Dec 7, 1941
Two covers, postmarked
“U.S.S. Breese/Dec 7/1941/AM”, prepared by mail clerk on ship. Unique
postal memorabilia with historic notations.
View 1st cover View 2nd cover
See analysis from USCS article by Al Kugel &
note from Dave Kent
Unusual Censor Actions
“Released…District
Postal Censor”; From Brazil: “U.S. censor is not responsible for
the mutilation…” View
Boxed:
“Released by censor”, #634,804; black bordered: “US
Examiner..” View
#805
strip, RTS Form OC-12, to Prague
View
Air
to GB: “RTS by Censor”; broad red striped h/s View
Surface
RTS: ornate French Aux; to POW in Germany, address incorrect, content
View
RTS
Airs: #815(3), Jamaica, NY
to Marseilles just after occupation, 4/10/42;
#830, DC to Greece,
German censor, 5/12/42 View
Boxed:
“Censored/ Ellis Island..” View
Form
862, “…No Return
Address”, to Holland
View
To
Holland, Columbia
Airmail, “Accommodation Address” View
To
Holland, Cuba Airmail, “Accommodation
Address” View
C24,
NYC To England, “accommodation address” RTS by Germans View
To
Italy: #653, 812, 5X 3rd
class wrapper, Cleveland to Fume; Form 862, “…No Return Address”,
air, Endicott, NY View
To
Iraq, “Not
Examined” h/s; Air, C29,31 to Iran, RTS View
To
Latvia, #805, RTS, Form
OC-12, Oroville, CA View
C24,
MA to Norway, Form 862, “…No Return Address”;
HI to MA, Form NC #2, “…cover was open when it
reached…” View
1940
registry to Amsterdam,
“Released”, returned 1946 View
UY6m,#860
to Serbia, “Red Cross
Service”, RTS; C30, DC to Sweden,
“Released’ h/s View
C24,
MN to Geneva,
1942, wavy pmk (released), delivered 1946 View
C20,27,
Air, NJ to Rumania,
“Through USSR”, RTS form 2911 View
C29,
HI provisional censor: “Released by I.C.B.”, to MN, 12/15/41 View
Service Suspended-To
Asia, Africa
By
Surface:
#803,
809, Little Rock to North
Borneo, Christmas Card, 12/1/41 View
#805,
NYC to Rangoon, Burma on wrapper View
#810,
CT to Foochow, China,
11/6/41; #807 on 3ct entire, Portland, OR to Shanghai,
WX105, 11/26/41 View
#900,901,
NJ to Shantung, China,
11/28/41; #899(pair),901, Fall River Mills, CA to Swatow, China
View
#804,
900,Saint Paul to Hankow, China
View
#810,
Minneapolis to Nanking, China
View
#804a(pair),807a,
Billings, MT
to Java, 12/5/42 View
#805(5),
Brooklyn, NY to
Japan, 2/12/42; #810, NYC to Java, 1/3/42; #877, Hempstead,
NY to Malaya,
12/6/41(!) View
#803,812,
Cleveland, OH
to Manchuria on wrapper, 11/12/41; #804(5), Seattle
to Philippines,
12/31/41 View
#899,901,811,815,
fancy killers, Indianapolis, registered to Sarawak,
12/16/41; #810, NYC to Thailand,
12/4/41 View
#825,
registry, Centralia, IL
to Singapore,
registry, 10/27/41 View
By Air
(Service Suspended, to Asia, Africa):
#825(2),831,
El Paso, TX,
registered to Chungking, 1/8/42; #825(pair),830, NYC to Hong
Kong, 12/16/41 View
#815,830(2),
NYC to Hong Kong, 12/8/41(!) View
#825,831,
NYC to Java, 1/3/42; C21,22, NJ to Java, 12/29/41 View
#823(pair),846(pair),900,
Providence, RI to Rizal, PI, 12/9/41!! View
Service Suspended-To Europe
By
Surface:
#805,
Wrapper to Greece
View
#807,
870, Hendersonville, NC
to Paris View
#810,
DC to Tassin, France, 6/25/42 View
#810,
DC to Paris,
9/13/41 View
#810,
Annapolis to Holland, 12/18/41 View
#805,
NYC to Bulgaria, on wrapper;
#892, NYC to Belgium,
12/1/41 View
#900,902,
NYC to Crete, 3/2/41; NYC to Denmark,
w/ WX105, 7/28/42 View
NYC
to France:
#806,857, 9/5/40; #900,901, German censor, 4/10/41 View
Two
to France: #882 censored,
11/16/40 & #872 uncensored, 11/16/40; #810, Mt Vernon, NY to France,
5/1/40 View
#807,885,
Los Angeles to France,
“Via Lisbon”, 9/16/40; #810, Sacramento to Germany, 3/6/42 View
#867,
NYC to “Unoccupied France”,
5/4/42; 807,899(2), NYC to Paris,
9/16/42 View
#805
to Bulgaria, on wrapper; #807a,900, Los Angeles to Norway, 11/30/41 View
To
Switz: #900,905, Burbank, 11/16/42; #810, NYC,
w/ content, 6/28/44, plus #806,901,
NYC to Yugoslavia
View
By Air
(Service Suspended, to Europe):
To
Belgium: #829,898,900, St. Johns MI,
12/13/41; C24, DE, 12/8/41 View
#830
to Czech, De Witt, IA,
5/5/45; C9,C27 to Bulgaria,
1/12/42 View
C24(2),
NYC to Paris View
To
France: #906(5),841-2, Topeka, 9/1/42; C24, Portland,
OR, 7/25/40 View
#699,808
on UX27, Glen Ellyn, IL
to France, 10/1/40; C24, Grand Rapids to Germany, 12/5/41 View
C24
to Greece, Richmond,
VA, 2/8/41, no censor: C30 to Rome,
Thompson, CT,
12/12/41 View
#815,C29
to Italy, Benicia, CA,
1/11/42; #830(pair) to Switz., NYC, 11/16/42 View
#830,
DC to Berlin,
12/18/41 View
C24,
Fort Wayne to Greece,
4/1/41 View
#810(2),831,
San Francisco to Greece, 4/12/41 View
Mixed
issues on 3ct entire, Keyes, CA
to Holland,
11/25/41 View
#820(pair),
Baltimore to Italy, 12/5/41 View
#820(3),
Brooklyn, NY to
Slovakia,
12/12/42 View
#812,826,900,
NYC to Switz., 12/11/42 View
NYC
To Switz.: C30, 2/3/43; #905,C30, 3/1/43 View
Non-Europe Destinations,
FAM22-Via Atlantic
#810,815,905(6),
NYC to Algiers, 5/4/44; C24(pair),C27, Middleburg, NY to Australia,
12/30/41 View
To
Australia:
#810(pair),C24(2), Jamaica,
NY, 5/9/42; #825,831, NYC, 10/24/44 View
To
Cameroun:
#C29(3), Loyal, WI, 12/24/42; #815,831(pair), NYC, 12/4/44 View
To
Cameroun: #825(3), Washburn, WI, 5/14/42;
C9(3), Neenah, WI, 6/2/43 View
C7,29-30+,
Jackson, MI to Ceylon, 7/24/43; C30(2), Montclair,
NJ to Congo,
6/8/42 View
To
Ethiopia: #831,C29, Los Angeles, 12/11/43; C7,24(pair), High point, NC, Via Khartoum, 3/27/43 View
#831,C29, NYC to East India, 4/13/43;
C9,23, Badenton Beach, FL
to Nigeria,
6/13/42 View
#810,820(3),
NYC to Nigeria, 5/21/43;
C22,29, Phila to Jerusalem,
9/8/43 View
To
South Africa: #810(2),C22, San Francisco, 11/7/42; Prexies, #901(pair), Boston, 6/10/42 View
C9,30(3),
Saint Davids, PA to So. Africa, 3/17/42; Prexies,#905(4), Mamaroneck, NY to Turkey,
7/6/42 View
#815,C30(2),
Hinsdale, IL to Turkey,
3/22/43; #825(strip3),C7, Bronxville, NY to USSR,
“ping-pong”, 4/22/42 View
#815(3),C29(2),
Salem OR to USSR, 5/7/42 View
Airmail to the Middle East
To
Beirut: #807(2),815(3), Poughkeepsie, 1/8/41 View; #825,C31,
NYC, 1/12/42 View
To
Egypt: #813(2),825, Boston, 9/11/39; C21,22, Milwaukee,
9/11/41 View;
#831,C9, Wilkes-Barre,
6/1/42 View
#815,C24(2),
Kent, CT to Cairo, 10/8/41 View; C24, Bronxville, NY to Cairo, two similar 1942
covers, “insufficient postage” View
To Iraq: #810,C22,24,
Chicago/Stock Yards, 1/13/41 View; C9,22,
NYC, 11/26/40 View
Airmail to
Palestine:
C27,30(2),
Chicago, 3/10/42 View; C8(pair),
Tucson, AZ,
2/10/41 View;
#815,820(strip4), NYC, 7/24/41 View
#815,830(2),C28,
NYC, 4/29/43, registered View;
#900(2),C23,C24(2), Los Angeles,
5/28/41 View
#831,C9,
NYC to Tel-Aviv, 8/17/40, via Hong Kong, View
#825,831,
East Liverpool, OH
to Tel Aviv; #810(2),830(2),917(2),918, NYC to Jerusalem, 11/22/43, registered View
#825,831,C29,
Miami to Tel
Aviv, 8/12/42, registered View
C29,31,
Spokane, WA to
Herslia; #811, C8(2), NYC to Haifa,
8/18/39 View
#700,C23,
Indianapolis to Jerusalem,
5/23/39; C9,22, Buffalo
to Ramath Gan, 5/19/41 View
#810,C24
on UX27, Paramus, NJ-Tel Aviv, 8/28/39; #807(2), C24, NYCto Jerusalem, 7/3/40 View;
C24, Kirkland, WA, 1/4/41 View
C21,22,
NYC to Tel Aviv, 11/20/40; #815(2),C20(2), Brooklyn,
NY to Tel Aviv, 1/6/41 View
C9,22,
NYC to Tel Aviv, 4/30/41 two similar covers: View
Airmail to
Turkey (all Istanbul):
#808,C21,24,
Bloomington, IN, 8/12/40 View; C24, Prouts Neck, ME,
10/13/41; C27,30(2), Thetford,
VT, 10/18/44 View
#815(2),831,
Boston 1/31/42; C27(strip3), NYC, 11/18/41 View; #810,31,
Boston,
5/23/41, View
C23,24,
Deerfield, MA,
10/29/40 View;
#700(2), Kent, OH, 11/20/40 View
C27(strip3),WX105(pair),
NYC, 12/1/41; #825,875,900,C23, NYC, 11/6/41 View
Via
Singapore: C23(blk+sgl), NYC, 10/6/41; #806,C29 on 6ct air entire, Mamaroneck,
NY, 9/8/41 View
C30,
NYC, 12/3/41 View
Airmail to Europe (not England,
France or Germany)
#647,8,C11,
Honolulu to Austria,
10/24/28; #817(2) on 6ct air entire, NYC to Belgium, 4/9/40 View
To
Czech: #808,25,C23, Cleveland, OH,
9/11/40; C24 on UX27, Marysville,
CA, 11/9/41 View
To Prague: #892(2),C23(2)+, Portland, OR,
11/4/40; C30, Chicago, 10/20/41 View
C24,
Akron, OH to Prague, 7/16/40 View
#830,
NYC to Denmark,
10/16/40 View
To
Denmark: #700, Ridgefield, CT, 8/1/39;
#817(2) on 6ct air entire, Chicago,
7/10/40 View
To
Denmark: C24, Pittsburgh, 2/10/41; #825,C7, Hoboken, NJ,
5/17/40 View
To
Denmark: #817(2) on 6ct air
entire, two covers: NYC 6/21/40 & Metuchen,
NJ 7/12/40 View
DC
to Sweden, forwarded to Finland
on multi-franked cover, 1/6/44 View
To
Greece: #636,799, composite
rate, Wellsville, NY, 10/25/37; C24, NYC, 5/29/40 View
C24,
Windsor, CT to Athens, 11/18/40; C7(2),23,24, Blue Point, NY to Holland, 6/14/41 View
C24,
Staten Island to Greece,
10/30/40; #810,825(2), St. Louis to Hungary,
7/6/40 View
#804,807(8),900,
NYC to Holland,
12/22/40 View
#878,825(both
perfins), Phila. to Holland, 6/12/40; C24, Cleveland, OH to Hungary,
2/15/40 View
To Italy: #815,C21, NYC,
6/25/40; #632,36,98 on 6ct air entire, registry, Riverside, CA, 8/14/34 purple
“Luftpost” h/s View
To
Italy: #817,885,6,7(2),898, Larchmont, NY, 9/19/40;
#796,C19, Los Angeles,
scarce rate, 9/2/38 View
C24,
Tulsa, OK to Latvia, via Hong Kong,
8/12/41 View
#804(2),810,C23(3),
Barnegat City, NJ to Norway,
“ping-pong”, 8/28/39; #830, Detroit
to Poland,
WX130, 12/23/40 View
To
Lisbon: C24,
NYC, 1/2/41; #825(2),900 on 3ct entire, NYC, 1/22/41, “Maidenform
Brassiere” c/c View
#804,810,C23(4),
NYC to Lisbon, 7/1/40; #894(3),C8,C23, NYC to Madrid, 4/17/40 View
To
Spain: C25,6,prexies, NYC to
Spain, registry, 10/30/44;
C24, Elgin, IL, 9/18/40 View
To
Spain: C24, Elgin,
IL, 9/20/40; C30, Lancaster, PA,
5/22/44 View
To
Sweden: #810,829, Oakland, CA,
12/4/42; C24, Westerly, RI, 7/23/41 View
To
Sweden: C24, Denver, Mourning Cover, 5/25/42; #794,6,C29, Los Angeles, 7/27/42 View
To
Sweden: #813,883,C23(pair),
Davidson, NC, 9/20/40; C24(pair), Albany,
NY, 12/13/41 View
To
Sweden: #815,825, NYC,
7/23/41 View;
#815,30,31, triple rate, Millington,
NJ, 10/13/43 View
To
Switzerland: C7,9, Cornwall, NY,
7/18/40; #744,C20, NYC, 12/13/40 View
To
Switzerland:
C24, NYC, 12/22/41;
#813-4,899,C23(2), NYC, 12/13/41 View
Prexies
to Switzerland:
#815,825(3), NYC, 9/14/42; #811(blk5), NYC, 10/5/42, View
To
Switzerland: #815,825(4), E. Orange, NJ, 6/8/40;
C24, Dekalb, IL, 12/6/40 View
C24,
Oswego, NY to Zurich, 3/24/40 View
To Yugoslavia: C24, Los Angeles,
1/29/41; C24(2), Dearborn, MI, 12/21/40 View
To
USSR: #815, 825(2), Seymour, CT, 7/18/42,
“ping-pong”, View; C28(4), Chicago, 5/20/42,
underpaid, went by surface, View
Airmail to England, France
or Germany
#805(2),6(2),7(3),862,872,879,
Cicero, IL to
“Vienna Germany”, 5/9/41 View
#820(pair),
DC to England,
5/7/40 View
#872(6),
Passaic, NJ to Germany, 3/13/41; #862,67,68,73, NYC to Germany,
1/27/41 View
“Phony
War” mail: #806,C23, L.A. composite rate
to Germany, 4/15/40;
#806,810(5),856, NYC to England,
9/6/39 View
“Phony
War” mail to Germany:
#640,806,815,794(2), Chicago, 12/11/39;
#810,815(2),C11, Flushing, NY, 12/18/39 View
C25(blk+sgl),
Fort Sheridan, IL(boxed
killer) to England, 7/15/41;
C26(3), #813 added per deficiency h/s, NYC to England w/ RAF forwarding label, 10/12/44 View
To
England: C25,27,28, Franklin, MA, 9/11/41;
#806,C23, composite rate, Santa
Barbara, 3/18/40 View
To
England: #825,C23(blk+sgl), Framingham, MA, registry,
4/18/44; #699,810, Seattle,
12/10/40 View
To
England: #685,825C23, Annapolis, MD, 6/5/40;
#807a(4),905(6), Boston
View
To
England: #830, NYC, 9/15/41;
C24, Scarsdale, NY, 11/8/40 View
To
England: C24, Pittsburgh, PA,
12/16/40; C24, Chicago, 7/17/40 View
To
France: #815,20, NYC, 4/25/41, Vichy censor;
C24(2), DC(American Library in Paris
c/c), 3/29/40 View
To
France: #820,C24, NYC registry, 6/4/40; C24, Punta Gorda,
FL, 7/8/41, Vichy censor View
To
France:
C24, NYC, 5/2/42 View
To
Germany:
#632,698,807,C23,C24, Chicago, 6/2/39:#804,C7(2)C23 on 3ct entire, Dover, DE,
6/10/40 View
To
Germany: #815(3) on UX27,
Middleboro, MA, 9/4/40; C24 on UX27, Union
City, NJ, 11/13/40 View
To
Germany during period of no Allied censor: #808,C21 on 6ct air entire, Chicago, 7/1/40;
#810(2),825(2), NYC registry, 7/8/40 View
To
Germany: C8(pair), San Benito, TX, 10/26/40; #820(2); Effingham Falls, NH,
6/16/41 View
To
Germany: #815(3),C23, Swartswood, NJ to Vienna, 8/1/41;
#807(3),842(5),879(2),882, Chicago,
9/1/40 View
To
Germany:
#637,810,872(3), NYC, 7/10/40, very unusual franking View
To
Germany: C20,23, Newark, NJ, 11/15/41;
#700, Palatine, IL, 6/27/40 View
Airmail to China,
Hong Kong
To China:
#637,698,701,
Omaha to Hupeh,
10/27/36; View
#699,701
on 5ct entire, NYC to Meihsien, 3/26/36; C20(strip3, pl#), Berkeley, CA to Kwangtung, 3/23/37 View
C7,20(strip3),
Berkeley, CA to
Kwangtung, registered, 3/29/38; C20,22, Jersey City,
NJ to Shanghai,
4/2/37 View
C9,20,22,
Lincoln, NE
to Ningpo, Registered w/ r-receipt, 11/15/37 View
#634,C19
on 3ct entire, Hamilton, NY
to Shanghai,
6/2/38 View
#827,28(pair)
pay 70ct rate, New Haven, CT to Canton, 3/14/41; #815,25(3), Glendale to
Shanghai, 7/8/40 View
#874,807(3),
Detroit to Shanghai, 7/3/40; #642(2),696,698(2),
San Francisco
to Shanghai, 4/14/40 View
#694,696(3),817,
San Francisco to Shanghai, 12/2/40;
C9(2)24(3)27, double rate, NYC to Shanghai
View
C21,22,
De Moines to Canton, 2/7/40; C9,22(2), Los Angeles to Shanghai,
1/6/41 View
#898,910(3),C23(2),
NYC to Shanghai, 9/14/41; #808,C24(pair) on 6ct air entire, Saranac Lake, NY to
Chekiang, 4/21/41 View
#900,C28,22,
Wellington, KS
to Futsing, 7/22/43; C21,30(2), Delaware,
OH to Futsing, 3/9/43 View
#815,829,899,
unusual 36ct rate, NYC to Shanghai,
7/7/41 View
Air To Hong Kong:
#637,C20,
Hanover, PA,
8/2/37; #642(2),701, Wilmington,
DE, 7/23/38 View
#815,700(2),
Augusta, GA, ca
1939; #642(5),815(pair), neat mixed franking, Swarthmore, PA,
2/20/39 View
Air To Asia, Africa (no China/H-Kong):
To
Australia: C6,
632,634(2), 3 domestic zones + sea, NYC, 11/29/24; #634,C19, Coconut Grove, FL,
3/24/38 View
To
Australia: #825,C22, NYC,
1/22/40; #892,C21(3), San Francisco,
11/27/40 View
To
Australia:
C9,22, NYC, 7/14/41; #825,831, NYC, 8/23/40 View
#797(sheet),830,832,
San Francisco to Sydney, 2/10/42 View
Forwarded
from N.Z.: #812,C9(2),C22 on 3ct entire, San Francisco,
10/15/41, Auckland
transit View
Dramatic
Illustrated Registered cover to NSW, #815,883,C12,22(2), NYC, 8/26/40 View
#815,825(3),
Carson City, NV to NSW, 10/17/41 View
C7,24(2),
Cleveland, OH to Borneo, 4/15/41; #825,831, NYC to Cameroun,
6/26/42 View
C22,27,
Marshfield, WI
to Cameroun,
2/16/42 View
C30(2),
St Louis to Congo,
forwarded, searched, RTS, 6/3/44; C30(4), Ithaca,
NY to Cameroun,
3/16/42 View
C21(pair),
Guam to CT, 3/25/40; #685,830 on 6ct air entire, San Diego to Guam, 3/25/40 View
FAM14
first flight (San Francisco-Honolulu-Macao), 4/21/35; C22, Honolulu/Philippine Mil. Br, to LA, 11/17/38 View
C21:
HI to IL, 2/3/39; Palo Alto
to HI, “ping-pong”, 8/8/38 View
From
Honolulu to Philadelphia: C21(2), 6/24/40; C21,
3/6/41 View
From/To
Honolulu: #825, San
Francisco, 6/9/42; #901(4),C21, HI to Manila, 5/8/41; #823,C29, Registry,
9/7/43 View
To India: #810(2),C21,22, Youngstown, OH,
11/22/39; #825,C24, NYC, 11/24/39 View
To
India: C21,24, Ardmore, PA, 4/13/40;
#825,831, Mount Kisco, NY, 9/27/40 View
To
India: C23,24 + South Boston, MA,
1/19/41; C9,22, 4/9/41 View
To
India:
#815,825(4), NYC, 12/9/41 (!) View; C30(pair), Detroit, 11/20/44; #815,825, Wilmington, DE,
2/21/41 View
C22,29,
Ann Arbor, MI to Iran,
4/20/42, View
#698(7),
Chicago to Japan,
4/27/37 View
#815,825(3),
Van Buren, IN to Java, 3/18/41; #804,C19(4), Bamberg, SC to
Malaya View
To
Morocco: #807(3, 1 added to
meet deficiency),896,900,C7,C23, NYC, 3/7/41; #905,C30, New Rochelle, 8/4/43, View
To
Morocco: #806,7,C24(2) on
3ct entire, Boston,
8/5/40; #816,824,901, NYC, 3/29/41
