Victory Pacific Day Badge – Morse Code

$6.00

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Badge measures 2.5cm in height on a presentation card 10.5cm x 6.5cm.

On the back is written, “The Morse Code Victory badge is a recreation of the 1945 victory commemoration badge.  The dot dot dot dash on the badge is the Morse Code representation of “V”.  Between 1939 & 1945 almost one million Australian men and women served in the Second World War, fighting in Europe, the Mediterranean and North Africa and, after Japan’s entry into the war in December 1941, across the Asia-Pacific.  Victory in the Pacific Day (VP Day) is commemorated each year on August 15.  Also referred to as VJ Day (Victory over Japan), VP Day commemorates the unconditional surrender of Japan to the Allied Forces on 14 August 1945.”