🔎 UNIDENTIFIED What can you tell me about this brass badge? Military? Which branch? How Old?

[cudamark]

Found this in an area with some other older relics. I'm not an expert on this sort of thing, so, hoping you military experts can nail this thing down. Looks stamped brass, but, fairly thick. I see what looks to be one central attaching point on the upper part of the shield. It measures approximately 2 1/8" tall and 2 1/16" wide from wing tip to wing tip. The whole badge is slightly curved, but, that may or may not be the way it was originally.

 

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[robertk]

It resembles a WWII-era US Army hat badge, but I couldn't find an exact match.

 

[RickDDE]

My guess is the 8th Air Force, under the Army Air Corp at that time. WWII.

 

[Retired Sarge]

Based on the size, it's an US Army Officers service cap aka visor cap badge. Normally there is a threaded stud in the center and a smaller pin on the top or pins on both wings just to keep the badge centered. Called swivel pins by some collectors (They don't swivel, they keep them badge from swiveling).

Here's an example from WWII that has the standard two pin configuration, plus an example of an WWII US Army Officer's service/visor cap.

Narrowing down another example like yours can be hard at times. There were the ones made under contract in the US, then there were "Theater Made" ones. Which were made by artisans (British, Italian, German, Japanese, etc) basically where ever the GI's where at.