Photographs Of Recipients Of Soviet Awards/Service Personnel.

[slava1stclass]

Gents,

A stunning image of Brigade Commander V. A. Yerofeyev wearing his XV. Photograph dates to September 29th, 1935.

Regards,

slava1stclass

[slava1stclass]

Gents,

A very nice image of Marshal of Aviation Skripko in his dress/parade uniform.

Regards,

slava1stclass

[Pobeda45]

A rare image of the legendary 1st Ukrainian Front commander's public viewing in Kyiv, April 1944. Vatutin was ambushed by Ukrainian nationalist insurgents on February 28th, 1944 and succumbed to his wounds six weeks later.

Related, Vatutin and Nikita Khrushev were close as Khrushev was a member of Vatutin's military council. There are many photos of the two of them together, and Khrushev headed up Vatutin's funeral on his own 50th birthday. Now there are conspiracy theories about Vatutin being murdered in surgery, since his bullet wound was through the hip and originally thought not life threatening.

George

[deValcourt]

Gents,

A stunning image of Brigade Commander V. A. Yerofeyev wearing his XV. Photograph dates to September 29th, 1935.

Regards,

slava1stclass

Yep. I guess you've noticed that I used the last set of photos with the larger than assumed 10th anniversary Chekist badge on my website because not only was I impressed with how they were actually worn, but I thought other folks might be, too.

Phillip

[slava1stclass]

Gents,

Combat arms through and through.

Regards,

slava1stclass

[Al-muell]

Any idea who she was? Quite unusual for a woman to be a tanker...

[slava1stclass]

Any idea who she was? Quite unusual for a woman to be a tanker...

Al-muell,

Unfortunately, no identification.

Quite the contrary. Red Army female tank troopers, while the exception, were more common on the battlefield than you may realize.

Regards,

slava1stclass

[CtahhR]

I'm surprised Hollywood hasn't jumped on a sexy, sassy, killing machine heroine as a concept for a historical fact-based film.
The "night witches" do it for me most of the time without being glamorised by Hollywood.

I must admit that even after 8 pints I can tell the difference between Jude Law and Vasilij Zajtsev.

Pavelchenko sequel? Woody Guthrie has already done the end credits song.

[Al-muell]

Al-muell,

Unfortunately, no identification.

Quite the contrary. Red Army female tank troopers, while the exception, were more common on the battlefield than you may realize.

Regards,

slava1stclass

Realy? Were they crewmen? OK, I know, women were air crewmen, snipers, scouts, artillerists and even regular soldiers (not to mention female naval infantry squad leader), but tank crew? To me looks like the problems may be similar to those that prevent navy from recruting women to the submarine service.

[slava1stclass]

Realy? Were they crewmen?

Al-muell,

Yes, they served as tank crew members. Some were highly decorated for their service.

Regards,

slava1stclass