Something I don't know is whether any of the medals were awarded to men who had already been flown out. It seems unlikely that the Heer would have been keeping track of flown-out personnel closely enough to be able to segregate medals only to men who were still in the kessel. If Dornemann did fly out after his award date of January 23d he was one of the very last, if memory serves the final flight was on or about the 26th...