P-39 AIRACOBRA --- "VICTORY IN EUROPE" -- "V-E DAY" SILVER BROOCH --- LUCILLE M. BELL, WIFE OF LAWRENCE DALE BELL

THE SECOND OF TWO BROOCHES SYMBOLIZING BRITISH AND AMERICAN COOPERATION DURING WORLD WAR TWO. LEFT BEHIND BY LUCILLE M. BELL, (OF 6 LAGOMAR ROAD, PALM BEACH, FLORIDA ), WHO WAS THE WIFE OF LAWRENCE DALE BELL, FOUNDER OF BELL AIRCRAFT CORPORATION. ---- ON MAY 7, 1945, GERMANY SURRENDERED, - ON MAY 8, 1945, DURING A NATION WIDE RADIO ADDRESS, WINSTON CHURCHILL DECLARED - 'VICTORY IN EUROPE" - OR - BETTER KNOWN AS "V-E DAY". - THIS MARKED THE END OF WORLD WAR TWO IN EUROPE. ---- JAPAN SURRENDERED SEPTEMBER 2, 1945, MARKING THE END OF WORLD WAR TWO, WORLD WIDE. ------- IN JULY, 1945, KING PETER II, IN PRIVATE, PRESENTED THE "V-E DAY" BROOCH TO LAWRENCE DALE BELL, FOUNDER OF BELL AIRCRAFT COMPANY. -- ( BOTH BROOCHES WERE PHYSICALLY PLACED IN A "BANK TRUST" FOR OVER 75 YEARS. THEIR EXISTANCE WAS NOT MADE PUBLIC. ) -- KING PETER II, OF YUGOSLAVIA, WAS THE "GODSON" OF KING GEORGE VI AND QUEEN ELIZABETH, THE QUEEN MOTHER, OF GREAT BRITAIN, ( UNITED KINGDOM ). ---- THIS HISTORICAL BELL AIRCRAFT ARTIFACT HAS SEVERAL UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS : 1) MADE OF SOLID SILVER AND PLATIMUM. AND GOLD, --- 2) SLIGHT SLOPED BACK FRONT WINGS. --- 3) ALMOST NO FLAT SURFACES, SURFACES ARE ROUNDED YET PERFECTLY SYMMETRICAL. --- 4) DESIGN IS OF 1940 TO 1945 P-39Q-1, ( P-400 ), AIRACOBRA DESIGN. --- 5) ATTACHING PIN AND CLASP ( PLATIMUM ) RUNS FROM NOSE TO TAIL ALONG THE UNDER BODY OF THE AIRPLANE. --- 6) PIN CLASP INDICATES OF EUROPEAN DESIGN PRIOR TO 1939. EVEN THOUGH THE AIRPLANE DESIGN IS THAT OF THE ACTUAL P-39 AIRACOBRA (1942 -1945). ----- 7) PIN HINGE AND CLASP ARE BOTH DRILLED AND TAPPED -- SCREWS INTO THE BODY. --- 8) THE PROPELLER ( PLATINUM ) IS ON A SHAFT ( THE CENTER CANNON) - ( PLATINUM ), THAT IS ALSO DRILLED AND TAPPED. ---9) THE PROPELLER SPINS AND HAS 3 BLADES. --- 10) FOUR WING MOUNTED GUNS ( PLATINUM ) ARE DRILLED AND TAPPED, GUNS SCREW INTO THE WINGS. --- 11) AIRPLANE IDENTIFICATION MARKINGS INDICATE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE. --- 12) DETAILED ON TOP AND BOTTOM SIDES. --- 13) LEFT TO RIGHT SYMMETRY IS PERFECT. --- 14) THIS ITEM IS MADE OF SILVER AND PLATINUM. --- 15) BOTH EXHAUST GROUPINGS ARE PLATINUM. -- PICKS UP SURROUNDING LIGHT, MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO PHOTOGRAPH, DUE TO THE GLARE. --- 15) UNLIKE MOST BROOCHES, WHERE PARTS ARE SOLDERED ON, THERE ARE NO "SOLDERED ON PARTS" --- THIS ITEM IS MADE WITH "WATCHMAKERS PRECISION" USING "WATCHMAKING TECHNIQUES" (PERFECTLY DRILLED HOLES, PERFECTLY TAPPED AND PARTS ARE THREADED, RESULTING IN A PERFECT FIT). -------------- "GOOGLE" - PART 7 THE BELL P-39 AIRACOBRA BROOCHES COMPAIRED TO GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER'S, RUSSIAN, "ORDER OF VICTORY", COMMENDATION, PRESENTED TO GENERAL EISENHOWER BY JOSEPH STALIN AT THE END OF WORLD WAR TWO. MULTIPLE HIGH DEFINITION PHOTOGRAPHS WERE PROVIDED BY - TROY ELKINS, MUSEUM REGISTRAR, OF -- "THE DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, WHERE THIS COMMENDATION IS ON PERMANENT DISPLAY. --------------"GOOGLE" - PART 9 THE BELL P-39 AIRACOBRA BROOCHES "PRECIOUS METAL ANALYSIS" CONDUCTED BY "KOVED TECHNICAL, LLC.", REPRESENTING -- "THE THERMO-FISHER SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION". ------RESEARCH IS ON GOING. ------ UPDATES TO COME. ---- SEE PART 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, AND 9, FOR A MORE DETAILED HISTORICAL AND EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTING. ----WAYNE H. LONG. (whlong2715@gmail.com) -- VIA PHONE / TEXT, 843-685-9468, U.S.A. ---- UPDATED 7/17/2022.