Order of Glory, 3rd class, Type 2, Var. 1, #86401, awarded a reconnaissance man of combat engineers battalion, for bravery shown during the July 1944 offensive of the Second Baltic Front that brought the Red Army into Latvia. Hours before the offensive, he made two forays into the no- man's land where he reconnoitered enemy defenses and cut a wide lane in the barbed wire obstacles. The recipient later earned an Order of Glory 2nd cl. (#2922), Order of the Red Star and Medal for Valor - an uncommonly large number of combat decorations for an enlisted man! Comes with archival research.

"Soldier's Glory", Volume 6. I. Roschin. C. 1982, Moscow. Russian text, hard cover, 255 pp.