Name/Title
Letter - Corp. H.H. Walter USMC to Mom, Mrs. John L. Bear (Postmarked Aug. 25, 1944)Entry/Object ID
2024.289.125Description
Letter - Corp. H.H. Walter USMC to Mom, Mrs. John L. Bear (Postmarked Aug. 25, 1944)
Postmark on envelope reads: US Navy, Aug. 25, 1944 | 2:30PM
Envelope is a white Air Mail envelope with a blue and red stripe running horizontal across the bottom and with the blue and red reversed, up the right side.
Green 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 word "Via Air Mail" is written in the bottom right corner.
On the left side of the envelope in ink is written Air Mail.
Return Address:
Corp. H.H. Walter, USMC.,
1 - HQ - 28,
Camp Pendleton,
Oceanside, Calif.
Addressed to:
Mrs. John L. Bear
475 W. Hill St.
Wabash, Indiana
Letter is two pages and written on only one side. Letterhead on the stationary (both pages) is the Marine Corps Anchor & Globe and below it reads:
United States Marine Corps
Camp Joseph H. Pendleton
Oceanside, California
