A response from the Air Force Historical Studies Office (AFHSO) came back much faster than I had anticipated. Surprisingly, it took less than a week. Maybe people who work at the DMV should be required to attend some kind of militaristic style boot camp to learn about efficiency and courtesy. Anyhow, they scanned the actual card and emailed me a PDF file. They aslo composed a text description decoding the card. I’ve posted their message as well as some screenshots of the PDF they sent me.
As a note, there was no charge for this. I just had to send an email with the request. Check out this post if you want to find out how to submit your own request. If anyone at the AFHSO happens to stumble across this blog post let me say thank you very much for the quick response.
I still haven’t heard back from the National Air and Space Museum. If I do I’ll post their response as well.
From the AFHSO
The aircraft was shipped via New Orleans to Kisarazu, Japan for assembly
then returned to the USA. There is no addition information on the aircraft
after the entry for San Monica. San Monica did have an aircraft sales
organizations so it the aircraft may have been dropped from the USAF
inventory after arriving there
6408 MAINTENANCE AND SUPPLY GROUP (SUB DEPOT) ACTIVATED ON 16 JUL 52 AND
BASED AT KISARAZU AIR BASE, HONSHU, JAPAN. MISSION OF 6408 MAINTENANCE AND
SUPPLY GROUP (SUB DEPOT) TO ERECT/DISASSEMBLE AND PREPARE FOR SHIPMENT OF
AIR FORCE AND ARMY AIRCRAFT TO ZONE OF INTERIOR.
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