Korean War Silk Blood Chit Deerskin and pocket details

and pocket details

16" H × 10" W — largest in the collection

The Gulf War blood chit is effectively the final major-conflict blood chit in the traditional sense — the end of a program that began with WWII

Heavyweight 3

Korean War Silk Blood Chit Deerskin and pocket detailsThe Korean War blood chit was issued to UN forces aircrew flying over the Korean peninsula from 1950 to 1953 a conflict where downed pilots faced a complex survival environment spanning territory controlled by North Korean, Chinese, and South Korean forces simultaneously. The blood chit addressed this directly: it displayed the flags of the United States, Great Britain, South Korea, and the United Nations, and printed survival text in English,