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    German made Flight Badge?? ID please

    Hoping somebody can help ID there pins. Large one with swords in the shape plane prop looks German made. Any ideas DSC05062.JPG DSC05064.JPG ?
    Thanks in advance, Cliff
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    I’m gonna move this to General Awards subforum.

    Tom
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      #3
      Hi Cliff,

      The round pin is French for the central shipwreck rescue company. Not sure of the other.

      Best regards,
      Tom
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        #4
        This is going to sound a little strange, but I recognize the symbol at the top of the badge that looks like a flaming cigar flanked by 2 wings and with lightning bolts shooting out in every direction. The French military uses this or a similar symbol to represent military telegraphers and dispatch riders and /or postal couriers. The French word for telegrapher is "Télégraphe" and dispatch rider is "Estafette" and you see both the letters "T" and "E" on the badge. So I wouldn't be surprised if this was some kind of organizational badge for veterans or even active members of these military-trades. In that case, the "M" could stand for "Militaire" and the "S" might stand for "Société".



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        Last edited by Gardereiter; 08-04-2020, 10:56 AM.

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          #5
          It's reminiscent of a KM artillery trade patch but these are pretty generic among Navies around the World.

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          Ian

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            #6
            Originally posted by Ian Hulley View Post
            It's reminiscent of a KM artillery trade patch but these are pretty generic among Navies around the World.
            I agree with you on this flaming winged-cigar resembling the very reconizable naval artillery insignia but the ligtning bolts then become a puzzlement as well as the fact that there is no "A" for "Artillerie" on the badge. A further argument against it being "Artillery" is that the French did not appear to use this logo for their naval artillery units.

            The 6 swords do, in fact, look like artillery short swords so that could be another clue in favor of this being a naval artillery organizational badge.

            I managed to find an example of the symbol I was talking about in Post No.2. It's the French honor medal for telegraphers and dispatch couriers. Note the similarities.
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              #7
              The hexagonal badge is indeed French as well. I tried a reverse image search and found that it is the school badge of the Enseignement militaire supérieur scientifique et technique (EMSST) [Higher Scientific and Technical Military Education].

              https://www.defense.gouv.fr/web-docu...eur/index.html
              https://moodle.ead-minerve.fr/
              Last edited by HPL2008; 08-05-2020, 11:17 AM.

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                #8
                I read the description of the EMSST training curriculum and, for the life of me, I can't figure out why they designed this badge to include a flaming baton with wings, communications-style lightning bolts, and six daggers in the form a propeller. It's almost like they added random symbols that have practically nothing to do with their organization's programs. I just think the French like to confuse people.

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