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Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

Need good images and precise system of awards

The Russian guy who is doing for us such thing is in development "trouble" due to bad research (he don't speak in English...)

If you can help - we would be very glad!
Let me know please here.

Hello Oleg

You may remember me from our other discussions... ;o)

I am in India enjoying a vacation travelling on a motorcycle, but I cannot resist looking at the advancement of my favorite game.

Here is the answer to your question. It is simple, but also complicated.

The British Army, Navy and Airforce had a class system, that is, they differentiated between Officers and ordinary soldiers. This applied to the awarding of medals, except in the lowest case, "Mentioned in Despatches", and the highest case, the Victoria Cross.

The British did not like to give out many medals, they gave out less than other nations, and had less types.

Below are the ONLY awards for bravery. All other awards were for non combat service or ordinary service.

Here are the awards for those pilots who are of rank below Officer, ie. Sergeant or Flight Sergeant.

These awards are in order of importance, from lowest to highest.

Mentioned in Despatches: This is a low level award, when a pilot has done favourably, his success can be mentioned in the Official British Military Despatch for the day in the London Gazette newspaper. (which is written every day) The award is an Oak Leaf, and can be seen at this link where one is being sold on Ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=200350019726

Wiki Page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentioned_in_Despatches

Distinguished Flying Medal

This is the first real medal, only awarded to ordinary pilots. A pilot can be awarded many of these, if he gains a second award, the original medal has a 'Bar' added, which is a silver bar across the ribbon.

Wiki Page is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguished_Flying_Medal

Distinguished Conduct Medal

This is the second most important medal an ordinary pilot can win, showing extreme bravery, equivalent to an Officer winning a Distinguished Service Order. Again, there can be several of these medals awarded to the same person, again, if this happens, the original medal is shown with a 'Bar' for each additional award.

Wiki page is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disting..._Conduct_Medal

And finally, there is the Victoria Cross, which can be awarded to either ordinary pilots, or Officers, the very highest award, normally only awarded for extreme personal bravery in the face of the highest challenge. There can also be more than one VC awarded, again, additional are shown by 'Bar', but this is EXTREMELY rare.

Wiki Page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross


Officer's medals

Mentioned in Despatchs (same as above)

Distinguished Flying Cross

This is the same importance as the Distinguished Flying Medal, except it is only given to Officers. A pilot could win a Distinguished Flying Medal when he was a Sergeant, then win a Distinguished Flying Cross when he became an Officer. Multiple awards are show with a "Bar".

Wiki Page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disting...Cross_%28UK%29


Distinguished Service Order

This is the second most important medal an Officer can be awarded, usually only awarded to Squadron Leader or higher rank. Additional awards are shown with a 'Bar'.

Wiki Page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disting..._Service_Order

Victoria Cross

Same as for ordinary pilots, only awarded for extreme personal bravery, very rare.

Wiki page same as above.

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There were also Campaign medals, awarded to pilots who just participated in fighting on a front.

For example a pilot fighting in the Battle of Britain, even if he had no success, would be awarded the 1939-1945 Star with Battle of Britain clasp:

Wiki Page here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939-1945_Star


Hope this is useful information.