Flight time requirements for Front Flying Clasps?

[LukeFF]

A book I have on German awards of World War II states that the Front Flying Clasps could be awarded either for missions flown or for completing a certain number of flight hours. Unfortunately, the author doesn't specify what those hours were. Does anyone happen to know what they were?

[Aap]

The criteria was about number of missions. 20 missions for bronze, 60 missions for silver and 110 missions for gold. Pennants under the clasps for round numbers beyond that. The hour-part comes in that extra long missions could count as two sorties, but hours were not tracked separately for the criteria.

[JG300_Egon]

+1 with Kemp

 

However to take an operationnal flight into account, it has to meet certain criterias :

 

Ennemy engaged

Or if the ennemy was not engaged, flying behind ennemy lines (I don't remember if it was at least 20 km behind)

 

 

Edited December 5, 2019 by F/JG300_Egon

[LukeFF]

Guys, please reread what I wrote: ? I know about the mission requirements, but mission credits could also be awarded based on a given number of hours. I'm guessing it was something like 1 mission credit for every 2 hours flown, but I'd like to know for sure what it was. 

[JG300_Egon]

In the book Kampflieger : Bomber Crewman of the Luftwaffe 1939-45 it is written :

 

A flight for more that X hours over ennemy territory :

 

• More than 4 hours is counted double (2 missions) ;
• More than 8 hours is counted triple (3 missions) ;
• More than 12 hours is counted quadruple (4 missions) ;
• More than 16 hours is counted quintuple (5 missions).

 

Those criterias are mostly for bomber /transport/ reconnaissance crews.

 

Precision about my previous post :

Is considered "operationnal" a flight with :

 

• Minimum of 30km into ennemy airspace ;
• or 100km overseas outside German borders ;
• or If the ennemy is engaged.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 6, 2019 by F/JG300_Egon

[LukeFF]

On 12/6/2019 at 5:30 AM, F/JG300_Egon said:

In the book Kampflieger : Bomber Crewman of the Luftwaffe 1939-45 it is written :

 

A flight for more that X hours over ennemy territory :

 

• More than 4 hours is counted double (2 missions) ;
• More than 8 hours is counted triple (3 missions) ;
• More than 12 hours is counted quadruple (4 missions) ;
• More than 16 hours is counted quintuple (5 missions).

 

Those criterias are mostly for bomber /transport/ reconnaissance crews.

 

Thank you! That was the sort of info I was looking for.

[JG300_Egon]

You're welcome.