exceptions that I am aware of involve giving a 2nd Class to someone who deserved a 1st, but there may well have been exceptions going the other way around. I've owned several groups to very well decorated (for heroism) individuals (like one with RB, OGPW1, OGPW2, RS - all for combat) but who ended up with the lower end OGPW.

Dave

[Ed_Haynes]

Between "rules" and their application, there is always a great chasm. That is where it gets interesting, after all.