First-class pilot receiving officer promotion and praise (8)
Definition
promotion and praise
Wordplay type
Charade
Explanation
An envelope (‘receiving’) of CO (commanding ‘officer’) in ‘a’ plus CLADE ( Emil , WW11 Luftwaffe ‘pilot’). … but see russtoo @2 for a parsing which avoids the name unfamiliar to many (at the expense of using ACE in two adjacent answers).
Source: Fifteensquared
Answer
ACCOLADE