Name/Title
Letter - Robert Milner Bear to Mom, Mrs. John L. Bear (Postmarked Jun. 28, 1944)Entry/Object ID
2024.289.115Description
Letter - Robert Milner Bear to Mom, Mrs. John L. Bear (Postmarked Jun. 28, 1944)
Postmark on envelope reads: US Navy, Jun. 28, 1944 | AM
Envelope is a white Air Mail envelope with a blue and red stripe running horizontal in the middle.
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 word "Via Air Mail" is written horizontally between the red and blue strip on the right side of the envelope.
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
2nd USN Const. Brigade
Unit 7
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.