Two main approaches:
1) Award medals and promotions from the top down, as higher ranks benefit more (in terms of how they then impact compartment efficiency) than lower ranks.
2) Award medals based on merit: if, for instance, while on patrol your flak gunner shot down two planes and iron cross second class is available to hand out, he'd be a candidate for it in this approach.
I used to use method one, but now for more realism/immersion I use method two and fall back on method one only in cases where there are multiple crew eligible for the same promotion (in which case, all else being equal I award it to the highest rank eligible for it).
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