The badge was issued to all military bombardiers upon completion of basic flight training and advanced bomber instruction.
The regiments were to contain 12 companies, each of six sergeants, six corporals, six bombardiers, six gunners, and 28 matrosses.
Work began in earnest on a variant specifically for training military pilots, bombardiers, and navigators.
Eight did, but the bombardier's parachute was too badly damaged to use.
Pilots, navigators, bombardiers, flexible gunners and other aircrew would arrive and be assigned to newly organized squadrons and groups.
The decoration was intended to recognize the military training and qualification required by those service members who were bombardiers on board military aircraft.
There were now enough bombardiers to meet anticipated needs, so the cadets in the training program underwent more thorough training.
Of that total, 82,252 were classified as pilots, 21, 842 as bombardiers and 14,230 as navigators.
