02-16-2009, 05:54 PM
No one has answered my question, however if there is some "armored" indicator, he could have commanded an ASU-57 - Soviet self-propelled artillery like a "tank," but technically not one.
Another possibility is he attended a tank academy and was commissioned, then transferred to airborne.
A final, though less likely possibility is he was assigned to a large armored formation, but was in the unit's airborne-deliverable long-range-reconnaissance formation.
Again, someone please tell me, is the oval badge taken to be an armored academy graduation badge or is the "color" of the black and white photo indicative of the usual "black" armored color (which incidentally could also be engineers or other branches of service...)
Another possibility is he attended a tank academy and was commissioned, then transferred to airborne.
A final, though less likely possibility is he was assigned to a large armored formation, but was in the unit's airborne-deliverable long-range-reconnaissance formation.
Again, someone please tell me, is the oval badge taken to be an armored academy graduation badge or is the "color" of the black and white photo indicative of the usual "black" armored color (which incidentally could also be engineers or other branches of service...)
