04-17-2008, 10:59 AM
Eryk Wrote:Anyway, this is sleuthing not really worth the name – Schmitt’s book was probably never meant to be used this way.
Hallelujah! Yes, it was meant to be used this way!
I've since expanded the amount of s/n's by three times, but with millions of awards it will never be complete. Unfortunately, I still can't make a definitive call - there is no red flag or smoking gun.
One of the awards I've pinned down to within 50 #'s, awarded very early '45 by 1 Belorussian Front and although the amount other awards don't seem logical so late in the war (look at when the booklet indicates the first awarding was - APR 45), it's still hard to make a definitive call. It's possible for such an arrangement, but I agree with a comment above - with this many lower awardings you'd expect to see a late war RS or Glory thrown in for variety and if truly 1 Belorussian Front, there should probably be a Warsaw and/or Berlin included.
This combination is possible, but probably not complete or somehow slightly tinkered with.
