07-25-2009, 02:36 PM
Another troubling feature is I have a RS 1.069M, only 130 away from your serial number awarded by the 1UF.
Your hero wears a Victory over Japan Medal, but curiously no Victory over Germany Medal. I don't have the time to go through the Order of Battle to find out which rifle division the 9 Rifle Regiment belonged to, but if our lieutenant was in the European theater in NOV '44 according to the ID and didn't receive any other decorations for Germany and/or Japan - suspicious.
Depending on where the 9 Rifle Regiment was, he could have sat out the war in either the Eastern Theater staring down the Japanese, or been commissioned late and sent out East after Germany's capitulation. Either way - wierd.
Your hero wears a Victory over Japan Medal, but curiously no Victory over Germany Medal. I don't have the time to go through the Order of Battle to find out which rifle division the 9 Rifle Regiment belonged to, but if our lieutenant was in the European theater in NOV '44 according to the ID and didn't receive any other decorations for Germany and/or Japan - suspicious.
Depending on where the 9 Rifle Regiment was, he could have sat out the war in either the Eastern Theater staring down the Japanese, or been commissioned late and sent out East after Germany's capitulation. Either way - wierd.












