Great site!

[Marc Bellizzi]

Gents,

....I´m starting to feel that some of these were used by the scenario designers

Yes, no question about that for design, initially - in fact it was because of the US Army's handbook on "Small Unit Actions on the East Front" in which Soviet Companies were labeled similar to US Companys with A Coy, B Coy, C Coy etc that the Russian OOBs ended up with A, B, C Coy in their battalions. The Russians use numbers similar to the German method; even if they used letters, the cyrillic alphabet would not have resulted in A, B, C, but A, B, G, D, Y, Z, E, T, I, etc and even then that is my corruption of the cyrillic letters into the Roman equivalent.

ASL was always a pretty good guide and the US Army "Green Book" series and Marine Corps "Maroon Books" are great sources as well.