Pilot Badge with Diamonds Recipients

[malvinas82]

Thanks Mark! Here's another recipient standing next to GFM Sperrle... do you have his name?



Regards,
Sepp/Malvinas

[Mark Costa]

Sepp:

Impossible to see his face here. This is a Condor Legion Uniform but who is might be is not known. Maybe Rothmann. But its impossible to make a determination from this photo above. The more I look at this photo is might be Martin Harlinghausen as well. ??

Mark Costa

[von thoma]

This is a Condor Legion Uniform...

Not, it's a Nationalist Aviation uniform.
Could be Alfonso de Orleans y Borbón, Infante of Spain and Duke of Galliera,of the Nationalist Aviation.
These kind of cap was used frequently by Alfredo Kindelán chief of the Nationalist Aviation during SCW.

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I think is the same man :

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A picture of Alfonso de Orleans y Borbón.



Photo:http://nacionespanola.net/index.php?tit ... Kindel%E1n and -http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8994 and -http://chipionacronista.blogspot.com.es/

[Mark Costa]

Von Thoma:

Many thanks. I had first thought it was your man but then the three stars on the uniform threw me into thinking it was a Condor Legion uniform. Now I see what you said about the hat. I agree it is probably Borbón.

Mark

[Mark Costa]

Steen Ammentorp from http://www.generals.dk/ has suggested that the man in the photo here is Mario Bernasconi. And it appears that he is correct. The man in the photo shows all the same charachteristics. This make Bernasconi the 87th confirmed recipient of the PO Badge with Diamonds. The list continues to grow. Another possible recipient that needs to be added is Hans Phillipp. He is going into the "possible" category until he can confirm one way or the other.

Mark

[Mark Costa]

Here is my updated list of all 87 confirmed recipients of the Combined Pilot / Observer Badge with Diamonds.

Mark Costa


Angerstein, Karl
Antonescu, Ion
D' Astier de la Vigerie Moraglia, Francois
Balbo, Italo
Bär, Heinz
Baumbach, Werner
Below, Nicolaus von
Bernasconi, Mario
Blomberg, Werner
Bodenschatz, Karl
Bourbon, Alfonso de Orleans Y
Brauchitsch, Bernd von
Catlos, 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
Gollob, Gordon M.
Göring, Hermann
Görnnert, Fritz Dr.-Ing
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 Günther
Kren, Vladimir
Lent, Helmut
Loerzer, Bruno
Löhr, Alexander
Lützow, Günther
Mannerheim, Carl Gustav
Marseille, Hans Joachim
Milch, Erhard
Mölders, Werner
Navratil, Fredrick Miroslav
Nowotny, Walter
Oesau, Walter
Parani, Alberto
Paul of Yugoslavia, Prince
Peltz, Dietrich
Petitjean-Roget, Albert
Pflugbeil, Kurt
Ramcke, Bernhard Hermann
Reitsch, Hanna
Richthofen, Dr.- Ing. Wolfram von
Rommel, Erwin
Rudel, Hans Ulrich
Sandalli, Renato
Schmidlein, ?
Schnaufer, Heinz-Wolfgang
Seidel, Hans-Georg
Skorzeny, Otto
Sperrle, Hugo
Stauffenberg, Melitta Schenk Gräfin von
Stehlin, Paul
Student, Kurt
Stumpff, Hans Jürgen
Teucci, Giuseppe
Trettner, Heinrich
Udet, Ernst
Uzelac, Emil (Milan)
Valle, Victor G.
Vuillemin, Joseph
Wenninger, Rudolf
Wever, Walter
1 Unknown French Officer --shown wearing the badge



POSSIBLES:
Baur, Hans
Diesing, Ulrich
Fraff, ?
Koller, Karl
Körner, Paul
Manstein, Erich von
Philipp, Hans
Rüdel, Günther
Wiese, Hubert

[Mark Costa]

A nice photo of Gustav Kastner-Kirdorf wearing the CPO Badge with Diamonds.

Mark Costa

[Mark Costa]

Can anyone identify the Romanian Air Force General in these three photos taken at Göring's Train HQ's ?? The man is wearing the CPO Badge with Diamonds is now another recipient of this rare badge. I believe him to be Gen. esc. av. Gheorghe Jienescu Thank you.

Mark Costa

[Mark Costa]

Another Romanian officer taken at the same time as the photos above shows this young officer also wearing the CPO Badge with Diamonds. Any ideas as to who this might be?? He looks like the ace Tudor Greceanu. Thanks.

Mark Costa

[malvinas82]

Bulgarian holder on the background?



At left is the german Luftwaffen-Attaché Karl-August von Schönebeck


Regards,
Malvinas/Sepp

[Mark Costa]

Sepp:

It appears that both Bulgarian Generals might be wearing the diamond badge. The man on the right is the commander in Chief of the Bulgarian Air Force General Boidev. Notice a pilot badge next to the Order of the German Eagle. But in this photo it might be the regular badge. I have posted a photo of him wearing what appears to be a standard badge although it could be the "wearers" version of the diamond badge. The man in the middle appears to be Air Force general Atasanov and he DOES appear to be wearing Diamond badge. Hard to believe that Boidev would not himself, have a diamond badge if one of his own generals had one !! But at this point they need to be put in the "possibles" column along with the two Romanian officers above until more evidence comes to light. The two Romanians are definitely wearing diamond badges -- we just need confirmation of their names as I indicated in the posts above.

Mark

[Mark Costa]

A couple of nice photos of Bulgarian King Boris wearing his Diamond badge.

Mark Costa

[malvinas82]

Wonderful information and photos, Mark! Thanks! I'll to find a good frontal photo of Gen. Atasanov.

Regards,
Malvinas/Sepp

[malvinas82]

Reichmarschall Hermann Göring

During, in 1945 when he surrendered. His badge with Diamonds, visible.


Photo when it was in Eric Campion's collection.

Göring's badge is currently in the collection of Christopher Ailsby. Credits to him.

[Mark Costa]

Attached are photos of the 88th confirmed recipient of the Combined / Pilot Observer Badge with Diamonds -- Otto Hoffmann von Waldau. I had him on the list years ago but could never find any photographic evidence of him wearing the badge. I recently found a video of him that bears out his receipt of the badge.

Also we still need confirmation for the identities of the 2 Romanians and 2 Bulgarians in photos above. I will keep them in the "possibles" category until we can officially name them.

Mark Costa