Pilot Badge with Diamonds Recipients

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Re: Pilot Badge with Diamonds Recipients

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Post by malvinas82 » 25 Oct 2012, 23:58

Mark Costa wrote:Malvinas:

The photo just above of Catlos does NOT show him wearing the Diamond PO badge. You are confusing it with two Slovakian Pilot Badges which are similiar in appearance. These are shown below. Catlos is wearing both of these type badges in the photo above.

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Thanks Mark :milsmile:

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Agustin.

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Re: Pilot Badge with Diamonds Recipients

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Post by malvinas82 » 31 Oct 2012, 13:56

Hi Mark! This is Hauptmann Albert Scheidig; he seems to be wearing the PO badge with Diamonds.. could it be?

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Re: Pilot Badge with Diamonds Recipients

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Post by malvinas82 » 01 Nov 2012, 23:37

A photo from a video on youtube, showing Rommel with the badge, after a meeting with Italian Officers.

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Re: Pilot Badge with Diamonds Recipients

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Post by Mark Costa » 02 Nov 2012, 13:29

Malvinas:

Scheidig is wearing the standard PO badge WITHOUT diamonds.

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Re: Pilot Badge with Diamonds Recipients

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Post by AlifRafikKhan » 05 Nov 2012, 12:47

malvinas82 wrote:A photo from a video on youtube, showing Rommel with the badge, after a meeting with Italian Officers.

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Hi Agustin, can you please give the link for the video?

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Re: Pilot Badge with Diamonds Recipients

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Post by malvinas82 » 06 Nov 2012, 05:33

Here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLUbWxPkRnc

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Re: Pilot Badge with Diamonds Recipients

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Post by AlifRafikKhan » 06 Nov 2012, 12:25

Thank you, Agustin... :)

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Re: Pilot Badge with Diamonds Recipients

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Post by Mark Costa » 03 Dec 2012, 16:20

French General Vuillemin wearing the badge.

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Re: Pilot Badge with Diamonds Recipients

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Post by Mark Costa » 03 Dec 2012, 21:46

Attached are two photos of Luftwaffe General-der-Flieger Hans-Georg von Seidel. It appears he is wearing the CPOB with Diamonds. If this is confirmed with a better photo, then he would be the 84th confirmed recipient of this rare award.

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Re: Pilot Badge with Diamonds Recipients

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Post by Mark Costa » 11 Dec 2012, 02:46

Attached is a newspaper article that was posted at the WAF by Markojeras. It is confirmation that I have long suspected,that Vladimir Kren is a confirmed recipient of this rare badge. He is now the 86th confirmed recipient. My latest list is attached here.

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Angerstein, Karl
Antonescu, Ion
d' Astier de la Vigerie Moraglia, François
Balbo, Italo
Bär, Heinz
Baumbach, Werner
Below, Nicolaus von
Blomberg, Werner von
Bodenschatz, Karl
Borbón, Alfonso de Orléans y
Brauchitsch, Bernd von
Čatloš, Ferdinand
Cavallero, Ugo
Christian, Eckhard
Christiansen, Friedrich
Dessloch, Otto
Dietl, Eduard
Dietrich, Josef "Sepp"
Dönitz, Karl
Druschel, Alfred
Franco y Bahamonde, Fransisco
Gablenz, Carl-Albrecht Freiherr von
Galland, Adolf
de Geffrier, Hubert-Marie Joseph
Göring, Hermann
Görnnert, Fritz Dr.-Ing
Gollob, Gordon M.
Graf, Hermann
Grauert, Ulrich Hans
Greim, Robert Ritter von
Harlinghausen, Martin
Hartmann, Erich
Helbig, Joachim
Herrmann, Hajo
Himmler, Heinrich
Horthy de Nagybánya, Miklós
Ihlefeld, Herbert
Jeschonnek, Hans
Kammhuber, Josef
Kastner-Kirdof, Gustav
Keller, Alfred
Kesselring, Albert
Kettembeil, Hans
Kindelán y Duany, Alfredo
Korten, Eduard
Lent, Helmut
Loerzer, Bruno
Löhr, Alexander
Lützow, Günther
Mannerheim, Carl Gustav
Marseille, Hans Joachim
Milch, Erhard
Mölders, Werner
Navratil, Miroslav (Friedrich)
Nowotny, Walter
Oesau, Walter
Pariani, Alberto
Paul of Yugoslavia, Prince
Peltz, Dietrich
Petitjean-Roget, Albert
Pfugbeil, Hans [correct: Kurt Pflugbeil]
Ramcke, Bernhard Hermann
Reitsch, Hanna
Richthofen, Dr.-Ing. Wolfram von
Rommel, Erwin
Rudel, Hans Ulrich
Sandalli, Renato
Schmidlein, ?
Schnaufer, Heinz-Wolfgang
Skorzeny, Otto
Sperrle, Hugo
Stauffenberg, Melitta Schenk Gräfin von
Stehlin, Paul
Student, Kurt
Stumpff, Hans Jürgen
Teucci, Guiseppe
Trettner, Heinrich
Udet, Ernst
Uzelac, Emil (Milan)
Valle, Victor G.
Vuillemin, Joseph
Wenninger, Rudolf
Wever, Walter
1 Un-Named French Officer
Seidel, Hans-Georg von
Kren, Vladimir


Possibles
Baur, Hans
Diesing, Ulrich
Fraff, ?
Koller, Karl
Körner, Paul
Manstein, Erich von
Rüdel, Günther
Weise, Hubert
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Re: Pilot Badge with Diamonds Recipients

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Post by Ruslan M » 08 Jan 2013, 16:17

Hello, Mark!

What is your verdict for this badge? Sorry for the quality..

Source: Pavel Mičianik - Slovenská armáda v ťažení proti Sovietskemu zväzu (Band III)

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Re: Pilot Badge with Diamonds Recipients

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Post by Mark Costa » 08 Jan 2013, 16:46

RuslanL

It is not clear enough to make a certain confirmation but it appears to be a the Slovakian pilots badge which is similiar to the German version. See the previous page of this post for images.

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Re: Pilot Badge with Diamonds Recipients

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Post by Ruslan M » 08 Jan 2013, 17:43

Thanks for your opinion, Mark! But I think it is not so simple as it seems, compare with Catlos's badge. Pay attention to overall proportions, to the ratio of the size of the wings and the rim, angle of the wings (45-50°, absolutely different with our badge) and form of the wings. Of course this could be simple Pilot badge, but this quality not possible to distinguish grade of this. I''ll try to find better. This general is Anton Pulanic, he was commander of Slovak 1. Infantry division and participated in Poland campaign under von Arnim's XVIII. Armeekorps after that he was briefly commander of Slovak Expeditonary Force in Barbarossa. Maybe you'll find something on him.

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Re: Pilot Badge with Diamonds Recipients

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Post by AlifRafikKhan » 19 Mar 2013, 16:26

Rommel wearing the decoration...

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Re: Pilot Badge with Diamonds Recipients

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Post by malvinas82 » 06 Apr 2013, 05:40

Hi Mark, what do you think of this? Alfred Henke, Hitler's pilot and world-breaking record enthusiast.

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Zoom on the badge.

Regards,
Agustin.

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