The Snapshots in Time Collection
Censored Mail Envelope, Bomb Fuze Safety Pin Tag, and Letter from Cpl./2Lt. Chic Banchiere, 464th Bombardment Group, 1944
This grouping of wartime mail, a bomb fuze safety pin tag, and a handwritten letter documents the correspondence of an airman with the 464th Bombardment Group, a B-24 Liberator unit of the Fifteenth Air Force. Writing home after his first combat mission in November 1944, he sent his family a small souvenir: the safety tag from a bomb fuze, alongside a letter describing his experience. Project: 218162