Name/Title
Letter - Robert Milner Bear to Mom, Mrs. John L. Bear (Postmarked Sep. 10, 1944)Entry/Object ID
2024.289.128Description
Letter - Robert Milner Bear to Mom, Mrs. John L. Bear (Postmarked Sep. 10, 1944)
Postmark on envelope reads: US Navy, Sep. 10, 1944 | PM
Red 6¢ Air Mail stamp in the top right. Picture on the stamp is of a plane in flight from in front and below showing part of this front and underside. Across the bottom of the stamp it reads: United States Postage. Right above that is Air 6¢ Mail with cents written below the number six.
The white envelope has red and blue hash marks (making them red white and blue) on all four edges and below the area of the stamp is VIA AIR MAIL.
In lower left corner of envelope is a circle ink stamp reading: Passed by Naval Censor with the censor's initials inside the ink stamp circle.
Return Address:
Robert M. Bear, CM 3/c
129th USNCB HDQ. Co.
C/o Fleet P.O.
San Francisco, Calif.
Addressed to:
Mrs. John L. Bear
475 W. Hill St.
Wabash, Indiana
Letter is two pages and written on only one side.