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 Singapore is a registered company in Singapore who deals with video licensing, distribution and retailing.
• The 2nd Battalion, 20th Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army, known during the Vietnam War as "Blue Max"

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

• Blue Max (Star Wars), a droid from the Star Wars novels.
• 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 known as Howard "Guitar" Luedtke, the American blues guitarist.
• 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.