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Catalog Number |
1986.4.1 |
Object Name |
Pin, Military |
Description |
U.S. Air Force observer lapel pins. Also one for Ass. Chief and one for Chief. White circle that reads United States Air Force, underneath the circle it reads "observer" and it has silver wings on each side of the circle. The Ground Observer Corps was a World War II Civil Defense program of the United States Army Air Forces to protect against air attack. The 1.5 million civilian observers at 14,000 coastal observation posts used naked eye and binocular searches to search for German and Japanese aircraft until the program ended in 1944. |