U.S. Covers

20th Century Military

 

Pre WWII

 

1/19/01, stampless Boer War cover, "No Stamps Available" to Salisbury via London. $90

 

1919, AEF Siberia, HDSTP “CENSOR on front of cover. Small defects. $150

 

1919: “Demobilized”; 1928: C11, E15, “San Diego Naval Training Station” View

 

 

POW – Internment

 

Boer War, Civilian Internee, POW, interesting CENSOR markings. View

 

Boer War, 1901, Orange River Colony, interesting censor tape. $195

 

POW camp PPC, Harderwijk, Netherlands 1916. NYC hdstp: "No charge POW mail" $100

 

WWI Internment Station, Hot Springs, NC. US DOJ CENSOR, 1918. Content. Rare.  $450

 

To (British) POW in Italy, 1940, #892, double CENSOR. $125

 

1942 Yugo POW in Germany to Belgrade; Perry NY to US POW in Germany C/O  Swiss Red Cross. View

 

Italian POWs, North Africa, 3 different (others available). View

 

1943, Santa Fe, NM, Japanese Internee. $125

 

1943, “Detained Alien enemy”, Honolulu, 1943. $125

 

1943, “Free POW”, Bismark, ND. $135

 

POWs, CO, 1944; Trinidad & Camp Hale, Pando. View

 

POWs, three: Ogden UT; Ft. George Meade, MD; Camp Sibert, AL. View

 

POWs, TX: Brady, & Camp Swift. View

 

New York, To US POW, Germany, Jan '45; Ellis Island, NY, 1945, “Detained Civilian” View

 

POW, Ft. Devens, MA, 1945. $35

 

1946, Santa Fe detention camp, guard. "Free" &  POW Camp, McClean, TX, 1943. View

 

Camp Solidarity, Towaco, NJ, 1947. $85

 

 

 

 

 

WWII

 

1940, London to DC, addressed to Gen. “Hap” Arnold, mixed franking, attractive. $75

 

Unusual WWII related: 1943 Chicago to Guernsey RTS (German Occ); 1940 “War Dept” cc. CCC camp, Glendora, CA. View

 

“Not in Post Guard House” Ft Jay, Y 1944. $65

 

APO 260, Aug 1945 (Germany), 10 Armored, “Trains”cc on window env. $25

 

APO 406, Azores, 1949, #804 strip. $15

 

APO 851, Ft. Brooke, PR, 1941. $15

 

Unusual WWII items: 1944, C26x3 to Kodak House RAAF forwarding agent in London & 1943 Cleveland to Czech soldier, forwarded to Windsor castle. View

 

Unusual WWII items: Marines on Palmyra Is. April, 1942, #902 Lincoln + #901, Unusual CENSOR; APO 512 (Algeria), 1944, Maj. Gen. Noce cc. View

 

Unusual WWII items: APO 537 (France) U527, 4ct Bicentennial with penalty overprint + C25 on July ’45 cover and #805, 2nd class usage, three different “search” hdstps. After addressee was not found at Camp Howze, TX. View

 

1944 FDR inaugural invitation, Haiti, double censor. $85

 

Penalty add-ons: #433/472 on 1917 Boston cover and #899,#905, 2x #825 on 1945 San Francisco cover. Defects. View

 

 

Note: A website containing an original newspaper account of the Bikini test and veterans information may be found at: http://www.aracnet.com/~pdxavets/ships.htm

 

Bikini Atom Test  - USS Cumberland; Gasconade; Ft. Mckinley; Appalachian View

 

Bikini Atom Test - USS Rockwall; Mount McKinley; Haven; Fallon.  View

 

Bikini Atom Test - USS Gillium; Appalachan Br.; “Ex Jap BB Nagato”   View

 

Bikini Atom Test – Carrier, Battleships: USS Saratoga; New York; Arkansas   View

 

Bikini Atom Test – German Battleship: Prinz Eugen View

 

 

 

 

 

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