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January 2013 Volume 84, No.1 Whole No. 991

January’s feature article — Development of Services In Poland 1929-1939 Page 9 & Ask for our Free Price List of Worldwide Flight covers and stamps. The following is a small sampling – full list on Website!

United States Item #3005: 1929 (August 20) Around-the-World Flight, VF with Scott 611 Harrison in block of 4 and Scott 612 Harding imperf in block of 4. Receiving cancel on reverse. S.29A ...... $150.00 Item #4028: 1930 (June 2) C14 F-VF on VF airmail cover. Red Ger - man flight cachet and type II US violet flight cachet. Scott #557, 5¢ Teddy Roosevelt franking sealing flap on reverse. Friedrichshafen June 6 and Lakehurst green receiving cancel on reverse. Flown round-trip but without the violet circular stamp ...... $400.00 Austria Item #3364: 1913 wrapper printed by Austria post office picturing early biplane. Very rare and great exhibition piece! ...... $450.00 Brazil Item #4224: 1930 (May 24) S.59D. Rio de Janeiro to Lakehurst Zep - pelin flight. 5000r green. USA overprint. Postal card with Recife receiv - ing cancel on reverse. (125.00) ...... $90.00 Germany Item #4282: 1931 (July 24) Polar flight. C42 4m polar on cover to USA. Friedrichshafen and Malyguin cancels. S.119F . $550.00 Ireland Item #5006: 1932 (April 14) PPC of 3rd South America Flight, addressed to H. Stoltz in Brazil. “Mit Zeppelin” blue label, “Printed Paper.” (S.150) ...... $850.00 Liechtenstein Item #3693: 1957 (February 8) Mittelholzer Memorial Flight. Switzer - land to South Africa, 1927-1957. Only 20 flown. Very rare item! LBK 183 ...... $600.00 Mexico Item #4962: 1936 (May 18) Hindenburg flight, VF registered cover Henry Gitner Philatelists, Inc. PO Box 3077T, Middletown NY 10940 Email: [email protected] — http://www.hgitner.com

JANUARY 2013 PAGE 1 In This Issue of the Airpost Journal Letters to — ARTICLES — Development of Airmail Services in Poland 1929-1939 Part 3: Zeppelin Mail ...... 9 the Editor Jerzy W. Kupiec-Weglinski and Jacek Kosmala FAM-22: What was it All About? ...... 24 Article Not ‘Path of Discovery’ John Wilson The article titled “Pan American Airways 1942 Confidential Airmail for Tobacco in 1918 ...... 30 Timetables” in the December issue of APJ must represent a good deal of Joe Kirker time expended by the author in compiling the data, but I have to ask if it adds anything to the advancement of the study of wartime airmail oper - — NEWS — ations by Pan American Airways. Any written text on almost any subject AAMS Convenes at ARIPEX ...... 32 is best begun with an opening position, usually posing a previously News of the Shows ...... 28 unanswered question, and the reader should then be led by the author Obituary: Robert Outlaw ...... 33 along a well-defined path, using properly referenced source material and Obituary: Murray Heifetz ...... 34 careful analysis, to a stated conclusion or series of conclusions based on the path traveled. — COLUMNS — This article starts by stating that a series of printed timetables Letters to the Editor ...... 3 has been found at the University of Miami, a fact well known to all inter - President’s Message ...... 6 ested parties in this field, and concludes, after 12 pages of repeated tables by saying this: — DEPARTMENTS – “Long hidden wartime Pan American Airways 1942 flight timetables Airpost Journal Index, Volume 83, Calendar Year 2012 ...... 38 have been found in the Richter Library.” Classified Ads ...... 44 Yes, we all know that from the opening statement. Has the reader Membership Report ...... 43 learned anything? Not a lot in my opinion. Has it enabled the collector who has a cover in his hand to determine how, when, why and where that cover traveled on its journey through the mail system? No, because time and time again we have found that the printed timetables were no Editor and Advertising more than a statement of intent and not a record of what actually hap - Vickie Canfield Peters 11911 E Connor Road Valleyford WA 99036 pened. Since we now have access to the Pan American Trip Summaries vcanfi[email protected] which constitute the actual events, the study of timetables becomes Staff Writers Columnists superfluous, and certainly does not warrant the use of 12 pages of APJ Joe Kirker Alan Warren: Airmail Elsewhere in Print Bob Wilcsek Bob Wilcsek: Zeppelin Letters for the purpose. Copyright 2013 The American Air Mail Society . The Airpost Journal (ISSN 0739-0939) is pub - Full marks to the author for enthusiasm but I personally cannot lished monthly by the American Air Mail Society, Box 110, Mineola, NY 11501. Periodical see what has been achieved by this text. The reader has not been taken postage paid at Spokane WA 99201 and additional post offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to American Air Mail Society, P.O. Box 5367, Virginia Beach VA 23471-0367. Subscription Rate down a path of discovery, rather has been led into a forest of repetitive $28 per year; $3 per copy. patterns and left without a guide or any exit conclusion that would cause Opinions expressed in features and columns in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the society. We welcome Letters to the Editor. Write Yours Today! PAGE 2 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 3 him or her to say “From reading that, I learned something new that will Bathurst airport was designated “BTH” and Hastings Field in Sierra help me in my collecting and broadened my understanding.” Leone was “HST.” The HST designation can be found in the flight sum - John Wilson maries but not BTH. Consultation with John Wilson clarified that Berry was not correct and that HST was Bathurst. Correcting this error of mine shows that seven counter-clockwise flights stopped at HST Bathurst. Most of these flights picked up 150-350 pounds of mail at Bathurst. It cannot be assumed that all the mail weight picked up from Bathurst was South American mail that was previously dropped off at Bathurst for censorship, but Gambia was a small British colony that would not expect to be sending that much mail to Europe. During the first seven months of 1942 the PAA clippers picked up 1,449 pounds of mail from Natal and Belem, Brazil and 1,291 pounds of mail from Bathurst. After July 1942 the PAA flying boat rarely landed at HST through the rest of the war. Through the rest of the war, mail was picked up at Natal on one side of the Atlantic and Fisherman’s Lake on the other by commercial PAA aircraft, a few hundred pounds at a time. This is very small com - pared to the volume of mail carried by the Natal to Lagos and Fisher - man’s Lake shuttle service that is described in the report by Coloord, Postscript to ‘Deaths of Army Emergency Flight Pilots’ which is discussed in a future article. Following the publication of my article referenced above, I came At the same time there have been several articles in which across this cover. It’s a fitting ending to the story. authors discuss the directional cachet “Via Africa Lisboa Londres” The cover was prepared by the Stuart Walcott Post American appearing on some mail from South America that was expected to travel Legion Department of Washington, D.C. The cachet reads, “In Memori - on a counter-clockwise PAA trip to Europe to avoid British and Ameri - um U.S. Army Pilots Who Died Flying the Mail Memorial Day 1934.” It can censorship. is signed by the Post Commander and the Aviation Officer. South American postal customers who placed the “Via Africa Memorial Day 1934 was just two days before the official end of Lisboa Londres” cachet on their covers did indeed have that service the Army Air Mail Contract. available for a brief period in 1942. This service apparently did not, how - Bob Dille ever, necessarily bypass the British censor system. David Crotty HST Equals Bathurst Please support the While preparing the article “Pan American Airways 1942 Timetables – Revisited” for the December 2012 issue of the APJ and another paper to be published later concerning the finding of PAA Trip Airpost Journal advertisers. Summaries for 1939-1944, I found some references puzzling. John Wilson made it clear, APJ 80(11) 450 (2009), that some PAA flights stopped at They’re supporting the Bathurst in 1942, where some South American mail was censored on its way to Europe. American Air Mail Society! Berry’s “The Boeing B314” Appendix 16 led me to believe the PAGE 4 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 5 The 2013 AAMS Pillage Trophy Team President’s The six members of the AAMS team for the Pillage Trophy com - petition at WESTPEX 2013 are: Derrick Pillage (Captain), Jim Graue, Jim Graue Message Allen Klein, Don David Price, Ken Sanford and Dickson Preston. * * * AAMS Auction Listings . . . and Other Things Publications Sales AAMS Auction Lists Greg Schmidt recommended that the inventory reduction sale of Steve Reinhard has reported that a few members are leaving our AAMS publications be continued to effect further reduction of inventory ranks because we are no longer printing our AAMS auction listings in and storage expense. the Airpost Journal . We sincerely regret that any members would find The publications inventory reduction sale will be continued the inclusion of the auction listings in the journal as decisive of whether through April 15, 2013. At that time Greg will prepare a report on the or not they retain membership in AAMS. status of the inventory and his recommendations for presentation at the The Airpost Journal is highly regarded in the world of philatelic AAMS board meeting at ARIPEX. The board will set direction from that literature. It is seen by many as the premier aerophilatelic journal pub - point. lished. The decision to take the auction lists out was made because they * * * have no lasting value. The several pages they consumed were deemed Airpost Journal Advertising best devoted to substantive articles. The free classified advertising allowed to members is presently To give the AAMS auction listings the widest possible exposure, restricted to buy or trade; no sale ads are permitted. No one could come they now appear on the AAMS website and their presence there is up with a reason for this restriction. prominently advertised in the Airpost Journal. Recognizing that some Classified advertising in the Airpost Journal may be for any older members, and maybe even a few younger ones (?), have no com - buy, sell or trade offers. puter, or if they do, perhaps no internet service, we established a pro - * * * gram for providing hard-copy listings at cost on request. I am uncertain Donation Request how many members have exercised that option, but it is not a huge num - A request was received from the National Postal Museum for ber. donation of $10,000 toward the expense of building the William Gross Is the presence of the AAMS auction on the website, with an Exhibit Gallery. Gross donated $3 million but the plans call for an added option of getting the listings by mail, insufficient? We absolutely expense of $8 million. The Postal Museum is a 501(c)(3), as is AAMS and hate losing any members, but especially so because of action we have also most U.S. philatelic societies, but no reason is apparent why one C3 taken that we believe enhances the value of the Airpost Journal . Howev - should subsidize the costs of another C3, as such a donation would not er, if the reason a member is dropping out is because there is a nominal appear to necessarily be in keeping with the presumed or specific intent charge to get the auction list by mail, we will make arrangements to pro - of the original donation. Why was $3 million insufficient is another ques - vide them by mail at no charge. I will make the copies and mail them at tion, as it appears to be another uncontrolled government expense at a my own expense! time when most people feel the government spending is well beyond its * * * available resources. Canada Names Hargreaves FIP Aero Representative The request received no support. Congratulations to our friend Chris Hargreaves on being desig - The board authorized the president to decline the request for nated as representative of the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada to the funds received from the National Postal Museum. FIP Commission for Aerophilately and . He succeeds * * * Richard K. (“Dick”) Malott. Chris is the current president of the Canadi - Angers Memorial Award an Aerophilatelic Society and editor of The Canadian Aerophilatelist. This award has criteria not readily distinguishable from those for PAGE 6 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 7 the Aerophilatelic Hall of Fame. Development of Airmail Services AAMS will cease awarding the Angers Memorial Award. in Poland 1929 – 1939 Future AAMS Conventions 2013 ARIPEX Mesa, Arizona April 19-21 Part 3: Zeppelin Mail WESTPEX San Francisco April 26-28 (FISA) 2014 PIPEX Portland, Oregon May 23-25 Jerzy W. Kupiec–Weglinski and Jacek Kosmala 2014 AEROPHILATELY 2014 September 12-14 2015 NAPEX McLean, Virginia June 5-7 Graf Zeppelin Postal Service 2016 CHICAGOPEX November 19-21 During nine years of operation between 1928 and 1937, LZ-127 2017 Open Graf Zeppelin (registration D-ENNE), under the command of Dr. Hugo Eckener, carried a great deal of mail from more than 60 countries. It was The 2014 PIPEX convention is almost certain to suffer with the fastest way to send letters overseas at the time. Mail was accepted Aerophilately 2014 in Bellefonte on the horizon. However, we have com - from each country where the airship landed, as well as from the partici - mitted to it and need the meeting at that time to assure that everything is pating “treaty states.” finalized and in place for the September event. Years ago, Dieter Leder, a Zeppelin expert, asked Hermann In 2016, the international in New York is clouding many shows Sieger, the “godfather” of all Zeppelin catalogues, why he referred to but CHICAGOPEX six months later should be viable. non-German dispatches as “treaty states?” Had he seen “treaty” docu - For 2016, CHICAGOPEX on November 19-21 has been chosen ments? The reply was negative. Perhaps, they agreed, it might be more for the annual AAMS convention. appropriate to call non-German Zeppelin dispatches simply “transmit - * * * ted” or “accepted” mail. Upgrade AV Capability at World Airmail Research Center In March 1932, the Polish Ministry of Post and Telegraph The World Airmail Research Center at the APS Philatelic Center allowed the acceptance of correspondence to be flown by the Zeppelin in Bellefonte is frequently used as a classroom or for program presenta - airship to South America. The directive of March 5, 1932 (Polish Ministry tions. David Steidley moved that AAMS make a directed donation to Journal, Nr. 4/1932; pp. 108–9) outlines the way such dispatches were APS for audio-visual enhancement at WARC. expedited out of the country. The AAMS board approved the motion for up to $3,000. From the local post office, the mail was sent to either Warszawa * * * 2 or Poznan 3 post office. From there, it was transported by train to the Display Advertising in American Philatelist Berlin C2 post office, and then flown to Friedrichshafen by Anschlussflug AAMS Vice President David Steidley, whose tasks include mem - (connecting flight) where it was loaded into the airship. If mail missed bership recruitment and retention, moved that AAMS place a one-time, the train to Berlin, it had to be sent to Warszawa 19 Airport Post Office full-color half-page ad in American Philatelist to recruit new AAMS mem - from where it was flown to Berlin. In case of mail missing the Zeppelin bers. Ad copy will be prepared by Vickie Canfield Peters. transport altogether, Warszawa 19 Airport Post Office dispatched it to The AAMS board approved the motion for up to $1,000. Toulouse for a scheduled weekly South America–bound flight by Aero - * * * postale /Air France. Rocky Mountain Chapter of the American Air Mail Society A follow–up directive of July 29, 1932 (Nr. 16/1932, pp. 344–5) We’re happy to report the Rocky Mountain Chapter is alive and authorized additional Polish dispatches by Zeppelin from well. In fact, they just added a new member to the roster. For informa - Friedrichshafen (Bodensee) to Pernambuco (Recife), Brazil on August 29, tion about the chapter, send an email (subject “airmail”) to September 12, September 26 and October 10, 1932. The directive specified [email protected]. the mode of mail transport to Berlin C2 Bahnpostamt by TPO Warszawa– PAGE 8 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 9 Zbaszyn 3, train #1303, leaving Warszawa at 10:51 p.m. These provisions remained in effect until Zeppelin flights were suspended after the Hin - denburg disaster on May 6, 1937. With 136 Atlantic crossings, Graf Zeppelin provided the first reg - ular non-stop intercontinental air service in the world. In mid-1935, how - ever, Deutsche Lufthansa and Air France became the sole carriers of the letter mail to and from South America pursuant to a cooperative agree - ment for bi-weekly service from these carriers.

Graf Zeppelin South America Flights 1932–1933 Surprisingly little is known about Zeppelin mail dispatches from Poland. The subject has never been thoroughly researched and no seri - ous studies in either Polish or foreign literature have been found. This is the first attempt at pooling the knowledge of several experts in the field and providing previously unpublished data sought by collectors. It is clear the vast majority of the recorded Zeppelin mail origi - nating in Poland was flown in the 1932–1933 period. Out of the estimated 600 items of mail sent from Poland in that period and carried on the 18 Figure 1 South America flights, at least 247 (about 40 percent) could be recorded some 80 years later. We will now look at some outstanding Poland Zeppelin dis - The rarest are four covers from the first 1932 South America patches of 1932–1933. flight and six items from the fifth 1933 flight. Most common are those A rare item, carried on the first 1932 South America flight is from the ninth 1933 South American flight (29), the third 1932 South shown in Figure 1 . This letter, posted March 12, 1932 in Tlumacz, a small America flight and first 1933 flight (24 each), the fourth 1932 South town in the Stanislawow district of the pre-Second World War eastern America flight (21) and the eighth 1932 South America flight (20). Not Poland (now western Ukraine), is addressed to Bogota, Colombia. It surprisingly, 90 percent of all surviving mail is addressed to Brazil. From shows detailed routing directions in German “From Poland by airplane Poland, 17 items are known flown to Argentina, and five to other South to Friedrichshafen / Graf Zeppelin to Brazil / Airplane to Colombia.” American destinations: Uruguay (2), Colombia (2) and Paraguay (1). Mixed franking, Polish (56 gr) plus RM1.50 German airmail stamps for Of 30 existing Zeppelin dispatches on the ninth 1933 South Graf Zeppelin airmail to South America beyond Brazil. America flight / “Chicagofahrt” to the Century of Progress Exposition, The Graf Zeppelin left Friedrichshafen on March 20 at 11:35 p.m. 15 are addressed to Brazil, one to Argentina, seven to Chicago and three and arrived at Recife/Pernambuco on March 23 at 7:38 p.m., completing to Akron. A single cover was flown round trip to Seville and three were the flight of 4,872 miles (7,840 km) in 68 hours 5 minutes. The German flown round-trip to Friedrichshafen. Do more exist? Time will tell. postage was canceled on March 23, the date of the airship’s arrival in Consistent with other Zeppelin mailings, the majority of Polish Brazil. dispatches were: At that time, Colombia was not an accepted destination for Graf • prepared by prominent Polish philatelists of the era, e.g., Tadeusz Zeppelin airmail to South America as there was no air connection Gryzewski of Warszawa, Dr. Jozef Tislowitz of Krakow and Alfons between Brazil and Colombia. Airmail from Europe to Colombia had to Pilarzy of Paruszowice; be sent via New York. Brazil postage (600 reis) was canceled at Pernam - • addressed to Stoltz & Co. in Pernambuco, a recognized receiver of buco on March 25 and the cover was forwarded via Belem (Para) to New philatelic Zeppelin airmail. York by ship, arriving April 20, 1932. The letter was then forwarded to PAGE 10 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 11 Colombia via surface means, arriving at Barranquilla on May 3 (13 days The postage of 3.70 zl conforms to the Ministry of Post and Tele - in transit from New York). graph Directive Nr. 4, consistent with 10 gr for printed matter (up to 50 SCADTA airmail service from Barranquilla to Bogota was paid grams), 60 gr registration, and 3.00 zl Zeppelin airmail surcharge for 25– with 15 centavos in SCADTA airmail stamps, canceled May 3. The item 50 grams. However, it is doubtful this envelope weighed >25 grams arrived in Bogota on May 4, 1932. Total transit time was 54 days. This when submitted at the Silesian Post Office. Hence, the air surcharge of indisputable “gloriously” philatelic letter is a “gem” of Polish Zeppelin 3.00 zl, correct for a 5-gram letter rate to a Brazil destination, was most mail, one of only four recorded Poland acceptances on the first 1932 Graf likely applied in error, instead of the correct 1.50 zl printed matter rate Zeppelin flight to South America (the other three are addressed to (per 25 grams). Paraguay, Uruguay and Colombia). This attractive and pristine cover is one of 12 recorded from Poland flown on the sixth 1932 South America flight. Of interest here is a meter franking, which is unusual as most Zeppelin mail originating in Poland was franked with regular stamps.

Figure 2

Figure 2 shows a cover carried on the sixth 1932 South America flight. Prepared by Alfons Pilarzy, the prolific creator of the majority of Figure 3 Polish Zeppelin mail, it was sent registered on September 6 from his hometown of Laziska Gorne in the southern part of the country. Although not as “gloriously” philatelic as the previous ones, the The cover bears a Berlin – Friedrichshafen connection flight cover illustrated in Figure 3 is interesting for a number of reasons. First, cachet and special cachet for the Zeppelin flight. The airship departed on non–philatelic commercial Polish Zeppelin dispatches are seldom seen. September 12, flew 5,057 miles (8,138 km) in 70 hours and 14 minutes, Second, only 17 Argentina–bound items for 1932–1933 are recorded from landing at Recife on September 15. An arrival was applied at Poland and this is the only one flown on the eighth South America flight Curitiba–Parana on September 17. The inscription “Druk – Drucksache” of September 30, 1933. shows it to be printed matter. The cover was posted on September 27, 1933 as a registered item PAGE 12 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 13 On October 26, after circling Lake Michigan near the Chicago World Fair site, Graf Zeppelin landed briefly to unload mail at the nearby Curtiss–Wright Airport in Glenview. Commander Hugo Eckener was careful to fly in a clockwise pattern so “Windy City” residents would see the tri–color Weimar Germany flag on the starboard fin instead of the swastika painted on the port fin (required by the new Third Reich gov - ernment regulations). After a stopover at the Goodyear–Zeppelin Company's airdock in Akron, Ohio, the airship left the U.S. on October 28 and arrived Friedrichshafen (via Seville) on November 2. This was the fifth and final Graf Zeppelin visit to the United States. The directive of October 7, 1933, issued by the Poznan branch of the Polish Ministry of Post and Telegraph (Nr. 40/316, Pkm. 26) autho - rized Zeppelin dispatches for the Chicago Flight and fixed air surcharges (per 5 grams) for individual legs of the route, as follows: Rio de Janeiro 3,00 zl; Miami, Akron and Chicago 6,00 zl; Seville and Friedrichshafen 9.00 zl.

Figure 3, reverse in the industrial city of Łodz, some 75 miles (120 km) from the capital Warszawa. The cover has typed routing instructions, along with the Anschlussflug and Zeppelin cachets. After a flight of 5,063 miles (8,148 km) in 73 hours and 34 minutes, the airship landed at Recife, Brazil, on October 3. The airmail was taken by Condor Airlines to Buenos Aires where it arrived on October 6 at noon, a total transit time of 10 days. This business correspondence is correctly franked at the letter rate with several stamps totaling 5.30 zl on the reverse of the envelope: 0.60 zl international letter (per 20 grams) + 0.60 zl registration fee + 4.10 zl surcharge (per 5 grams) for Zeppelin airmail to South America beyond Brazil. The Graf Zeppelin airmail from the ninth 1933 South America flight, also known as “The Century of Progress Flight” or Chicago Flight (Chicagofahrt), is some of the most sought after in the world of Zeppelin . The airship departed Friedrichshafen on October 14 and arrived at Recife on October 17. After a brief visit to Rio de Janeiro, it left Brazil for the United States on October 21, making en route stops in Miami, Florida and Akron, Ohio. Figure 4

PAGE 14 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 15 Figure 4 illustrates the only recorded Polish dispatch on the Chicago Flight round trip to Seville. Addressed to Nijmegen, Holland, it was posted as registered mail on October 11, 1933 in Rybnik. It bears routing instructions, including a Rundfahrt bis Sevilla inscription and a yellow–brown private label that reads: “In any event, forward by dirigi - ble Graf Zeppelin – sending through “Warszawa 2 to Berlin C. 2 Post Office.” It also bears the German hexagonal Anschlussflug and triangular Chicago Flight red cachets. The cover was flown South America – North America – Seville, where LZ-127 landed on October 31 at 10:32 p.m. It was arrival post - marked at Seville on November 1, 1933, then forwarded via Barcelona – Marseille – Lyon – Paris to Holland, arriving at Nijmegen on November 3, 1933. The unusually high postage of 10.20 zl paid 60 gr international letter + 60 gr registration + Zeppelin airmail surcharge 9.00 zl. The reverse of the cover bears five 1.20 zl for a total of 6.00 zl.

Graf Zeppelin South American Flights 1934–1936 Figure 5 The authors have recorded 62 items from 1934–1936 Zeppelin flights to South America: 49 to Brazil, 12 to Argentina and one to posted as a registered item on August 28 in the southern city of Bielsko. Uruguay. The total recorded quantity of Polish Zeppelin mail to South Although marked as printed matter ( Drucksache ), the total postage of 4.50 America from the 1934–1936 period (62) is much less than in 1932–1933 zl (paid using 10 different colorful adhesives!) is consistent with the (247). There may be several reasons for that. existing (June 9–October 27, 1934) letter rate: 55 gr international letter Indeed, with South Atlantic crossings becoming more frequent (per 20 grams) + 45 gr registration + 3.50 zl airmail surcharge to Brazil and routine, the interest in Zeppelin items declined sharply. Although (per 5 grams). most of the surviving Polish mailings still show the familiar names (e.g., One notable feature of this cover is a Paris cancellation of August Alfons Pilarzy sender; Stoltz & Co. addressee), the mail volume 29 on the reverse. Interestingly, despite clearly spelled–out routing decreased, apparently with demand. Moreover, with the exception of the instructions “With Graf Zeppelin Airship from Friedrichshafen,” this third 1934 South America flight to Argentina and the special 12th 1934 item was mishandled. How did this happen? After arrival in Warszawa Christmas Flight, no special flight cachets were used, making the Zep - on August 29, it was loaded on an airplane bound for Paris (Flight #13, pelin airmail less “attractive” for collectors. Generic red circular “stag - 10:50 a.m. departure). At stopovers in Berlin (2:30 p.m.) and Cologne ing” cachets ( Bestätigungsstempel ) were used beginning in 1934. (6:45 p.m.), there were chances to offload the cover for onward service to Finally, with increased competition and technological advances, Friedrichshafen. However, Warszawa apparently placed it by mistake in the regular aircraft/catapult South Atlantic airmail services of German the closed bag with mail for Paris (9:00 p.m. arrival). Luckily, upon Lufthansa and Air France were reliable, less expensive and significantly receipt in Paris, an alert clerk spotted the mistake in time to place it into a faster than the airship. To sum up, Polish South America flight dispatch - bag headed for Germany. es of 1934–1936 are much rarer than originally thought and the search for Ultimately, this well-traveled item made the Zeppelin flight to and comprehensive study of these desirable yet undervalued Zeppelin South America, evidenced by the departure postmark of September 1 items should continue. (8:00 p.m.) and the red circular staging cachet from Friedrichshafen. The Figure 5 shows one of the three recorded Polish dispatches for lack of Brazil postmark is not surprising as the Sao Paulo postal authori - the Seventh 1934 South America flight. Addressed to Sao Paulo, it was ties were not particularly efficient in applying arrival markings.

PAGE 16 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 17 Hindenburg Postal Service 1936–1937 Poland (1936-1937), 70 percent of which (32) was flown on the first LZ-129 Hindenburg (registration D-EKKA) was the largest com - North America flight on May 6, 1936. The vast majority (31 of 48 items) mercial passenger–carrying rigid airship ever built, named after Paul are addressed to New York. No mail to non–U.S. destinations has been von Hindenburg (1847– 1934), president of Germany from 1925 to 1934. recorded. During the 1936 season, Hindenburg made 17 round-trip Atlantic cross - The oversized and overweight (11 grams) cover depicted in Fig - ings (10 to the United States and 7 to Brazil) flying 191,583 miles, carry - ure 6 was carried on the first Hindenburg North America flight of 1936. It ing 2,798 passengers and transporting 160 tons of freight and mail. In was posted as registered on May 1, 1936, in Zwierzyniec, a town in the July 1936, the airship completed a record Atlantic double crossing in 5 Lublin district in southeastern Poland. days, 19 hours and 51 minutes. Addressed to Haddonfield, New Jersey, it does not look “philat - On April 25, 1936, Directive Nr. 9 issued by the Polish Ministry elic” and most likely contained commercial correspondence. It is proper - of Post and Telegraph authorized airmail transport by the Hindenburg ly franked: 55 gr international letter (per 20 grams) + 45 gr registration + from Poland to North America. In accordance with the directive, the mail 3 x 1.90 zl per 5 grams Zeppelin airmail surcharge to New York. The from Poland was to be expedited from either “Warszawa 2” or “Poznan cover bears a red circular Deutsche Luftpost / Europa – Nord America 3” Post Office to “Bahnpostamt 19 Frankfurt (Main)” by TPO Warszawa staging cachet with “c” Frankfurt/Main postal numerator. – Zbaszyn 3 train (#1303), leaving Warszawa at 10:13 p.m. and Poznan at The Hindenburg left Löwenthal on May 6 (8:30 p.m.) and flew 2:58 a.m., arriving in Berlin the next day at 7:43 a.m. If the train was 4,381 miles (7,050 km) to Lakehurst, New Jersey, arriving May 9 at 6:10 missed, the mail, in a closed mail bag to “Bahnpostamt 19 Frankfurt a.m. On the reverse, is a New York transit postmark of May 9 and a Had - (Main),” was to be dispatched by air from “Warszawa 19” Airport or donfield receiving postmark of May 11. In all regards, these markings are “Poznan 3” Post Office to Berlin (leaving Warszawa at 8:10 a.m. or Poz - routine. nan at 9:45 a.m.). The mail was to reach Frankfurt (Main) not later than at On May 6, 1937, LZ-129 was destroyed while landing at Lake - 6 p.m. on the day of the airship departure. hurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Of the 97 people on board (36 The authors have identified 48 Hindenburg dispatches from passengers, 61 crew), there were 35 fatalities as well as one death on the ground. Only 372 pieces out of 17,609 postal items on board the Hinden - burg were recovered, most of which were severely damaged. None of it originated in Poland. The “Hindenburg disaster,” as the accident has been referred to, shattered public confidence in the rigid airships and marked the end of the Zeppelin era. Figure 7 shows a perhaps unique Poland-related aerophilatelic

Figure 6 Figure 7

PAGE 18 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 19 item related to the Hindenburg disaster. Addressed to Warszawa, it was on June 17, 1932 to Friedrichshafen with the correct international surface posted in New York on Thursday, May 6, 1937 at 2 p.m., less than six postage rate of 30 gr. The addressee added the 1 Franc Liechtenstein hours before the crash. It was intended for the airship’s return flight to stamp (correct zeppelin postcard rate) and sent the card under separate Europe. The correct all-inclusive Zeppelin and international letter rate of cover or by personal delivery to Liechtenstein. 40¢ per ½ ounce was applied. On June 28, 1932, Graf Zeppelin departed Friedrichshafen at 8:26 After the crash, all airmail intended for the return flight a.m. All the mail loaded was dropped at Zürich, Switzerland. All the addressed to central/northern Europe received complimentary air ser - mail prepared at Liechtenstein was postmarked at Vaduz, Liechtenstein. vice (VIA AIRMAIL cachet). On May 7, 1937, the mail was transported On the return flight to Germany, the airship picked up all Liechtenstein by sea from New York to London by American Farmer of the U.S. Lines. mail (a total of 3,664 articles) at Schaan, the airfield near Vaduz. The From there it was flown to Warszawa where it was arrival postmarked offloaded items, after receiving the black zeppelin arrival postmark, were on May 18. ultimately transported by surface to the addressees. Other “unauthorized” Zeppelin items from Poland are recorded: Unauthorized Polish Zeppelin Mail 1930–1938 first 1930 South America flight, Europe–Pan-American Flight 1930, Ost - In addition to South and North America flight dispatches see Flight 1931, Vaduz–Lausanne Flight 1931, Silesia Flight 1931, Eng - approved by the Polish Ministry of Post and Telegraph starting in March land Flight 1932, Olympic Flight 1936, Deutschland Flight and Sudeten - 1932, there were “unauthorized” mailings prior to that date, as well as land Flight 1938. The most famous is a dispatch from the Silesian city of from some European flights by LZ-127, LZ-129 and LZ-130 airships. Such Rybnik (prepared by Pilarzy) and carried on the 1936 Hindenburg items, usually dispatched first to Germany, are known in just a few or Olympia Flight, currently in The Olympic Museum of Lausanne, single copies, as exemplified by a Switzerland Flight of 1932 . Switzerland. The postcard shown as Figure 8 was expedited from Warszawa Bibliography 1. Dziennik Urzedowy Ministerstwa Poczt i Telegrafow (Documents of the Polish Ministry of Post and Telegraph) 1929-1939. 2. Fischer. Katalog Polskich Znakow Pocztowych. Tom II. 2010; pp. 394-419; 444-456. 3. Glass A, Mikulski M: Polish Airplane Services . Warszawa 1980. 4. Graue J: “Airmail from Germany to South America via Aero - postale / Air France 1928-1939.“ German Postal Specialist . 2006; 57; pp. 359-375. 5. Kapkowski J: “Poczta lotnicza nad Południowym Atlantykiem w latach 1930-1939.“ Historyczno-Badawczy Biuletyn Filatelistyczny (HBBF) 1990; pp. 14-25 6. LOT – Historia pisana na niebie / History written in the skies. Warszawa 2004; 150 pp. 7. Zbierski M: Polskie taryfy pocztowe 1918-1939: Zbior tabel i doku - mentow / Polnische Postgeburhen 1918-1939: Sammlung von Tabellen und Dokumenten / Polish postal rates 1918-1939: a compilation of tables and documents. 2004; Poznan: 561pp. Figure 8

PAGE 20 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 21 PAGE 22 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 23 FAM-22: What Was It All About? tion. As detailed in [1], Trippe was either drawn into or willingly partici - pated in the scheme to provide military assistance to the British war Final Part of a Short Series effort in North Africa by providing trans-Atlantic transport of men and materiel and trans-Africa transport from the west coast into the Middle John Wilson East. Introduction The shortest route from west Africa is across the Sahara from It has become clear that the story of the Pan American Airways Accra or Takoradi in the Gold Coast to Khartoum and on to Cairo, but wartime flights between Miami and Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo the presence of French Vichy forces in Senegal, both air and naval, posed was, initially, largely written in the absence of much factual evidence. a potential risk. Accordingly both the British and American military, in a This resulted in a whole generation of airmail collectors believing in splendid example of the left hand not knowing what the right hand was what was, essentially, a fantasy. The romantic idea of a PanAm Clipper doing, carried out independent aerial surveys of a trans-Africa route fur - making its lonely way across thousands of miles of ocean carrying the ther south on the African coast and too far from Senegal to allow the mail between continents can be dismissed in the light of recent detailed French to mount raids. This route was known as the “Congo Route.” It research using primary source documents located on both sides of the began in (guess where?) Leopoldville and followed the Congo River Atlantic and by the application of some common sense to the question across Africa to the east coast and the existing BOAC route from Durban posed in the title of this article. in South Africa up to Khartoum, Cairo and the pathway to the Middle East and India. Pan American Ambitions Trippe’s plans were interrupted by the US military as early as There can be little doubt of the single-minded ambition of Juan August 1941 as shown in a letter from the Manager, Pan American Trippe, the president of Pan American Airways, to make his airline the Atlantic Division, dated January 26, 1943, headed “Army Contract No. dominant player on the world stage. Having effectively achieved control 21207” [2]. In this letter we find a summary of the situation in 1941: of the Caribbean and South American markets and spanning the Pacific, his eyes turned to the crossing of the South Atlantic into southern Africa With respect to the airline operation contemplated by the contract, it and beyond towards India and the Far East to complete a round-the- was the intention that Pan American should apply to the Civil Aeronautics world airline service using Pan American’s new Boeing 314 Clipper fly - Board for a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity covering the route between ing boats. the United States and the Belgian Congo and that the operating costs should be The ideal pivot point for such a service would be Leopoldville, covered by the customary fixing of a CAB mail rate. The first step was taken but since this was already linked into southern Africa by the Belgian airline no CAB rate was ever established because it was subsequently decided to cover SABENA and would make an ideal jumping-off point for a trans-Africa the operating costs by means of a straight charter between the Army and Pan route to the Indian Ocean at the continent’s narrowest point. Much has American. been made of an agreement reached in 1941 between Pan American and FAM-22: A Mirage SABENA at Leopoldville but study of the actual contract shows that this This is the moment (August 1941) when the operations to simply appointed SABENA as ticket agents for Pan American in the Leopoldville were lost as a civilian airline route and taken over as a mili - Congo. The supporting correspondence reveals acrimonious exchanges tary project by the United States Army. Note that this is considerably between the two companies, eventually leading to termination of the before the attack on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into contract by Pan American on the basis that SABENA was giving prefer - the war. The fact that the CAB did not see it necessary to set a mail rate ential treatment to their own passengers. However, it did give Pan suggests that there was no need, since the Miami to Leopoldville service American their first foothold in Africa. was not intended to carry civilian mail. However, some civilian mail was War actually carried, as detailed in the conclusions to this article. This was the plan so far, but war in Europe changed the situa - The letter goes on thus: PAGE 24 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 25 Contract 21207 terminated in the latter part of 1942 . . . Status of the Timetables which confirms that the Army contract flights to Leopoldville ended as At this point, those who hang their hats and their reputations on described in [3] and [4]. However, the Capetown Clipper (NC-18612) did the existence of “timetables” will be saying, “But my precious timetables not return to civilian service but remained as part of the Special Mission say that this was a mail route.” Bearing in mind that this was a secret fleet of four aircraft as detailed in [5] from Col. W. F. Volandt to Pan military operation, what better way to disguise its presence than by pre - American Airways dated November 7, 1942. It instructs Pan American senting as a purely civilian mail service. Certainly Juan Trippe would that they are now to operate NC-18612, support the printing of schedules and “timetables” because that laid . . . previously employed under Contract 21207. . . down a marker for his post-war ambitions to establish his round-the over a new route from Miami to Fisherman’s Lake world flights. . . . or over such other routes and between such other points as may from time to A comment in [2] reads: time be directed by the Commanding General, the Air Transport Command . . . When Contract 21207 was issued, the War Department marked it So, Trippe’s civilian route from Miami into the Congo never hap - “Secret” which has interfered with the proper distribution of copies to those pened and the entire, but short-lived service on this route was operated vitally concerned with its execution. entirely as a military operation. Even after the flights ended in late Octo - In other words, the secrecy was extended even to Pan American staff ber 1942, the aircraft flying the route was retained in military service, as who were trying to run the service. What a way to run an airline (or a can be checked by the re-appearance of NC-18612 in the Special Mission war)! flight schedules from November 1942 onwards. Conclusions Why was it so short-lived? The answer may lie in the history of The 12 round-trip flights from Miami to Leopoldville that took the Army Air Forces [6] which contains the following: place intermittently between December 1941 and October 1942 were part The Congo route, as it became known, now took the form of an alternate of an entirely military operation and had no direct or incidental signifi - airway into the Middle East. Bases were constructed at Point Noire in French cant civilian purpose. Equatorial Africa, at Leopoldville and Elisabethville in the Belgian Congo, and Previously held views on the so-called FAM-22 mail route are at Nairobi in Kenya. In the dark days of 1942 this alternate route offered insur - just plain wrong. The subject of timetables and their use during World ance against loss of the central African airway, but the rising fortunes of Allied War II will be addressed by someone in due course. military operations soon robbed it of value. Even before the fall of Tunisia in the Despite the entirely military nature of these flights, some civilian spring of 1943, the Congo route no longer possessed military significance. (my mail was carried, much to the annoyance of the U.S. Post Office Depart - emphasis) ment as shown in a letter dated June 5, 1942, from the Second Assistant And again: Postmaster General to Mrs. Archibald, Assistant Vice President of Pan Air Transport Command had next to find the personnel to man American Airways which says: the bases on the coastal route. One source of manpower was found in the With reference to inbound and inter-country carried by your 14th Ferrying Group, previously assigned to the Congo route, the alter - planes on FAM-22, it is pointed out that waybills have not been received for the nate airway to Khartoum and the Middle East by way of bases in French purpose of submitting claims to foreign countries . . . this Department is in Equatorial Africa, the Belgian Congo, and Kenya Colony. The group's receipt of a letter from the Postal Administration of Belgian Congo requesting headquarters had been set up at Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo, and that the claims against said country be submitted as soon as practicable. one of its three authorized squadrons had been activated when Allied Mail carried on the actual flights from Leopoldville is difficult to identify successes in the north rendered the Congo route superfluous. (but it can be done) and rare, since on a revenue basis it only comprised And again: 0.6% of the total revenues generated by the Pan American military flights From Accra on the west African coast to Karachi in India, the main air across the South Atlantic during 1942 [see Ref 3]. route extended nearly 6,000 miles, while auxiliary lines, exclusive of the now inactive Congo route , brought the total mileage to over 10,000. PAGE 26 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 27 References [1] Bender, M. and Altschul, S.: The Chosen Instrument , Simon & Schuster, New York. (1982). [2] ASM 0341 Box 333 Folder 9. Richter Library, University of Miami. [3] Wilson, John: “Pan American, FAM-22, Special Missions, 1942 and 70 years of Misunderstanding” Airpost Journal, December 2011 (American Air Mail Society) and Cameo, January 2012 (West Africa Study Circle). [4] Wilson, John: “FAM-22: Fact or Fantasy?” Airpost Journal , May 2012 (American Air Mail Society) [5] ASM 0341 Box 24 Folder 41. Richter Library, University of Miami. [6] Craven, Frank W. and Cate, James L.: The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume VII . University of Chicago (1958). New imprint by the Office of Air Force History, Washington D.C. (1983). News of the Shows

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PAGE 28 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 29 Airmail for Tobacco in 1918 as souvenirs of that event. In this case the signature is that of United States Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson. Joe Kirker With all of the anti-tobacco campaigning so prevalent in our modern media, it is fascinating to view how that use was so well encour - Any enclosures still retained with material can aged and accepted several decades ago. As Burleson states, "it soothes, often be important, or at least interesting to read. They are portals to the contents, and is indispensible." Why not “smoke one or two cigars for the past and first-hand accounts of the period. The letter presented here was Glory of God?” enclosed in one of the May 15, 1918 C3 first flights and among many How times have changed! which were prepared by dignitaries, politicians and notables of the day Volunteer! It’s good for everybody. AAMS Publications Inventory Reduction Sale Through April 15, 2013 Sale to AAMS Members at 40% of Retail Price Title Retail Reduction Price Price Paris Balloon Posts 12.50* 5.00 Newfoundland Airmails 18.00* 7.20 Pioneer Airplane Airmails 25.00* 10.00 – Kronstein 20.00* 8.00 Glider Mail 20.00* 8.00 Airpost Journal Index (1990) 12.00* 4.80 Aerial Mail Service 15.00 6.00 Pioneer Hungarian Airmail 15.00 6.00 Brazil Airmails 15.00 6.00 Max 15.00 6.00

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PAGE 30 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 31 AAMS Convenes at ARIPEX The American Air Mail Society’s 2013 convention is being held Obituary in conjunction with ARIPEX. The show is set for April 19 through 21 in Mesa, Arizona. The Phoenix Marriott Hotel Mesa serves as the show hotel. Infor - Robert Outlaw mation about accommodations is available on the ARIPEX 2013 website: www.aripex.org Convention coordinator Ken Sanford has scheduled a trio of 1929-2012 A rare site at a stamp show is a husband and wife collecting aerophilatelic speakers to present programs. AAMS vice president David team. One such team was Marge and Bob Outlaw. For decades, if you Steidley opens the program schedule on Friday, April 19 with his presen - saw one, you saw the other. Marge collected her home state of Tennessee tation of “Modern U.S. Airmail Postal History Gems.” “Airmail postal history, and Bob collected airmail and North Carolina postal histo - Envelopes” is the subject of Bob Shoemaker’s Saturday talk and Bill Fort ry. I first met the two of them in the early 1980s through my involve - rounds out the weekend with his Sunday program on “Wartime Trans- ment with the Confederate Stamp Alliance. Shortly after the North Car - Pacific Airmail.” olina Postal History Society was formed, Bob joined and retained his The annual AAMS membership meting takes place Saturday at membership until his demise. 10 a.m., followed by the AAMS auction at 11. After Marge’s death in 2005, Bob would regularly tell me he was Aerophilatelic exhibits are also needed to fill as many frames as ready to join her at any time. Bob was born on August 24, 1929 to Lewis possible. Exhibit entry forms can be downloaded from the website. James and Sadie Outlaw in Goldsboro, North Carolina. He served in the The show promises to be a good one with 40 to 50 dealers United States Army during the Korean conflict. As many Southerners expected on the bourse. Many of the dealers sell aerophilatelic material. did at the time, he moved to the Chicago area for a better job. It was here he met and married Marge. Bob was active in the 47th regiment, North Carolina troops, Camp 166, Sons of Confederate Veterans, an active member of the Con - federate Stamp Alliance and past president of the American Air Mail Society. On Sunday, October 14, 2012, Bob passed away at the William Dunlap Center for Care in Raleigh, North Carolina. Without a doubt, Bob will be missed. Those who knew him, know he is happy to be back with his first love, Marge. Submitted by Tony Crumbley

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PAGE 32 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 33 The F.I.S.A. medal was just one of Murray's many achievements in aerophilately. Obituary He was an enthusiastic exhibitor. His first exhibit was a "History of Flight," created for a show at the North Toronto Stamp Club, of which he was a longtime member. This won the CIBC silver bowl. Murray went Murray Heifetz on to develop many more exhibits over the years. His aerophilatelic exhibits included one on Palestine Airmail which won several vermeils; 1923 -2012 one on “Airship Mail To and From Canada,” which won a Gold at the Royal; and an exhibit "Canada Airmails," awarded an International Gold Murray Heifetz was a man of many talents: philatelically, profes - in Moscow in 1997. sionally, as a bridge player, and in other activities. Murray also had many philatelic interests beyond aerophilately, In recent years, Murray was best including thematic collections on the “History of Airlines;” the “Six Point known for his book O.A.T. and A.V.2 Mark - Star” or Star of David; and the “History of World Tourism.” He was a ings. This was originally published by the member of the Philatelic Specialists Society since 1981, and over the American Air Mail Society in 1998. A second course of his membership gave 12 presentations to the PSSC - the most of edition was published in 2000 with a third in any member! 2006. Murray was a past president of the PSSC; a Fellow of the Cana - The impact of his book was demon - dian Aerophilatelic Society; a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society of strated at AEROPHILATELY 2007, a national Canada; an International Level Judge in Aerophilately; the Canadian del - level, all-airmail show organized by the egate to the FIP Aerophilately Commission; and recipient of the AAMS AAMS. During the Judges' Critique, one of George W. Angers Memorial Award 2012 for his outstanding service to the exhibitors asked for comments on their aerophilately. exhibit of "European Acceptances for O.A.T. Murray was very generous in sharing the knowledge he from New York Until 1946," which had won acquired. He was mentor to several new exhibitors, and until recently, a Vermeil medal. The first response was that had the most bylines of any author for articles in The Canadian Aerophilat - the exhibitor should think about changing elist. His last item in that journal was his philatelic memoirs, which were the title! The judge commented that although "O.A.T." does indeed refer published in the September 2012 issue. "Murray's Memoirs" have also to Onward Air Transmission of mail that had arrived by surface means, been posted on the web at www.aerophilately.ca which the exhibitor had showed very well, since Murray's book has been Murray was born on August 12, 1923. In his student days, he published, when people hear the term "O.A.T." they now think of the completed a degree in aeronautical engineering at MIT. He then returned usually egg-shaped handstamp applied to covers for Onward Air Trans - to Canada, started helping at his father's travel agency in Toronto, got mission! Unfortunately for the exhibitor, not only were there no covers engrossed in the business and never left it. Murray had a distinguished with this handstamp in his exhibit, but there could not be any, as the egg career in the travel industry, chosen as the second honorary life member shaped handstamp was not used in New York, but mainly in London, of the Association of Canadian Travel Agencies. England. To have influenced how people interpret a philatelic term is a In addition to his philatelic and professional achievements, Mur - remarkable achievement! ray also won awards in bridge, tennis, bowling and curling. During AEROPHILATELY 2007, the International Federation of Murray Heifetz died Sunday November 4, 2012 at the Constantia Aerophilatelic Societies, (F.I.S.A.), presented Murray with a Bronze Retirement Residence in Thornhill, Ontario. He will be missed by many F.I.S.A. Medal for the book. Murray also received The Herbert Dubé people. Award from the Philatelic Specialists Society of Canada for this work. Chris Hargreaves PAGE 34 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 35 President - Canadian Aerophilat - elic Society American American Air Mail Society Air Mail Society Membership and Subscriptions Annual membership dues for new members, which includes a subscrip - Dedicated to the research, study, documentation and tion to the Airpost Journal is $28 domestic, $33 Canada, $48 Mexico and preservation of aerophilately. $58 worldwide. All foreign dues include first-class airmail shipment. Organized in 1923, Incorporated in 1944 as a non-profit corporation of the state of Ohio Publication IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit organization APS affiliate #77 Monthly Official Publication: Airpost Journal Editor and Advertising: Vickie Canfield Peters, 11911 E. Connor Road, PRESIDENT: Jim Graue, 11911 East Connor Road, Valleyford WA 99036 Valleyford WA 99036 ([email protected]) ([email protected])

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PAGE 36 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 37 Record Round-the-World Flights by Aviators Wiley Post, Howard Hughes and Bill Odom 10 Airpost Journal Astrophilately Rocket Aeroplanes, Guided Missiles and Manned Space Flights 325

Aviation Meetings INDEX The People’s Aviation Meet: Los Angeles, January 1912 160

Volume 83 Aviators Ammel’s Blue Flash Flight from New York to the Canal Zone 376 Calendar Year 2012 Calbraith Perry Rodgers: The Story Behind the Stamp 315 Whole Number 979 - 990 Earle L. Ovington – More of the Story and an Honor Denied by USPS 156 Issue Dates and Page Numbers First American to Fly Across the Andes (Jimmy Doolittle) 296 January 1 – 44 July 265 – 308 Harriet Quimby Flies Solo Across the English Channel 108 February 45 – 88 August 309 – 352 Record Round-the-World Flights by Aviators Wiley Post, March 89 – 132 September 353 – 396 Howard Hughes and Bill Odom 10 April 133 – 176 October 397 – 440 May 177 – 220 November 441 – 484 Awards June 221 – 264 December 485 – 528 Frommer Receives Kingdom Award 303 Jim Graue Receives Luff Award 435 Aircraft Major AAMS Awards for 2012 432 Bermuda-Based PB2Y Coronados: Mail on a Familiar Route? 338 Murray Heifetz Receives Angers Award 446

Airmail Elsewhere in Print (Alan Warren column) 24, 252, 388, 521 A Moment in Time and an Incredible Find 244 Airpost Journal Day of the Airmen 281 Index to Volume 82, Calendar Year 2011 30 Bermuda Air Races Bermuda-Based PB2Y Coronados: Mail on a Familiar Route? 338 Score of Race Pilots Sign 1934 Cleveland Air Race Cover 459 Book Review American Air Mail Society A. C. Roessler’s Canadiana 28 Board of Directors Meeting, February 5, 2012 118 Canal Zone and Panama Aerophilately and Associated Jack Knight Air Log Publication Discontinued 123 with the First Byrd Antarctic Expedition (BAE I), 1928-1930 167 SESCAL 2011 Report 26 De Indiëlijn van der KLM herboren 1945-1950 116 Special Notices to the AAMS Membership 54, 125 Dutch Air Mail Catalogue 241 LZ-129 Hindenburg – Zeppelin Crash Mail 296 Around the World Flights The Ross Smith Stamp and Its Postal History 81 1939 Westward Around-the-World Cover 391 PAGE 38 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 39 Canal Zone Letters to the Editor 3, 47, 91, 179, 224, 311, 355, 399, 443 Ammel’s Blue Flash Flight from New York to the Canal Zone 376 Mail Catalogs Certificates of Mailing 56 Air Transport Label Catalog 164 American Air Mail Catalog 169 National Air Mail Week Dutch Air Mail Catalogue (book review) 241 The Pilot Who Couldn’t Say ‘No’ 195

Censorship Navy Aviation Tripartite Agreement 1942 332 United States Naval Aviation Celebrates 100 Years 112

Collecting News of the Shows (aerophilatelic exhibits) 95, 256, 344, 430, 477, 523 Questions from an AAMS Member 475 Note from the Editor (Vickie Canfield Peters) 96, 139, 404, 448 Crash Covers The LZ-129 Hindenburg Phantom Crash Covers 184 Obituaries Robert J. Anderson 126 Editor’s Log (Wayne L. Youngblood) 5, 49 Frank H. Blumenthal 258 Philip R. McCarty 126 Emergency Airmail Flights 1934 (U.S. Army) Gerhard S. Wolff 258 Deaths of Army Emergency Flights Pilots Prepared U.S. for War 504 Pan Am Notes (Bob Wilcsek column) Exhibiting The Route is in the Rate 225 Exhibiting ‘Out of the Box’ 254 Western Australia Hosts Gaffa Challenge 300 Pan American Atlantic FAM-22: Fact or Fantasy? 191, 278, 341, 368 First Flights Pan Am Airways 1942 Confidential Timetables – Revisited 491 An Unexpected (Washington DC to The China Clipper and the Manhattan Project 58 Paris, May 1991) 213 Uranium from Leopoldville? 152

FISA Pan American Pacific WESTPEX 2013 Hosts FISA Congress 346 An Unusual Last Flight Cover and a Mystery Solved 150 Delayed Pan Am Airmail (March 1936) 382 Internet Varieties of Wake Island “Chain Cachet” Survey Flight Covers 20 Perusing the Web 248 Pioneer Aviation / Airmail Jenny Airmails It Happened a Century Ago 269 C3 “Grounded Plane” Covers: Mystery of #13 Finally Solved 74 More on SCADTA: The 1918 Jenny Issue 386 Poland U.S. Airmail of 1918: Special Delivery Optional 416 Development of Airmail Services in Poland 1929-1939 PAGE 40 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 41 357, 407, 451, 508

President’s Message 7, 51, 93, 135, 181, 223, 267, 312, 355, 402, 445, 487 AAMS Membership Report December 2012 Question Corner / Central 105, 166, 250 Submitted by Membership Secretary Rudy Roy

Rates Reinstated 80 Pfennigs Airmail Rate for a POW Card? 17 11866 Felzman, Ulrich Routes And the Winner is . . . 99 Deceased Japanese Invasion and the End of the Great Horseshoe Route 08020 Roger O. Gilruth 140, 201 Resigned The Double Sunrise Service (Indian Ocean Route 1943-1945) 09621 Cooper, Graham M. 420, 464 12025 Eeles, C. David 11468 Kuhn, Hans H. SCADTA 11643 Lampson, Mike More on SCADTA: The 1918 Jenny Issue 386 11981 Pulley, Dean E. The Saga of SCADTA 288 11153 Raugh, Stanley W.

Sweden Lapsed Sweden’s First Charity Airmail Flight 210 10646 Dole, Richard F., Jr. 11730 Davis, Steve B. Stamps 12139 Knight, Sally F. A Stamp for the Contract Airmail? 106 12022 Morse, Larry E. C3 “Grounded Plane” Covers: The Mystery of #13 Finally Solved 74 — Summary — U.S. 10-Cent Long Map of 1926: Plate with No Name(s) 517 Total Membership — November 1, 2012 ...... 1,022 New Members ...... +3 Trans-Ocean Airmail (see also: PAA Atlantic and PAA Pacific) Reinstated ...... +1 More on Trans-Atlantic Airmail History 1937-1940 233 Deceased ...... -1 Resigned ...... -6 Zeppelin Lapsed ...... -4 The LZ-129 Hindenburg Phantom Crash Covers 184 Total Membership — December 1, 2012 ...... 1,015 Two Identical Covers from New York to Brazil via Hindenburg from Germany 472

Zeppelin Letters (Bob Wilcsek column) ASendd adll ardderesss scha nCgesh ora conrrecgtioens sto Societa Aerea Mediterranea Cards from the 1933 Romfahrt 77 Membership secretary Rudy Roy, Box 5367, Virginia Beach VA 23471-0367 or email

PAGE 42 AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 2013 PAGE 43 AAMS EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT APJ ADS BUY — SELL — WANT LIST All members, including Life Mem - bers, are entitled to two free 25-word WANTED and EXCHANGE “Wanted and Exchange” notices per year in the APJ Ads section of the SEEKING Lt. Walter Hinton’s Journal. Members are encouraged to National Exchange Club Air Tour take advantage of this benefit. (1930s) cacheted covers. Trying to complete catalog of his apperances. RATES Send city and cancel date to TWENTY CENTS PER WORD . [email protected]. Will buy yours Minimum $5 per insertion. or trade my dupes. State price or Remittance must accompany order dates needed. Questions? Call Bob and copy. The Airpost Journal, 11911 Quintero at 248-546-0038 or wtire: E. Connor Road, Valleyford WA 22608 Poplar Court, Hazel Park MI 99036. Ads can also be emailed to 48030-1928 2/13 [email protected]. * * * Ads must be received by first CHRISTMAS Greetings Aero - of the month preceding publication grammes used in World War II date. wanted. Peter Fink, Restaurant FOR SALE Lowen, CH-9532 Rickenbach/Wil Switzerland. FAX: 011 41 U.S. FIRST Flight covers, some 719124315, telephone 011 41 hand-drawn, 55/$49; Lindbergh- 719233010 1/13 related covers, 22/$55; Zeppelin- * * * related covers, 20/$55; aviation 1937 BERMUDA -NY and 1938 Bal - fighter, airplanes, jets postcards, timore-Bermuda postal history items 30/$58. Victor Schwez, 10519 wanted. Especially need non-FFCs Casanes Ave., Downey CA 90241 carried on this route. John Pare, 405 9/13 Perimeter St., Mount Horeb, WI * * * 53572; or send email to me at AEROGRAMMES for sale from all [email protected] 2/13 over the world. More than 200 coun - tries represented. Peter Fink, Restau - rant Lowen, CH-9532 Ricken - bach/Wil Switzerland. FAX: 011 41 719124315, telephone 011 41 719233010 2/13

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