02-23-2012, 09:25 PM
CtahhR Wrote:Excellent!Documents can't be always trusted in regards to one's job in the military. My dad's uncle was a barber in a cavalry division, became POW in Sevastopol encirclement. On ОБД Мемориал site where info can be found on most KIA and POW of GPW, his record shows him as a sapper in a Special Battalion of Shore Defense.
Just strange that the Automatnik is more of a Laundromatnik.
The Guards Sr Sgt was awarded a pair of Medals "For Combat Merits" when the second citation comes up on the podvig site I just wonder if he was combating with a trouser press?
Research can really open up some hitherto unimaginable citations. Since the citations were Top Secret you can come back from the war and tell the children about your great feats of heroism whilst being a Senior Sgt. in a Machine Gun unit of a tank corps.












