Virtual Museum                                                            Hoyt Vandenberg Short Snorter
The Short Snorter Project
Banknote: United States one dollar (Series 1935A Silver Certificate) - Date Posted: 10.3.07
This short snorter belonged to General Hoyt S. Vandenberg and contains signatures collected on a trip over the Atlantic
in June 1942.
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General H.H. "Hap" Arnold


Admiral Louis Mountbatten

W. Averell Harriman


Unidentified



Ed Wagner

Dwight D. Eisenhower























Maj. General Charles P. Gross

J.D. Love, Press Correspondent



Colonel Frank McCarthy
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Stan Stanton, Famous Braniff pilot of the 1930's
Looking for Winston Churchill's Short Snorters

Gary Schulze wrote that the DVD documentary, "Churchill's Bodyguard", is the story of Scotland Yard
Inspector Walter Thompson who was Churchill's personal bodyguard for over twenty years and appears next
to the Prime Minister in every WWII photograph. Commenting about a trip Churchill made to Washington from
London on June 17, 1942, on the flying boat Bristol, Thompson wrote:  "On this trip, a new game gave great
pleasure to the Chief. He was almost boyish in his delight about the way it was played. It was known as 'short
snorter', a game played around a dollar bill. The bill was carried by those who traveled by air across the
Atlantic and the owner collected as many signatures on the bill as possible from other travellers. They must
also be able to produce their bill when challenged. If they could not do so, a fine of $ 1 was levied. Winston's
short snorter was so crammed that he had to have another one as his years of Atlantic travel went on."

Does anyone know where these snorters are preserved? They must be somewhere in
England and it would be great to add scans of these to the website.
Photo taken at the 1942 London Conference. (Courtesy of Gary Schulze)