[Thomas H]

Hi Peter,

I don't think missions flown in Spain were added to their number of missions in WW2 to earn medals/badges quicker. I think these men got their clasps purely for their actions during WW2

The star pennant was indeed for 300 "Frontflügen" before the numbered pennants were introduced.

The part where the answer to your question may lie is the difference between a "Feindflug" and a "Frontflug". It is called the Frontflug Spange. So Kurt Seyfarth could have flowns just 296 missions (Feindflügen) but some of his missions were counted as 2, 3 or 4 Frontflügen, depending of the number of hours the mission took.

So is most cases a Feindflug is the same as a Frontflug. But I believe when the mission is longer than 4hours is counts double. When it is counted as 3 or 4 I don't know, but examples are known.

Regards, Thomas