blood chit การใช้
- The blood chit includes the pilot's name and other unique identifying information.
- A text from one such blood chit translates as follows:
- Now that these modifications are part of the official issue, only " Blood Chits " and other internal linings are added by the aircrew themselves.
- For instance, the blood chit is made of cloth, and is unlikely to have survived relatively intact if the pilot's body had been buried in the jungle for the past 27 years.
- Lundy said Air Force personnel told him the remains also include his father's metal dog tags, laminated ID card and " blood chit, " a cloth document sewn into Air Force pilots'jackets offering a reward in 12 languages for a pilot's safe return.
- Some jackets ( famously, those from the China Burma India Theater, and of the Flying Tigers ) had a " Blood chit " sewn on the lining or outer back, printed on cloth, which promised certain rewards to civilians who aided a downed airman.