Retired Pilot badge?

[Luftm40]

Hi, here is an interesting pic from our sister forum. The Gold party badge is interesting, but is that a retired pilot badge on his chest?

[Rich G]

Andy

It's sooooo hard to tell, but I'd guess it's not, because it looks too small (I'm assuming it would be about the same size as a luft parabadge).

It might be a day badge or something?

Rich

[Eric Stahlhut]

maybe

it might be a cut-out WW1 wound badge!

[Rick Research]

I think Eric's right--it looks like a cutout 1918 silver wound badge, with some sort of strange dark "splot" on the right of the helmet-- the wreath matches, and I can see three of the swords making an X behind the helmet.

Can't read the signature, and ribbon bar is too blurry for me.

[ERIC S.]

Meadals out of order

Hi All,
Don't this chaps awards look a little out of precedence? That questionable "wound badge" and what appears to be a Silesian Eagle I class above the EK I class?
ERIC

[Eric Stahlhut]

looks kosher to me!

... but I think the party pin threw the normal order of things out of whack...while the picture may be dated 1941, it may have actually been taken a few years earlier. Otherwise he would have a few more 3rd Reich baubles on his chest.

[W. C. Stump]

NOT A RETIRED PILOT BADGE

I don't think one can in their wildest dreams say that the Wound Badge is a Retired Pilot's Badge. This, of course, is just my opinion.

[Yuri D.]

I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see a period photo of a Retired Pilot's badge being worn on a uniform.

Yuri