Pilot/Observer Badge

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Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Pilot/Observer Badge (Template:Langx) was a World War II German military decoration awarded to Luftwaffe service personnel who had already been awarded the Pilot's Badge and Observer Badge.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". It was instituted on 26 March 1936 by the Commander in Chief of the Luftwaffe Hermann Göring. It was worn on the lower part of the left breast pocket of the service tunic, underneath the Iron Cross 1st Class if awarded. It was to replace the older 1933 Aircrew Badge.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

The badge was originally manufactured in bronze, and later zinc. The badge can be distinguished from the Pilot's Badge by the gold wreath; the Pilot's Badge had a silver wreath. There was also a cloth version of the badge which used embroidered bullion for the officer's version and cotton for the NCO's version. The presentation case was dark blue, with a blue satin top liner and a blue velvet bottom liner on the inside.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

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Badge in Gold with Diamonds

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Denazified version

The exclusive variant of the Pilot/Observer Badge in Gold with Diamonds (Template:Langx). It was bestowed by Göring to honour exceptional achievement and on rare occasions as an honorary award. The first recipients were General Walther Wever, Chief of the Luftwaffe General Staff and General der Flieger Erhard Milch, State Secretary of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium on 11 November 1935.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Another variant of this award was presented to Flug-Kapitänin Hanna Reitsch. This variation was "more like a brooch". A horizontal "shaft" extended from each side of the wreath, which also had diamonds inlaid.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Recipients

Luftwaffe

  • Reichsmarschall Hermann GöringScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • General Walther Wever (Chief-of-General Staff Luftwaffe) - 11 November 1935Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • General Erhard Milch (State Secretary of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium) - 11 November 1935Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • General der Flieger Hugo Sperrle - 19 November 1937Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Major Werner Mölders - mid August 1940Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Major Helmut Wick[1]
  • Hautpmann Werner Baumbach - mid August 1940Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Major Adolf Galland - mid August 1940Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • General Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen - mid August 1940Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Generaloberst Kurt Student - 2 September 1941Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • General der Flieger Friedrich Christiansen – fall of 1940Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • General der Flieger Günther Korten (Chief of the Luftwaffe General Staff) - 1941 (for the Invasion of Crete)Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • General der Flieger Josef KammhuberScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Generaloberst Alexander Löhr - 1940Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Oberstleutnant Hans-Ulrich Rudel - summer of 1944Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Oberst Bernd von Brauchitsch (Chief adjudant of the Reichsmarschall) - summer 1944Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Hauptmann Erich Hartmann - August 1944Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Generalmajor Martin Harlinghausen - 17 April 1945Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Hauptmann Hans-Joachim MarseilleScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Oberst Dietrich PeltzScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Generalfeldmarschall Robert Ritter von GreimScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Generalfeldmarschall Albert KesselringScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Generaloberst Otto Dessloch
  • Generalleutnant Karl Angerstein
  • Oberst Walter Oesau - 17 October 1943
  • Flug-Kapitänin Hanna Reitsch - March 1941Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Flug-Kapitänin Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg 1943Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Generaloberst Ernst UdetScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Oberst Nicolaus von BelowScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Oberst Hajo Herrmann
  • Generaloberst Alfred Keller

Honorary recipients

  • Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler - July 1942Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Großadmiral Karl Dönitz (Oberbefehlshaber der Kriegsmarine) - 1943Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny - fall of 1944Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • SS-Oberstgruppenführer and Generaloberst of the Waffen-SS Sepp DietrichScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Generalfeldmarshall Erwin RommelScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein

Foreign recipients

  • Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Marshal of Finland) - 1942Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Marschall Ion Antonescu (Prime Minister of Romania)Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Regent Miklós Horthy (Regent of Hungary)Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Italo Balbo (Italian aviator)Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Francisco Franco (Spanish dictator)Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia - 1939
  • Benito Mussolini (Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy) - 1937

Notes

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  1. ↑ F.L.Neher: WICK. Hanns Arens Verlag / Berlin - Herrlingen, 1943 P. 1 (in German)

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Template:List of military decorations of the Third Reich

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