Luftwaffe ranks for pilots starting as non commissioned officiers by Andy
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with these files the german ranks are altered to:

Unteroffizier
Feldwebel
Leutnant
Oberleutnant
Hauptmann
Major
Oberstleutnant


This was the most common way pilots in the Luftwaffe were promoted. They started their career as non commissioned officiers and mostly were promoted from Feldwebel to Leutnant when they were successful. Some didn't go that way for whatever reasons and went the NCO ladder up being promoted to Oberfeldwebel. But you find only very few Oberfeldwebels in pilots list.

The rank ladder for such a career looks like this (pilots hardly were assigned to active pilot duty at ranks below Unteroffizier):

Flieger
Gefreiter        (private)
Unteroffizier    (corporal)
[Unterfeldwebel] ('subsergeant' seems to have been not very common in LW)
Feldwebel        (sergeant)
[Oberfeldwebel]  ('sergeant 1st class', would have been the next step if you didn't want to become a commissioned officier)
Leutnant
.
.
.


To install these ranks, simply copy the two .str files to your EAW directory.

Have fun,
Andy
