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[[preprinted]] 
H. B. MOORE
TEXAS CITY, TEXAS 
[[/preprinted]]

May 21, 1938

Colonel T. D. Milling
818 Pearl Street
Denver, Colorado

Dear Colonel Milling:

The observance of National Air Mail Week recalls some interesting  incidents relating to aviation which transpired at Texas City back in 1913 when the Second Division of the United States Army was encamped here. An especially significant event is referred to in the National Air Mail Week cachet on the enclosing envelope.

In this connection Col. Moore had expressed a desire to get one of these cachets with a personal note to as many as he might be able to locate of persons either directly associated with or interested in early military aviation; however, a few days since, while enroute to Texas City, he was painfully, though not seriously, injured in an automobile accident and will be confined to a hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for probably another week.

Acting for Col. Moore in his absence, it has occurred to me that to supplement the Postoffice cachet with the enclosed reproduction of a photograph (year 1913) of lieutenants Milling and Sherman in their record-flight ship might be of some interest to you.

Yours very truly,
[[signature]] R. M. Orth [[/signature]]
(For Col. H. B. Moore)

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