Blue Max

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The term Blue Max can refer to:

• Pour le Mérite, a German military decoration, known informally as the Blue Max.
• Blue Max (Star Wars), a droid from the Star Wars novels.

Some games and movies, named after the Pour le Mérite:

• Blue Max, a board game simulating World War I dogfighting.
• Blue Max, a video game for the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit computers and the IBM PC.
• The Blue Max, a movie about flying aces set in World War I.
• Blue Max, the character that the second player controls in Namco's 1985 arcade game, Sky Kid.
• Blue Max, the band of Howard Luedtke, also know as Howard "Guitar" Luedtke, the American blues guitarist and musician.
• The Medal of Honor of the Armed Forces of the United States, as it is the country's highest military decoration, and is worn around the neck with a blue pendant and ribbon, is also sometimes nicknamed the Blue Max by US service members.