9-1/8x12" display board has 5-5/8x5-5/8" thin artboard affixed w/clear plastic corner mounts. Artboard features pen and ink original art w/image within 3" dia. circle w/hand-lettered squadron name at bottom. Art depicts the insignia of the 306th Bombardment Squadron, a diver holding their nose w/one hand while guiding a bomb w/the other. Activated at Salt Lake City Army Air Base on March 1, 1942, training for bombardment operations w/B-17E aircraft before moving to the UK and flying out of RAF Thurleigh as part of the Eighth Air Force, the 306th was the longest continuously-serving bomb group of the Eighth Air Force during World War II. The 306th led the first mission against a target in Germany and the book/film Twelve O'Clock High are based in large part on events the group participated in during 1942-1943. The 306th continues to this day as the 306th Flying Training Group (306 FTG). Art has handwritten "Red, Yellow And Blue" color notation at upper right and upper left has pasted colored stat of how the finished button would look. Art remains clean and Exc. Comes w/example of the pin. Historic and one-of-a-kind piece for the Pep Pin and Militaria collector. From the archives of premium creators Sam & Gordon Gold.