cWW2 United States Army Air Force (USAAF) Aerial Gunner Bracelet Badge

WWII U.S. Army Air Force Aerial Gunner Wings sweetheart bracelet badge USAAF. Although not marked has a silver patina. VGC.


The Aerial Gunner Badge was a military aircrew badge of the United States Army Air Forces and was issued during the Second World War. The badge was first created and authorized on April 29, 19431 to recognize both the training and hazardous duty of aerial gunners, who manned defensive machineguns on board such aircraft as the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Consolidated B-24 Liberator, North American B-25 Mitchell, Martin B-26 Marauder and Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers. The Aerial Gunner Badge appeared as a standard observer badge, upon which was centered a winged bullet. It was primarily awarded to USAAF enlisted aircrewmen, but a small number of commissioned officers also qualified and were awarded this insignia, to include film actor Clark Gable.

The Aerial Gunner Badge was issued until 1953, in the newly created United States Air Force (1947). The Aerial Gunner Badge was declared obsolete and phased out in favor of the Aircrew Badge.

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