4000 Plus Missions.....

[Gary B]

A new clasp to the collection (Transport) so took a quick photo on the iPhone.

Gary B

[Sebastien T]

Well that is a great addition Gary, awesome clasp

BTW the RK

Seb

[Brian S]

löv it gary

[Hein]

I love it too.

[Gary B]

Thanks, gents! I wish they could talk!

(Seb, good eye...it is an RK)

Gary B

[Thomas Durante]

Indeed lovely addition Gary. Wonderful line up you have there, can't be too many fliers out there with 1800 sorties.

Tom

[waterloo]

Auch wenn ich nun Salz in die Suppe streue,
bei diesen Anhängern mit extrem hohen Einsatzzahlen handelt es sich , wenn überhaupt um nicht verliehene Teile.
Beim Sammeln sollte man auch den Kontext mit der historischen Wirklichkeit im Auge behalten. Es gab keinen Flugzeugführer oder Bordfunker der Zerstörer mit 1800 Frontflügen.
Gruß waterloo

[Brian S]

Indeed lovely addition Gary. Wonderful line up you have there, can't be too many fliers out there with 1800 sorties.

Tom

Waterloo, I disagree, I believe there WERE some. Several missions often flew in one single day.

[blind pew]

Waterloo, I disagree, I believe there WERE some. Several missions often flew in one single day.

Agreed. Just watching a program on the stuka. During Stalingrad and Kursk, Stuka pilots sometimes flew five missions in a single day. I found that somewhat remarkable.

[Brian S]

Night fighters even went up sometimes twice maybe more. Afrika fighter pilots like Marseille went up many times in a single day.

[Gary B]

Waterloo,

Perhaps I misunderstood your message but the two pictured clasps with the 1800 pendants are the Transport clasp and the Short Range Day Fighter. The Long Range Night Fighter clasp and Long Range Day Fighter/Destroyer both have pendants which indicates 250 flights and 400 flights respectively. Both obtainable considering the mid 1942 institution dates for both.

Gary B

[Hein]

Missions

Gary,

aigain, this clasp´s are very beautifull.
Are there any Lists of missions of the german luftwaffe.
The Day fithers Hartmann > 800 missionen, Barkhorn > 1100 missions.
But what´s withe the Stuka and Bommbers (Rudel, yes i know).
Who knows thomething?
KR
Hein

[Gary B]

Hein,

I am unaware of any list showing number of missions flown by Luftwaffe personnel. I normally see number of missions flown listed in pilot biographies but that is all.

I have seen bomber clasps with 1300 and 1500 mission pendants and know of one with 1800 missions on it.

Another option that has been mentioned is that some of these clasps with high numbered pendants were assembled for sale and never purchased (store displays).

Gary B

[Tim Calvert]

Gary,

Congrats and thanks for sharing.

As far as nightfighters racking up huge numbers of missions we have a good thread on that already....

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...light=missions

And here is Obermeier's list of Stuka and Schlachtflieger's mission totals over 1000....

[Gary B]

Tim,

Thanks for posting the list of missions for Stuka and Ground Attack flyers- I have never seen that list before.

As mentioned in the other linked NJG thread (also kindly provided by Tim), the regulations, which evolved over time, did initially allow for a flyer to wear the flight bar that represented his new unit affiliation/mission with a hanger reflecting the total number of missions he had earned. That regulation later changed to only allow flyers to wear the clasp that represented the unit/mission they had flown the greatest number of missions with regardless of their current unit/mission assignment.

For a simplistic example if a bomber pilot flew 99 missions early in the war and transferred to a day fighter unit he would received the gold fighter clasp on his next mission. Later in the war if he flew 99 bomber missions and 1 fighter mission he would received the gold bomber clasp.

Gary B