Hi all. I got this Australia 10 Shillings Short Snorter together with this 1 Pound note, and others, for peanuts at a local auction. I don't know these notes' years of issue, but using the handwritten inscription "Jan. 1, 1944 Port Moresby" I found out some things. Thinking that date significant, I looked it up together with the location and find that the only activity recorded there and then was the transfer of the 500th Bomber squadron, of the 345th Bomb Group, was transferred to Dobodura that day. http://www.pacificwrecks.com/60th/1944/1-44.html Here is more on the 345th: http://www.345thbombgroup.org/history_index.php Confounding this notion, however, is the fact that the first (and only) name I have hit on yet was an enlisted Army man. Good news is he survived the war, but died in 1969, resident of Kings, NY. I know many infantry soldiers gathered at Port Moresby in preparation to invade the Philippines, and many signed short snorters at this time. But other locations written on the bill suggest Navy or Air Force to me: Brisbane, Milne Bay, Aura Bay, and what looks like.... Zinchaseu? Zinchavew? Zinchauen? Anyone who wants to feel free to look into it. I hope to find and make contact with one of the original signers one day. What year ARE these notes, anyway?
