How about some identification ?

[Robert Noss]

Hope I am not too boring for You, but maybe someone can identify the two Luftwaffe officers on that photo, both wearing their 1st WW decorations.



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Thanks in advance.

Robert

[stogieman]

Okay!

Both officer's are wearing the Imperial Observer Badge, as well as what looks like the WW2 Luftwaffe Observer Badge. The fellow on the right has what looks like the Bavarian version, while the one on the left, it looks like the Prussian Badge.

[AOK4]

Isn't the right one wearing some Saxon orders? Something for Rick Stogieman perhaps?

Jan

[Dave Danner]

The guy on the right appears to have the EK2, Bavarian MVO, Saxon Albert Order, ?(Saxon ZDO?) and FKE.

The other guy has what looks like the EK2, Oldenburg FA Cross with "Vor dem Feinde" clasp, FKE, and Bulgarian Military Order for Bravery.

Dave

[Rick Research]

I agree except I think the officer on the right has a ? Saxon Civil Merit Order before his Albert. These are too blurred to go by the awards, instead I will see about matching faces among the Generals.

From the darkness of the tabs, they look like staff officers at the Air Ministry, ca 1935.

Unfortunately due to family problems I don't have much "on line" time this week. I can't download your scans because they are in Bitmap and not jpeg format, Robert, so I can't print them out to see about matching faces to generals offline.

OK< I'm back. I looked in the Reichsheer 1928 list, and neither officer was on army active duty then. Because both wear the Prussian observer badge, we can tell they weren't naval flyers.

I suspect they were both (E) officers.

PS I can "see" an "invisible" shadowed Oldenburg Friedrich August Cross FIRST Class under the Oberstleutnant's pocket forming a classic + pattern with four pinback awards. The light colored diagonal "scratch" is at the same angle on its top and right as viewed arm tips as on the EK1 centered above it.