Pilot/Observer Badge
Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript 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.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn 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.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
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.Template:Sfn
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Badge in Gold with Diamonds
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.Template:Sfn
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.Template:Sfn
Recipients
Luftwaffe
- Reichsmarschall Hermann GöringTemplate:Sfn
- General Walther Wever (Chief-of-General Staff Luftwaffe) - 11 November 1935Template:Sfn
- General Erhard Milch (State Secretary of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium) - 11 November 1935Template:Sfn
- General der Flieger Hugo Sperrle - 19 November 1937Template:Sfn
- Major Werner Mölders - mid August 1940Template:Sfn
- Major Helmut Wick[1]
- Hautpmann Werner Baumbach - mid August 1940Template:Sfn
- Major Adolf Galland - mid August 1940Template:Sfn
- General Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen - mid August 1940Template:Sfn
- Generaloberst Kurt Student - 2 September 1941Template:Sfn
- General der Flieger Friedrich Christiansen – fall of 1940Template:Sfn
- General der Flieger Günther Korten (Chief of the Luftwaffe General Staff) - 1941 (for the Invasion of Crete)Template:Sfn
- General der Flieger Josef KammhuberTemplate:Sfn
- Generaloberst Alexander Löhr - 1940Template:Sfn
- Oberstleutnant Hans-Ulrich Rudel - summer of 1944Template:Sfn
- Oberst Bernd von Brauchitsch (Chief adjudant of the Reichsmarschall) - summer 1944Template:Sfn
- Hauptmann Erich Hartmann - August 1944Template:Sfn
- Generalmajor Martin Harlinghausen - 17 April 1945Template:Sfn
- Hauptmann Hans-Joachim MarseilleTemplate:Sfn
- Oberst Dietrich PeltzTemplate:Sfn
- Generalfeldmarschall Robert Ritter von GreimTemplate:Sfn
- Generalfeldmarschall Albert KesselringTemplate:Sfn
- Generaloberst Otto Dessloch
- Generalleutnant Karl Angerstein
- Oberst Walter Oesau - 17 October 1943
- Flug-Kapitänin Hanna Reitsch - March 1941Template:Sfn
- Flug-Kapitänin Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg 1943Template:Sfn
- Generaloberst Ernst UdetTemplate:Sfn
- Oberst Nicolaus von BelowTemplate:Sfn
- Oberst Hajo Herrmann
- Generaloberst Alfred Keller
Honorary recipients
- Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler - July 1942Template:Sfn
- Großadmiral Karl Dönitz (Oberbefehlshaber der Kriegsmarine) - 1943Template:Sfn
- SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny - fall of 1944Template:Sfn
- SS-Oberstgruppenführer and Generaloberst of the Waffen-SS Sepp DietrichTemplate:Sfn
- Generalfeldmarshall Erwin RommelTemplate:Sfn
- Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein
Foreign recipients
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Marshal of Finland) - 1942Template:Sfn
- Marschall Ion Antonescu (Prime Minister of Romania)Template:Sfn
- Regent Miklós Horthy (Regent of Hungary)Template:Sfn
- Italo Balbo (Italian aviator)Template:Sfn
- Francisco Franco (Spanish dictator)Template:Sfn
- Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia - 1939
- Benito Mussolini (Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy) - 1937
Notes
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- ↑ F.L.Neher: WICK. Hanns Arens Verlag / Berlin - Herrlingen, 1943 P. 1 (in German)
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