Trying to ID a Blood Chit

[mnehring]

Do you have some images?

[mass55th]

It would be helpful if pictures of the two items were posted. If you aren't able to do that, you might want to contact the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Virginia. Here's the website address:

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[IYAS9YAS]

I can tell you what the other language is, and, if Korean, can translate for you.

Blood chits were exactly that. They were issued to flyers in the hopes that, if they were downed behind enemy lines, the flyer could find someone sympathetic to him and give the person a blood chit. The chit was usually good for currency but only good if the airman was returned alive to U.S. or friendly forces.

[2banana]

Just look at the hand receipt he signed. And BTW - it is the property of the US military and they actual track blood chits pretty strictly - even from 50 years ago. As their presence could lead to MIAs or POWs or buried servicemen...

[brytlea]

I have an image my husband scanned, but it’s not a picture, it’s pdf (no idea why he saved it like that). I will see if I can get a picture of the other one (they are just the same, only different material).

susie

[brytlea]

What hand reciept?

[mnehring]

You can try this program. There is a free trial.
http://www.pdf-to-jpg.com/

[2banana]

What hand reciept?

That was satire. When the US Miltiary gives something to a soldier/airman that they want back (like a rifle, tank, tent, etc.) they make you sign a hand receipt for it to prove you received it. Stuff they don't back (food, ammo, clothing) they just give you.

[CholeraJoe]

When I outprocessed from the USAF, they took back all of my flight gear including the Nomex underwear I wore under my flight suit. I asked if they were going to reissue it to someone else. The reply was, “No, we destroy it with scissors. But we have to account for it.” Like I was going to sell my used fire-proof undies to the Chinese?

[brytlea]

Oh.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Like I was going to sell my used fire-proof undies to the Chinese?"

No, but they didn't want you to have an unfair advantage on Free Republic.

[LDO4CNO]

In the Navy we only do that to those that didn't make it through training (fallen angels) or court martial etc.
In fact when I retired, I got a brand new nomex summer flight jacket with all my go to hell patches sewn on for me.

[Snoopers-868th]

www.armyairforces.com might be able to help you if the person was in the air corp.

[CholeraJoe]

Most of my stuff was worn enough that it couldn’t be reissued. But USAF regs required it be accounted for before disposal. I did get to keep my boots, though. They rotted finally.

[Captain Rhino]

- Open the pdf.
- Push the “print screen” key on your key board. (Usually in the upper right hand corner.)
- Open MSPaint
- Under Edit, select Paste. Screen image will appear.
- Push the “Esc” key (usually in the upper left hand corner)to exit edit mode and lock the image into the frame.
- Under File, select “save as.”
- When the Save As dialogue box opens, give the file a name and save it as either a .jpeg or .gif file.
- You now have an image you can post to Free Republic.

[snippy_about_it]

You didn’t mention Vietnam but the usmcpress.com mentions the American flag being part of the “new” Chits during the Vietnam era:

During the war in Vietnam the fighter, attack, and helicopter crews carried new blood chits. These chits displayed the American flag, plus an appeal in 14 languages: English, Burmese, Thai, Old Chinese, New Chinese, Laotian, Cambodian, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Visayan, Malayan, French, Indonesian, and Dutch. The wording in each language was the same:

[snippy_about_it]

I'd like to also mention that since you say it has his name on it and doesn't look like any you've seen on the internet that he may have had it made for himself. See this link.

[brytlea]

This is just a photocopy scan, so of course it's not in color. I removed his name, that's the gray bar underneath the flag.

[brytlea]

I think he got out before VN.