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Description:
"Dear Mom: Today I Bagged a Jap Plane With Your Kitchen Fats..."
The serviceman's cover was sent under Free Franking from Fort Riley, Kansas, and was postmarked Junction City, Kansas, November 29, 1944. The Johnson Cover Press cachet was meant to drive home the fact that this was everyone's war.
Date:
November 29, 1944
Markings:
JUNCTION CITY / NOV 29 / 3 PM / 1944 / KANS. [cancel]
Free [handwritten free franking in upper right corner]
Dear Mom: / Today I bagged / a Jap plane with your / kitchen fats — [cachet header]
The South Pacific / Dear Mom: Today I knocked off a Zero / with your kitchen fats. Hard to / believe, but it's true. The grease / you save and turn in goes to make / gunpowder for our guns. / Keep it up, Mom. Your waste fats / make glycerine and glycerine / makes powder for airplane cannons. / Get the neighbors to help, too. You / tell 'em what to do. Save at least / a tablespoonful of fat every day. / Pour it into a can, and as soon as it's / full, rush it to the butcher. In / less than 3 weeks it'll be made / into gunpowder for us. So tell / them to step on it, will you, Mom? / We need it. / Love, / Joe [cachet text]
Medium:
paper; ink; adhesive
Dimensions:
8.9 x 16.5 cm (3.5 x 6.5 in.)
Museum ID:
2002.2035.508
Place of Origin:
Kansas
Place of Destination:
Illinois
Collection:
Transcription:
Dear Mom: Today I Knocked Off A Zero With Your Kitchen Fats . .
Hard To Believe But It's True. The Grease You Save And Turn In Goes To Make Gunpowder For Our Guns. Keep It Up, Mom. Your Waste Fats Make Glycerine and Glycerine Makes Powder For Airplane Cannons. Save At Least A Tablespoonful Of Fat Every Day ...
