Soviet U.S. Army Decorations Awarded to Red Army Personnel in World War II

[JapanX]

Strangely enough no Legion of Merit on this one

Guess it is later anti-american version

Edited July 29, 2013 by JapanX

[Herman]

Hello, great info and a great string....

I read somewhere that a few Red Army members were awarded a US Purple Heart. 3 i think.

Any pictures or names to attach to those medals?

[utopis]

Hm I think in this case the legion of merit isn't the greatest beauty on this photograph

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[JapanX]

Definitely!

[JapanX]

I read somewhere that a few Red Army members were awarded a US Purple Heart. 3 i think.

Any pictures or names to attach to those medals?

Unfortunately no names and no photos Herman.

Actually this is the very first time I heard about "purple hearts for soviets".

I guess there are some theoretical possibilities of such awardings before September 22, 1943 when hearts stoped being awarded for "meritorious performance of duty". But after 1943 it was strictly "for wounds received in action against the enemy" award ...

The only time I saw PH on the chest of ex soviet soldier ...

Famous "soldier of two armies" Joseph Beyrle and his son (US ambassador) on Red Square

[JapanX]

Amazing story http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Beyrle

Together with PPSH

[JapanX]

Strange choice of awards ...

[JapanX]

That is one angry para!!!

[JapanX]

[Herman]

Japan X,

I read it in an old OMSA article. 3 PH's were awarded 'by mistake??' to soviet army personell.

[JapanX]

I guess this the same article that was mentioned in the first post of this thread?

Any "coordinates" Herman?

[Herman]

Correct, same article.

They were awarded by the US Military Mission in Moscow during WW2.

[JapanX]

Colonel Pavlov-Hohlov E.D. and his bronze star

[JapanX]

[JapanX]

General Pliev and his Legion

[JapanX]

Later

[JapanX]

Hero of Mongolia

[JapanX]

Navy time

I believe this is the very first cavalier of Navy Distinguished Service Medal in this thread.

Unfortunately unidentified ...

Only the year is known - 1943

[JapanX]

[JapanX]

Navy cross cavalier Basistyi Nikolay Efremovich

[JapanX]

Rear-admiral Donald Bradley Duncan in the process of awarding Navy Cross to HSU captain of the 2nd rank Gurin A.I.

1943

[JapanX]

Gurin after the war

[JapanX]

Two (unfortunately) unidentified cavaliers of Legion

[JapanX]

[Ferdinand]

That second one is Ivan Ivanovich Lyudnikov. His Wikipedia page has the same photo, but in higher quality: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8E%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%98%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B8%D1%87