[HangThemHigh]

In the 2nd paragraph of the 04 May letter, 111th is shown with a superscripted th and it looks to me like the font is a slightly reduced size. Is that possible on a typewriter?

[aft_lizard]

In the 2nd paragraph of the 04 May letter, 111th is shown with a superscripted th and it looks to me like the font is a slightly reduced size. Is that possible on a typewriter?>>


I really dont know. I wasnt even born when these documents were made, but what I have read, and the typewriters I have used in the military it simply isnt done with a typewriter.

[Robert A Cook PE]

To summarize:

No. It is "almost" possible, using a single, very expensive, very-difficult-to-use, very uncommon typewriter of the period.

But it is not reasonable to assume an Air Force fighter-pilot Lt Col is going to sit down and perfectly type such a "memo" to himself and use the colloquialism and superscripts that are evident on the letters.

It is impossible to assume that these are real, unless CBS can produce the originals in the original paper with the real fingerprints of the colonel on the paper.