A 55th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade "Buzz Bomb" (V-1 Flying Bomb) Badge and Certificate

Item #W3602

$295
Badge in brass, the obverse with multiple pressed points defining the wings, 14 mm x 56.8 mm, horizontal pinback, light contact and spotting, near extremely fine. Accompanied by an Award Certificate (angled heading inscribed "THE BUZZ BOMB BADGE", inscribed "HEADQUARTERS 55TH ANTIAIRCRAFT ARTILLERY BRIGADE" above, the heading framed by two graphics: one of a Buzz Bomb in flight at the right, the other of a cartoon of a soldier punching a Buzz Bomb on its nose and the bomb making a face expressing pain at the left, inscribed "is awarded to S/Sgt. Nicholas M. Erdelack for participation in the destruction of a Diver on 1 December 1944" below, printed in black ink on an off-white paper stock, 180 mm x 240 mm, in a 222 mm x 273 mm period wooden frame under glass, loop on the reverse for wall hanging).