(Segelflugzeugführerabzeichen)

Date Instituted

16 December 1940

Requirements

Awarded to Qualified pilots of military gliders

Number Awarded

?

Known makers/markings

C.E. JUNCKER


Luftwaffe glider pilot with the Glider Pilot's Badge and the NSFK Large Glider Pilot's Badge

(Courtesy of David Vercruysse)

Comments

It was designed by Ernst Peekhaus.

Sources used

Christopher Ailsby - A collectors guide to the Luftwaffe
Christopher Ailsby - World War 2 German medals and political awards
John R. Angolia - For Führer and Fatherland: Military awards of the Third Reich
David Littlejohn - Orders, decorations, medals and badges of the Third Reich

Reference material on this award

Stijn David - The Glider Pilot Badge