Awards and Decorations
Command pilot
| Distinguished Service Medal | |
| Legion of Merit | |
| Distinguished Flying Cross (with oak leaf cluster) | |
| World War I Victory Medal | |
| American Defense Service Medal | |
| American Campaign Medal | |
| Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (with three campaign stars) |
World War II Victory Medal
Order of Cloud and Banner (Republic of China)
Order of the Crown of Italy (Grand Officer)
Combat Observer
Technical Observer
Hegenberger also received the 1927 Mackay Trophy, the 1934 Collier Trophy, and was a Fellow of the Institute of Aeronautical Engineers.
- Dates of promotion
- Private First Class, Signal Enlisted Reserve Corps, 14 September 1917
- Second Lieutenant, Signal Officers Reserve Corps; 6 April 1918
- First Lieutenant, Air Service; 1 July 1920
- Captain, Air Corps; 3 January 1932
- Major (temporary), 2 October 1935
- Major, Air Corps; 15 August 1939
- Lieutenant Colonel (temporary), 30 December 1940
- Lieutenant Colonel, Air Corps; 18 December 1941
- Colonel (temporary), 5 January 1942
- Colonel, Army of the United States, 8 June 1942
- Brigadier General (temporary), 18 September 1943
- Major General (temporary), 7 September 1945
- Brigadier General (permanent), 19 February 1948, with date of rank from 19 September 1943
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