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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Apr 04, 1942

Page

7

Combat Insignia Stamps Offer San Antonio Light

A call to readers to exchange black and white combat insignia stamps for full color versions via stamped self addressed envelopes. The Light publishes daily a black and white copy. ten copies grant stamps in series from ten to twenty with conditions on requests and delivery.

Combat Insignia San Antonio Broadway Fifth Street Texas Recta Exchange Combat Trilenia Combat Inelgnia Antonio Tight

Once Red Bull Now Mighty Blue in War and Stamp Request

The letter from a Delaware farmer to Lt Col D B Gunn, judge advocate of the Second Army Corps, recounts a November pasture incident where a tank ran into his bull near Jim's Run, blaming the color shift from red to blue and humorously prompting a stamp-series offer. The army contemplates issuing a continuation of apesquoogs, with collectors asked to send black and white copies from The Light along with a form letter.

Wilmington Del INS Lient D. Bf. Gunn Second Army Corps Federal Army Wes Idlesvilla Jim Harris Sui

Chip This Stamp and the Pearl Harbor Vermin War

A wartime item uses insect control imagery to urge a cleansing campaign against perceived threats. It describes Fighting Squadron Seventy two with an emblem of a blue burglar and an insect predator attacking a spider nest. The piece blends metaphor with military language to promote action at home.

Freedom Loring Pearl Harbor Epider Sofara

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