Ed_Haynes Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 Part 1 of his medals. 1- 264712- 4957523- 4091284- 31143655- 2618 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 Medals part 2-Red Banner only numbered - 537880 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 Medals part 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stogieman Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 Now that's a pretty darn nice group Ed! Especially the 2 bars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 Medals part 4The last two are on incorrect ribbons.Next-to-last - Bulgaria: Medal "30th Anniversary of Victory over Fascist Germany"Last - ??? (Bulgarian too?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 (edited) BadgesI hate to admit how clueless I am on these, even the first two that I (think I) know. Edited March 2, 2006 by Ed_Haynes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 (edited) Documents to come.But an image of the man (and I see at least two things that have gone walkabout from the group ).Closeups of anything on request. Edited March 2, 2006 by Ed_Haynes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stogieman Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 Hi Ed, several things on there I have not seen on bars before. The 40 Year Lenin Medal for one. What are the two on red ribbons at the end of his third (!!) Medal bar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 Hi Ed, several things on there I have not seen on bars before. The 40 Year Lenin Medal for one. What are the two on red ribbons at the end of his third (!!) Medal bar?The next-to-last - Bulgaria: Medal "30th Anniversary of Victory over Fascist Germany". Last? No clue. Both on incorrect ribbons, though . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
order_of_victory Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 The 40 Year Lenin Medal for one.The 40 Lenin Medal is the Jubilee Medal for 40 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 Ooo ooo ooo (for those old enough to remember "Car 54, Where Are You?") Paperwork? Files? Citations?Which Academy badge is that? I can't read what it says on the shield.Nifty nifty nifty "modern" general group!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 Ooo ooo ooo (for those old enough to remember "Car 54, Where Are You?") Paperwork? Files? Citations?Which Academy badge is that? I can't read what it says on the shield.Nifty nifty nifty "modern" general group!!! Do not wish to be reminded of age, Rick. Enough things do that as it is. Paperwork you ask . . . ??Your wish is my command. Especially as the bundle came with almost no translations . . . First, the 1946 issue award book: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ed_Haynes Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 And . . . No other formal documents (though it is said that there are other documents and papers "out there", yet to be extracted -- hope springs eternal). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 But . . . the untranslated paperwork (near on to 1 cm): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ed_Haynes Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 And . . . will start this . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 Interesting! He STARTED with the Nevsky as his first award!!!Victory Over Germany Medal issued on 29 September 1945 to Ivan Ivanovich Kravchenko as a Captain, 213rd Rifles Division (methinks he musta been on the staff or it'd be issued at regimental level)Veteran of Armed Forces as Lieutenant General of Reserve (retired below age 60) per 26.10.76 on 10.2.77 by Rostov Oblast Veterans Commissariat.Awards Record Card from 10 February 1954 at which time he was a Lt Col, Commander of Cadet Battalion, Cheropovetsky Infantry School.Born 1920 village of Gulyayaka, Frolovsky Raion, Stalingradsky OblastRed Army since 1938, CPSU member since 1942Higher education, "Russian" (SIC!!!!!!!!!!)OAN 2.4.45 per 52nd ArmyOPW2 15.7.45 dittoORS 1953 for long serviceMMM 1949 for dittoVoG and 1948 with nominal dates of creation as always with these.RED BANNER 537,880 on 22 February 1968 and boyoboy do we wann see the reason for THATOSH3 30.4.75I hope you have alllllllllllll the citationsssssssss.From THIS page, I see you have ALL the kit and ALL the kaboodle for full legible typed complete be still my heart personnel records:Lt 22.7.41Sr Lt 28.10.43Capt. 4.4.45 per 1st Ukrainian FrontMajor 24.8.48Lt Col 6.11.51Col 19.2.58MajGen 16/18.6.65LtGen 1/9/11.7(?1 can you read that on the original?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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