Post Your Short Snorters

For those that might not know what a Short Snorter is, it is a piece of currency, normally a one dollar bill, signed by a group of soldiers during WW II. The traditional Snort Snorter is signed by all the people on a bomber going on a mission:

I picked up the following Short Shorter at my coin club's coin show and it is unusual for two reasons, one it is an 1899 $2 bill, where would a soldier get that bill in 1940 something and second, it has his name, date, and mission on it.

 

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In 1899 that bill would only be 41 years old.
Not that much of a long time then.
Interesting notes. Thanks for sharing.

 

A lot of military personnel took (and still to this day take) an item or trinket from home as luck. I like this guys choice. Thanks for sharing!

 

I'm a veteran and when I left for basic training my wife gave me a gold French Angel coin to carry with me. I guess it worked, I was a Combat Medic and we had the highest casualty rate in combat, but I made it home.

 

Have you tried to find out more about the signers?

 

Thank you for your service. Hang on to the lives you saved.

 

Fabulous!!! Short Snorters are all great, & each one is a one-of-a-kind. Thanks for sharing!

 

I have about 500 short snorters. Here is one of my favorites. It starts with Richard Bong.



Then comes General George Stratemeyer.



Then Hap Arnold

Finally, Jimmie Doolittle


The remaining signatures are mostly WACs. There are 24 notes in the entire roll.

 

Very cool! Thanks for posting.

 

We tore a bill in half and if we made it home we would call them.

 

Sweet Jesus!!! I assume you have children to pass that on to, but if not, that's a snorter I'd be interested in buying...

 

Excellent grouping of signatures @lettow. Very impressive set of names there.

 

A nice Hawaii note I picked a few years ago.

 

Four Jills in a Jeep: Kay Francis, Martha Ray, Mitzi Mayfair and Carole Landis.

 

Twenty-one pilots and two ground crew of the China National Aviation Corporation.

 

This piece survived the sinking of HMT Tuscania in WWI in the pocket of Captain Allen A. Jones of Toledo.

 

Great item in a fantastic collection.

 

This piece survived the sinking of the SS Cape San Juan and turned into a memorial for the three members of the 253rd Ordnance Maintenance Company who did not survive. The staining on the note is oil from the ship.

 

I wrote an article about Short Snorters and re-wrote it several times as I did more research.

https://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com/2016/09/short-snorters.html

 

I got this last month at a local coin show. It was inexpensive (five bucks). From the scotch tape at the bottom, you can see that this was part of a streamer or a roll that some idiot broke up. After I made my scans, I gave it to a public affairs photographer in my unit.