Blue Max

Blue Max is an informal name of Pour le Mérite, a German military decoration from 1740 until the end of World War I.

Blue Max may also refer to:

  • Blue Max (board game), introduced in 1983
  • Blue Max (video game), released in 1983
  • The Blue Max, a 1966 film

Blue Max may also refer to:

  • 2d Battalion, 20th Field Artillery (United States), known as "Blue Max" during the Vietnam War
  • Blue Max, one of protagonists in the video game Sky Kid
  • Blue Max, the band of American guitarist Howard Luedtke
  • Blue Max, a fictional character from The Han Solo Adventures novels

Famous quotes containing the words blue and/or max:

    “... Can poet’s thought
    That springs from body and in body falls
    Like this pure jet, now lost amid blue sky,
    Now bathing lily leaf and fish’s scale,
    Be mimicry?”
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    It must be a moment of great satisfaction in your profession when the bolt is pulled, the noose tightens and you know that your murderer is done for.
    Arnold Phillips, Max Nosseck (1902–1972)