HEADER PAGE 1 MEDAL OF USHAKOV The MEDAL OF USHAKOV was a Military award created on 3/3/1944 by the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to honor the Rus- sian Admiral Fyodor Ushakov who never lost a battle and Proclaimed Patron Saint of the Russian Navy and is being awarded to sailors who delivered supplies to Russia during WW II for their bravery. Many of you who have received awards from the Russian Embassy in the past are now receiving them. If you came back on board since they were being issued, contact: THE EMBASSY of the RUSSIA FEDERATION, 2650 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20007 giving your name, address, ships you sailed on, and the date to the Murmansk Area, the Black Sea or Persian Gulf areas. Image sent in by John L. Haynes • 13887 Rue Charlot Lane • McCordsville, IN 46055 • 317-514-0100 •
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[email protected] Ron Carlson 616 Putnam Place Alexander, VA 22302-4018 Board of Directors DearEveryone, 11/2/12 C.A. Lloyd ..................................................NC John Stokes ................................................. CA Don Gleason ...............................................KS At last I have gotten around to getting another POINTER out to all of you. It has been Clarence Korker ..........................................FL a trying time but here it is. Hilda told me that I had to clean up this room so I took off Joe Colgan. ................................................MD 3 days cleaning and on the THIRD day, I found my “TREADMILL” but now I can’t Gerald Greaves .............................................RI find anything that I hadn’t lost.