Quote:Originally posted by tinmoldova
I don't think Cavaliers and HSU were not mutually exclusive. I see no reason why a buck sergeant in the mud in Stalingrad couldn't have gone from a fresh faced newbie to a HSU without ever receiving a Order of Glory.
There are plenty of cases where an enlisted man received the HSU and not the Order of Glory. The HSU group in my collection is to an Uzbek Sgt in the Cavalry. The only awards he received were the HSU and Order of Lenin in 1945.
The writing in citations differs a great deal from author to author. Some could bearly write a complete sentence and some wrote like Pushkin.
As for deeds done and comparing Orders and Medals, the two closest types of deeds related to awards is not between the HSU and Order of Glory, but the Order of Glory and the Medal "For Valor." In both cases the deed done is almost identical. It seems that it was a personal preference of the officer in charge as to which award was recommended. I always felt bad for guys who had 2 Orders of Glory and a Valor medal as the citations read the same, but they would have received so much more from the State if they had been awarded the third Glory.
Hero citations are a mixture of things. Citations to pilots are usually a compilation of a career, while citations to enlisted men tend to be for a specific event. Its also interesting to not that almost 25% of the W.W.II HSU awards came from the Dneiper River crossing.
Just my observation,
Ed
