World War II - Story: History of the Buzz Bomb retold- by Maribeth Ward
One of the most unusual war memorials in the USA is located on the southwest corner of the Putnam County Courthouse. It is a WW II German Buzz Bomb. The story of how it came to Putnam County is almost as interesting as having a German bomb as a tribute to the many Putnam County residents who died in the war. Frank Durham was serving as a reservist in Maryland in 1946. He heard about a number of captured German armaments that had been shipped to the United States for storage. The government was about to junk them because of space issues. Durham, with the help of the Greencastle Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 1550, managed to get a hold of the bomb. Making it into a war memorial would be a much more daunting task.
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