The Short Snorter Project will be exhibiting at the ANA National Money Show in Colorado Springs March 14-16.The ANA is graciously providing 5 tables for the exhibit and, for ease of setup and directions, I have been assigned Table 100.

I woke up in the middle of the night and thought to dedicate the exhibit to the 100th Bombardment Group which coincides with the release of The Masters of the Air on Apple TV+ last month. Masters of the Air is based upon characters who flew B-17s with the 100th Bomb Group ("The Bloody Hundredth") which operated out of Thorpe Abbotts airfield in England. (My uncle was a B-17 navigator in the 384th Bomb Group which operated out of Grafton-Underwood.)

Donn Pearlman wrote a press release for the ANA which I forwarded to the 100th Bomb Group Foundation and I received an email back from Director Chris Barrett who shared the attached short snorter that belonged to his wife's great uncle, Flight Officer Harry Edeburn, who was a co-pilot with the 100th BG and succumbed to his wounds on September 6, 1943. We are putting together another new exhibit that will be on display in Colorado Springs. If you have been watching Masters of the Air, so far they have mentioned the names of 5 men who signed the Edeburn snorter: Marasco, Barnhill, Adams, Schmalenbach, and Van Noy. There was 100% casualty rate for the men who signed this snorter. Amazing stuff!

This is the verbiage from the exhibit panel:

As part of that Colorado Springs trip, I am giving a lecture about the short snorter tradition at the U.S. Air Force Academy on March 14th to a History of the Second World War class of cadets.

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