Airborne Glider Badge
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Airborne Glider Badge is a silver badge 11/16 inch in height and 1 1/2 inches in width consisting of a glider, frontal view, superimposed upon a pair of stylized wings displayed and curving inward.
Airborne Glider Badge
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BM-370
$9.50 USD
Sale price
$9.50 USD
Regular price
SYMBOLISM: The wings suggest flight and together with the glider symbolize individual skills and qualifications in aerial flight utilizing the glider.
AWARD ELIGIBILITY: The Glider Badge is no longer awarded. At the time authorization of the badge was announced, personnel must have been assigned or attached to a glider or airborne unit or to the Airborne Department of the Infantry School; satisfactorily completed a course of instruction, or participated in at least one combat glider landing into enemy-held territory.
DATE APPROVED: Authorization of the Glider Badge was announced in War Department Circular No. 220, 2 June 1944.