Pilot Killed Carrying This RPPC In A Plane Crash Rock Springs Wyoming 1921.

1921 US Airmail Cover United States Aerial Mail Service, sent from Tijuana Mexico to Omaha Nebraska via San Francisco to Chicago with the plane crash occuring during an attempted landing at Rock Springs, Wyoming.

Pilot, Walter Mills Bunting was killed on impact, May 5, 1921.

Walter Bunting served in the US Army during WWI, stationed in Douglas, Arizona with the United States Army Border Air Patrol after WWI.  His job was to stop Mexican bandit raids along the border.

In 1920, Bunting took a job with the United State Aerial Mail Service.  He survived to earlier plane crashes before being killed in the Rock Springs crash.

Both his cousin and nephew, Raymond and Bruce Bunting, pilots during WWII, were killed in action.

This product is a vintage Real Photo Postcard (RPPC) from 1921 depicting an aviation theme of a plane crash in Rock Springs, Wyoming. The postcard features an original photograph of the crash site and was posted with a stamp. The pilot carrying this RPPC was killed in the crash, adding historical significance to the item. It is a single unit and was manufactured in the United States during the Real Photo era (1900-Now).