[CedarDave]

I just read my reply on the screen. I used html to generate the superscripts:

tttt^tttt

They appear damn similar to the ones in the memo. Notice that the superscript "t" is made automatically smaller than the usual "t". If any standard issue typewriter could do that in 1972, I would certainly like to know about it. Even the selectrics, which were state of the art then, did not have that capability as far as I know. Certainly you could go up 1/2 line to make a superscript, but it was the same size. You changed balls when you wanted special symbols, but I don't remember and haven't come across any that not only made superscripts but made them smaller, also. I vote for a forgery.

[Southack]

To get the smaller superscript size back in 1972, you'd either need a special font or else change out the element in the old IBM Selectric or Executive for those two letters "th", followed by changing that ball/element back for the rest of the memo.

Ain't no way. No way that a Lt. Col in 1972 was doing the small size superscript on his own informal memo (and the memo would have to be informal to omit the letterhead and acceptance box and have no CC list and no clerk's initials).

The font spacing is also a dead giveaway, as is the incorrect terminology of "physical examination" instead of "Medical". The signatures are also suspect. In fact, most memos back then WERE IN ALL CAPS LIKE THIS.

They're forgeries.

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