1940 issued Orders of the Red Star

[Bill Garvy]

-#7315 Awarded May 13th, 1940, "large, curved MONDVOR" variation, to Junior Commander Ivan Ivanovich Grinin, Tank Commander in the 85th Independent Tank Battalion, 39th Independent Light Tank Brigade.

[Aleksander P]

-#17754 Awarded September 13th, 1940 per decree of April 11th, 1940 to Alex Matveyevich Hodyuk for the Finnish Campaign. (T.4, V1)

-#14570 Awarded June 6th, 1940 per decree of March 21st, 1940 to Judas Matveyevich Matveev for the Finnish Campaign. (T.4, V1)

-#12107 Awarded June 29th, 1940 per the decree of February 3rd, 1940 to Boris Nikolayevich Makarov, "understudy" Captain of the icebreaker "Joseph Stalin". (The Icebreaker "Joseph Stalin" freed Icebreaker Sedov on January 18th, 1940 between Greenland and Svalbard.)

Red Stars 7249 & 8236 were traded and never researched. . .

Thank you Bill! Very interesting indeed!