German V-1 Buzz Bomb (Greencastle, Indiana)

 monument, war memorial, missile on display

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One of only two WW II V-1 German Buzz Bombs in the U.S., Greencastle's Nazi rocket trophy
is mounted on v-shaped concrete pillars, poised as if gliding into downtown.

According to the Putnam County Convention and Visitors Bureau: "It came into the Navy's
possession during the war and was shipped to a naval base in Virginia. After the war,
members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1550 in Greencastle asked the government
for a buzz bomb to make a war memorial. That required legislation being passed in
both houses of the U.S. Congress."

"The first nose on the bomb was a garbage can cover. Because the nose was a fuse,
it wasn't shipped. However, another bomb was acquired and a new nose was fabricated."

Inscription : This war machine is a German built V-1, commonly known as a "Buzz Bomb."
Adolf Hitler unleashed the V-1, precursor of the cruise missile, against London in 1944.
It was a new German weapon, literally a "flying bomb." Officially it was simply FZG-76.
The pilotless anti-aircraft designation was a ruse to throw allied spies off track.
In Britain, it was known as the "doodlebug." This is one of two "Buzz Bombs" in the
United States. The other is in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. It is
intended as a memorial to those who lost their lives in World War II from Putnam county.