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April 2015 Volume 86, No. 4 Whole No. 1018

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APRIL 2015 PAGE 133 In This Issue of the Airpost Journal President’s — ARTICLES — Jim Graue Message Collecting Commercial Aviation Covers ...... 136 Steven J. Turechek Onward Air Transmission of Hindenburg Mail from New York ...... 142 2015 AAMS Convention at NAPEX Richard Saundry Annual AAMS convention for 2015 Seldom-Seen Experimental Flight Covers ...... 146 What June 5-7, 2015 Harlan Radford Jr. When McLean, Virginia near Washington, D.C. CAM 6 and 7 Error Cachets ...... 150 Where Hilton McLean Tysons Corner Jamie O’Bannon Site Thanks, Ma L! ...... 153 7920 Jones Branch Drive, McLean VA 22102 Jamie O’Bannon Phone: 703-7612-5111 When FAM-22’ is Not Enough ...... 156 Dulles International (IAD) is closest. Airport John Wilson Some Interesting FAM-2 Covers ...... 162 Ralph Valles Trading with the Enemy ...... 165 Exhibitor’s Prospectus and Entry Form Available now via link from AAMS Website (americanairmail - Jamie O’Bannon society.org). Exhibitors are urged to submit their entry form(s) as soon as — COLUMNS and FEATURES — possible. President’s Message ...... 135 News of the Shows ...... 169 Question Central ...... 168 Future AAMS Meeting Sites NAPEX — DEPARTMENTS – McLean, Virginia June 5-7, 2015 APJ Ads ...... 132 Membership Report ...... 131 2016 World Exhibition* New York, New York May 28 - June 4, 2016

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PAGE 134 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2015 PAGE 135 anniversary of airmail service in southern California which seems too Collecting Commercial early to be significant and printed too large to be anything other than philatelic. But this scruffy cover has done its job in preserving the con - tents and the contents bear out its commercial nature. Given as a “carto - Aviation Covers graph,” it is a type of greeting card that when unfolded simultaneously

Steve Turechek, Major, USAF (Ret.) When it comes to commercial airpost the market abounds in cov - ers priced from pennies to thousands of dollars. A multitude of $1 covers languish in dealer boxes, unattractive to most collectors. At the opposite end of the price spectrum, covers are so few or so pricey that forming a collection can take one’s productive lifetime, or deplete the bank accounts, or both. Yet occasionally one can find pure aviation-themed commercial airpost covers. Such covers evidence historical aspects of air - mail service development such as marketing or sustained operations. Promotion of airmail service was sometimes a joint undertaking by the early airlines and by the Post Office Department for their mutual benefit. The cover in Figure 1, with its nearly indistinct Olive View, Cali - fornia postmark dated April 25, 1929, and tired beacon stamp, appears overly ripe for the discount box. The outsized corner card boasts a third

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PAGE 136 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2015 PAGE 137 Figure 4 Sioux (or Soo as it was sometimes spelled) Skyways was a sub - sidiary of the Sioux Falls Airport Holding Company. Sioux Skyways engaged in different commercial aviation activities including cross coun - try flights, pilot training and charter service. An airmail etiquette indi - cates Mid-Continent Airlines carried this cover. Founded in 1928 in Sioux City, Iowa, Mid-Continent was eventually headquartered in Kansas City. The City of Sioux Falls leased its airfield to Mid-Continent for passenger and airmail service, under the management of Sioux Sky - ways. Airmail service began in January 1932 in Sioux Falls. Mid-Conti - nent merged with Braniff International Airways in 1952. The cover is addressed to the service department of the Stinson Aircraft Company in Wayne, Michigan. Founded in 1925 by stunt flyer Edward Anderson Stinson Jr., the Stinson Aircraft Company was head - quartered in Wayne. Stinson was a dominant force in commercial and general aviation from the late 1920s on through World War II, producing Figure 3 thousands of light planes and dozens of tri-motored airliners. Stinson educated, celebrated and promoted airmail service and commercial avia - tion in Los Angeles and southern California. The contents of the cover are shown in Figure 2 (folded closed for mailing) and in Figure 3 (unfolded for viewing). Airpost collectors might expect an abundance of airplane facto - ry, airline and airport covers surviving in the philatelic marketplace. Yet covers such as the one in Figure 4 are not common, at least judging from the paucity of similar material available on eBay, the APS stamp store, recent stamp shows in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas or described in the pages of this publication, a fairly representative sample of the market - place. The cover was posted October 31, 1941 from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, headquarters of Sioux Skyways. Figure 5

PAGE 138 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2015 PAGE 139 died as a result of injuries sustained when the wing of the airplane he was flying struck a pole and sheared off during an emergency landing on a golf course in 1932; his three passengers survived. The cover in Figure 5 is an appealing airmail development item. Postmarked on October 1, 1952, in Honolulu, Hawaii, it is addressed to Klamath Falls, Oregon. The combination of Air Transport Association of America (ATA) corner card and the purple LEAGUE CONVENTION AIR MAIL TEST marking invite questions about post office cooperation with the ATA to advance airmail service. The ATA was founded January 3, 1936, when representatives of 17 airlines met in Chicago to draw up a set of objectives for a new orga - nization, the purpose of which was "to do all things tending to promote Figure 6 the betterment of airline business, and in general, to do everything in its power to best serve the interest and welfare of the members of the associ - ALBERT P. LINO, ation and the public at large." Today, renamed Airlines for America, the Postmaster. trade organization strives to foster a business and regulatory environ - The cover has a manuscript docketing notation on the reverse: ment that ensures safe and secure air transportation and economic “Delivered about 2 pm. Oct 3, 1952.” It seems a bit unusual for a post - growth in the U.S. and abroad. More information can be found at: master to use a trade organization’s airmail stationery, but perhaps air - www.airlines.org. mail envelopes were supplied by the ATA specifically for the test. As for determining the nature of the cover, the letter contents are One final example of a commercial airline business cover is preserved inside. On Post Office Department letterhead then-Honolulu shown in Figure 6 It was initially postmarked at the Boston South Postal Postmaster Albert Lino wrote to “Skipper” Simon, his counterpart in Annex on July 13, 1953. Addressed to the attention of the Qantas Empire Klamath Falls: Airways manager in Melbourne, Australia, the cover was under-franked and never left the airfield. Additional postage in the form of 1 ȼ and 9 ȼ My dear Sir: Prexie issues was added and these stamps were canceled on July 14. The Please let me extend to you my warmest greetings from Hawaii and four-line purple marking with “Postage Due, Total postage required” congratulate you for participating in this air mail test. and “Rate” blanks penciled in by the postal clerk officially located the I was delighted to learn that you chose to test the air mail service from correct rate info right on the face of the cover, a welcome convenience for my office to yours. I feel sure this test will be a success and if you have a any modern aeropostal historian! Although all six postmark strikes are moment, I would be pleased to hear from you after you have completed the test. I somewhat indistinct, the “AIR MAIL” killer just happened to catch for - understand that you are going to report the results of your test to the Air Mail mer President William Henry Harrison literally “on the nose.” Committee of the Air Transport Association in Washington, D.C. I know they While commercial aviation covers rarely, if ever, make headlines will be greatly interested in the newspaper articles and the Post Office lobby dis - in the philatelic press or command impressive hammer prices at auction plays resulting from your participation. or grace the pages of catalogs, they (like any chef’s secret ingredient) I have heard that you had a wonderful National Convention of the each flavor our hobby as only aviation can. Perhaps you have a few like League of District Postmasters in Spokane, Washington and you have my best these with stories to tell here in the ? wishes for a highly successful year. Airpost Journal Aloha Nui Loa. Reference Sincerely, Smith, Charles A., A Comprehensive History of Minnehaha County, (signed) 1949, p185. South Dakota, PAGE 140 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2015 PAGE 141 beyond New York and with due diligence over the years have acquired a number of covers that arrived in New York on the and were Onward Air Transmission of Hindenburg flown to destinations in a number of other countries. German, Belgian Hindenburg Mail from New York and Liechtenstein covers flown to Colombia and to Canada, though scarce, have been located, as have a few covers addressed to Brazil and Richard Saundry Central America. I don’t regard these as being out of the ordinary. A major aerophilatelic interest of mine is the study of European airmail covers that were pre-paid for onward air transmission beyond New York to destinations, not only in the continental United States, but to Canada, Latin America and many trans-Pacific destinations. Before Pan American Airways inaugurated scheduled FAM-18 trans-Atlantic services using heavier-than-air aircraft in May 1939, the vast proportion of letters and cards arriving in New York arrived by ship; the exceptions being mail using the German catapult ships and mail flown on the air - ship LZ129 . Hindenburg The made 10 round trips between Germany and Hindenburg New York in the May to October 1936 flying season. I assume the vast proportion of all the mail the airship carried in both directions across the North Atlantic was philatelically contrived. In fact, the first round trip, May 6-14, 1936, was deliberately timed to coincide with the Third Inter - national Stamp Exhibition in New York. The attendant publicity engen - dered by the flight among interested stamp collectors was not only of great benefit to the German airline company itself, but the hype sur - rounding the Zeppelin trans-Atlantic air service also served to increase the number of covers posted on this and all subsequent Hindenburg Figure 1 flights by interested collectors on both sides of the Atlantic. I chose to illustrate a registered cover (Figure 1), actually a post - Most collectors in Europe, however, were more than satisfied to card, sent from Frankfurt, Germany to San Salvador in the Republic of El be able to include in their collections any covers that were flown by the Salvador. Mailed April 29, 1936 and franked RM1.25, the card was flown on the North Atlantic route, with the result that the vast pro - Hindenburg on the first North America flight that left Friedrichshafen May 6, arriving portion of all the covers carried were only addressed as far as New York. New York on May 9. Note the printed endorsement bottom left corner: Such covers are readily available and attract fairly reasonable affordable “Mit Luftschiff nach Nordamerika / Via Air Mail New York – San Sal - prices, whether offered by specialist dealers or by eBay sellers. What are vador.” The card was correctly franked a total of 125Rpf: 15Rpf., the Ger - decidedly less common, however, are covers where the senders have man international postcard rate, 30Rpf registration plus 50Rpf. per 5 deliberately added extra postage to accommodate supplementary gram,. the airship surcharge rate, plus an additional 30Rpf. per 5 grams charges for onward air transmission beyond New York to destinations for onward air transmission from the U.S.A. to El Salvador. The card within the continental United States or to other countries. Such covers arrived in San Salvador on May 13, conclusive proof it was properly are invariably recognizable not only because of the added postage but flown beyond New York in accordance with the sender’s wishes. because they also bear specific endorsements by the senders requesting Readers will note that inspection of registered letters is more their covers or cards be flown from New York. useful than ordinary letters in determining whether or not senders’ pref - As I say, I am an avid collector of European flown erences for onward transmission were honored by the USPOD, since

PAGE 142 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2015 PAGE 143 only registered letters received arrival date stamps. Quite honestly, in all the years I have been actively collecting mail flown beyond New York, I have never been entirely satisfied that mail arriving in the United States on the was ever properly flown to any U.S. internal destina - Hindenburg tion, and all this despite senders’ clear endorsements that this was requested and the covers or cards bore the requisite correct supplemen - tary postage.

Figure 2, reverse nal destination. The cover was postmarked on arrival in New York using the oval registry date stamp for July 2, proving it reached the United States on the , but the arrival date stamp for Palo Alto, California is Hindenburg that of July 6. A lapsed time of four days New York to California means the piece traveled by rail, not by air. As I say, to date I have never happened upon any Hindenburg cover of which I could be entirely confident had been properly flown beyond New York to any internal destination. Was there, in fact, a delib - erate USPOD policy not to fly covers to internal destinations? Figure 2 Hindenburg I believe this may well have been the case. In fact I remember years ago Let me illustrate this particular point using a cover from my col - the late Frans van Beveren telling me that mail was never lection. The sender posted the registered cover in question (Figure 2), Hindenburg flown beyond New York. I now regret I never asked Frans why. weighing 18 grams., in Hannover on June 26, 1936. This was in plenty of The question then is, does anybody know, or can confirm, my time to be carried on the Fourth North America Flight of the , Hindenburg thesis that the USPOD pursued a deliberate policy of not forwarding by that left Friedrichshafen on June 30. The sender clearly wished the letter airmail mail arriving in New York on the ? If that was the to be flown by the to New York, and then flown to the desti - Hindenburg Hindenburg case, the Americans were definitely in breach of accepted UPU interna - nation in Palo Alto, California, as directed in the clearly typed endorse - tional air mail agreements. German covers arriving in the USA by ship, ment: “Mit Luftschiff nach Nord-Amerika / mit Luftpost weiter ab New and properly franked with supplementary postage for onward air trans - York.” The franking of RM2.95 is correct for a (16 – 20) gram letter flown mission within the continental United States, were always forwarded by per the sender’s wishes: 25Rpf. up to 20 gm. surface letter rate, 30Rpf. the fasted means possible, including aircraft, to destination. registration, 4 x 50Rpf. per 5 gm. trans-Atlantic airship postage and 4 x 10Rpf. per 5 gm. postage rate for onward air transmission to a US inter -

PAGE 144 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2015 PAGE 145 The airmail cover shown in Figures 1 and 2 has quite an interest - ing history. It was prepared by the renowned stamp dealer, A.C. Roessler of E. Orange, New Jersey. His intent was to have stamped envelopes carried on board the special experimental round-trip airmail speed flight service between the new East Coast terminal of New York (Hadley Field, five miles from New Brunswick, New Jersey) to the West Coast terminal in San Francisco and return. Figure 1 shows the front of the 24-cent air franked cover addressed to the Superintendent of the Air Mail Field at San Francisco. The cover reveals a nicely struck New York Air Mail Field (NYC-1, Type 1) postmark dated May 9, 1925, 10AM. Figure 2 depicts the reverse side of the same cover with two airmail stamps, each bearing very well applied and legible San Francisco Air Mail Field (SFO-1, Type 1) imprints put on the next day, May 10, 1925 at 5PM. The cover was then Figure 1 dispatched and flown back across the country to New York where it was delivered to the original sender. At this point it should be noted that on January 28, 1925, the Air Seldom-Seen Experimental Mail Service moved the West Coast terminal of the transcontinental air - mail route from Crissy Field or the Marina Flying Field, which was locat - Airmail Flight Covers ed on the shores of the San Francisco Bay, to a new site some 25 miles Harlan Radford Jr. east of the city which would be known as Concord Field. Interestingly, the AMF San Francisco hand cancels used during most of 1925 were Selected for description and illustration here are two notable but actually applied at the Concord Field in Concord, California and it seldom seen experimental airmail flight covers dated 1925 and 1919, would not be until September 1926 and later in early 1927 that an actual respectively. AMF Concord postmark would be placed into very limited use. Turning our attention now back to the cover and based on addi - tional information gleaned from the (Volume American Air Mail Catalogue One, Sixth Edition), the elapsed time for this experimental airmail service was a record time of 56 hours. That same authoritative reference source also noted that “few covers were carried on this round-trip flight and very few examples have been reported.” This officially listed U.S. Gov - ernmental flight cover is designated No. 172 and is said to be AAMC “very rare.” As a result of the success of the flight, the post office decided regularly scheduled airmail flight operations were possible and on July 1, 1925, U.S. Postmaster General Henry New officially inaugurated the first night, long-distance, coast-to-coast airmail service. The transconti - nental government-operated airmail route between New York and San Francisco became the backbone of what would soon prove to be the first Figure 2 commercial airmail routes in 1926. There were a total of 18 terminal air -

PAGE 146 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2015 PAGE 147 fields, 89 emergency fields and approximately 500 beacon navigation OFFICIAL EXPERIMENT / DEC. 5, 1919 / WASHINGTON, DC.” Addi - lights along the 2,665-mile airway. tionally this cover bears an elongated boxed inscription stating “JAHN The second cover featured here is listed in the AERIAL MAIL DROPPING APPARATUS” which was also applied in American Air Mail as U.S. Governmental Flight No. 121. This unusual philatelic purple ink. A post office backstamp was provided and appears on the Catalogue find is a souvenir of the first official experiment in dropping mailbags reverse side of this envelope: “WASHINGTON, D.C. / DEC. 5 / 12M/ from airplanes by use of the Jahn Parachute, a new delivery device 1919.” invented by Leroy B. Jahn. On December 5, 1919, Walter H. Stevens of In conclusion, this experimental method of mail delivery shows the Aerial Mail Service piloted one of the new twin-motored 800 horse- how the Post Office Department was intently interested in innovation, power mail planes from Bolling Field to the U.S. Capitol grounds. He progress and trying to find better ways to convey the mail in the early successfully dropped a mailbag containing 50 pounds of mail and other part of the 20th century. matter before an august assemblage of onlookers including army and navy officials as well as representatives and senators. It was reported that the mailbag was dropped from an elevation of 400 feet with the new W A N T E D parachute and landed about 100 feet from the Capitol Building. This demonstration showed it was possible for mail planes to Color Scans of Airmail Covers for AAMC dispose of their cargo without landing. It was touted that Congressional High resolution full-size full-color scans of covers are mail in the future might be delivered at the door of the Capitol and needed for the new smaller cities between terminals might also be given more timely deliv - American Air Mail Catalogue, ery service without the planes landing. 7th Edition Trans-Ocean Flights World-Wide Air Crash Covers (Recovered Mail) These extremely important sections are nearing completion of the texts but are far short of the scans needed for illustrations. Most airmail collectors have these in their collections in some number; only a few for most, up to hundreds for long-time specialists. We need scans of these covers in every collection.

Scan Specifications Resolution 300 dpi minimum, full-size, full-color Save each scan as a separate TIF or JPEG file Title each scan briefly by its date or catalog ( or AAMC Figure 3 Nierinck) number Figure 3 shows one of the 134 souvenir covers (purportedly pre - provide separate numbered index sheet PDF pared by an enterprising Washington, D.C. stamp dealer) flown and or dropped while in flight on December 5, 1919. The cover, franked with two cents postage, received two distinctive circular cancellation imprints in purple ink: “FIRST AERIAL PLANE-NON-STOP-MAIL DELIVERY /

PAGE 148 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2015 PAGE 149 his automobile assembly plants. CAM 6 and 7 Error Cachets The routes were simultaneously inaugurated on February 15, 1926. Circular wheel cachets were applied to covers to commemorate the inaugural flights. The only difference was the dispatching times. Covers Jamie O'Bannon on CAM-6 from Detroit and Dearborn to Cleveland were time-stamped Congressman Clyde Kelly of Pennsylvania was chairman of the 10 AM. CAM-7 covers to Chicago showed a Detroit dispatch of 3 PM and House Post Office Committee. On February 2, 1925, he sponsored H.R. a Dearborn dispatch time of 2 PM. 7064: the Contract Air Mail Bill, which, when enacted, became the Air With the two flights being held on the same day, some cachets Mail Act of 1925. It is commonly referred to as the “Kelly Act.” The act were applied incorrectly. These are listed in the American Air Mail Cata - authorized the postmaster general to contract for domestic airmail ser - Volume One, Seventh Edition. At times, when talking with other logue, vice with commercial air carriers. It also set airmail rates and the level of collectors, identity of error cachets has been discussed. I hope this article cash subsidies to be paid to companies carrying the mail. clears up any confusion. The first Contract Air Mail (CAM) routes were CAM-6 between To properly identify 6E2, the cachet must read, “Dearborn 10 Detroit (Dearborn) and Cleveland and CAM-7 between Detroit (Dear - AM,” and the cover sent to Cleveland, verified by a Cleveland back - born) and Chicago. Dearborn was also used as the airport for mail dis - stamp. The only way to classify 6E2a (with Route 7 cachet in error, 2 PM black) is to have a cover with the 2 PM Dearborn cancel (Route 7) but

Figure 1 and backstamp Figure 2 and backstamp

patched from Detroit. The con - backstamped in Cleveland. This shows that tractor for both routes was the the cover arrived in Cleveland on the Ford Motor Company, operating CAM-6 flight but the wrong cachet was as Ford Air Transport, using a applied (see Figure 1). fleet of six Ford-built Stout 2-AT To properly identify 7W1, the aircraft. The owner of the compa - cachet must read, “Detroit 3 PM,” and the ny, Henry Ford, was using these cover sent to Chicago, verified by a Chicago planes to transport spare parts for backstamp. 7W1a (with Route 6 cachet in

PAGE 150 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2015 PAGE 151 error, 10 AM black) is a cover with the 10 AM Detroit cancel (Route 6) but backstamped in Chicago (Figure 2). It is imperative that the cover have a backstamp to correctly identify an error cachet. It is not possible to correctly identify 7W1a (Detroit 10 AM cancel) as an “error cachet” if only addressed to Chicago. It must have a backstamp to show it arrived in Chicago. Here is a quick reference to help identify the error cachets: • 6E1a - Detroit 3 PM cancel backstamped Cleveland • 6E2a - Dearborn 2 PM cancel backstamped Cleveland • 7W1a - Detroit 10 AM cancel backstamped Chicago • 7W2a - Dearborn 10 AM cancel backstamped Chicago Another listing is 7W1b. This apparently identifies a Detroit dis - patched cover with both the CAM-6 10 AM cachet along with the CAM-7 3 PM cachet. I have never seen one of these covers and would appreciate Thanks, Ma L! anyone with knowledge of this example to contact me! You can email me Don Lussky As did many boys in the 1930s, I had my collections: rocks, at [email protected]. I would suggest collectors review their hold - chewing gum cards, stamps. It was easy to get U.S. stamps then. You just ings to see if they have any of the error cachet covers. They are not easy had to wait for the mailman to come twice a day. to find! My dad's half-brother, my Uncle Frank, worked in the Loop in Another area of interest for CAM-6 and CAM-7 collectors Chicago and at that time there were lots of stamp stores downtown. He includes covers that were postmarked on February 13, 1926, the first day was always treating me to a packet of foreign stamps. I learned how to of the newly issued 10 cent stamp showing the “Map of the United States use a magnifying glass when he gave me a Goya Nude. and Two Mail Planes” (Scott C7) and held for the first flights on February 15, 1926. This will be discussed in another article.

Key to Abbreviations Used to Designate

AM - AirSpopste sctaimalpist, imeisn t of ProsGpLe -c Gtilvideer MFligehmts bers AU - Airpost stamps, used RP - Rocket posts AS - Semi-official stamps NAW - National Air Mail Week SC - SCADTA CC - Crash covers JF - Jet flights OF - Transocean fights HF - Helicopter flights DC - Dedication covers One day when we visited Grandma, she pulled an envelope out PC - Pioneer airpost covers Z - Zeppelin covers of a bundle of mail she had been accumulating and asked me if I'd like it HC - Historical air covers CF - Canadian flight covers to add to my collection. I had never considered collecting envelopes, but SF - Supersonic flights 1D - Airmail First Flight covers when I saw what it was, it dawned on me that mail could be more than PA - Pilot autographs PIX - Photos and assoc. material communication . . . it could be a story unto itself. A letter from my aunt PB - Paris balloon posts ASTRO - in California to my grandmother in Chicago had survived a plane wreck! EL - Etiquettes and labels BC - Balloon covers (not Paris) That was my first cover. APS - Aero-postal stationery CL - Lindberghiama Thanks, Ma L.

PAGE 152 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2015 PAGE 153 PAGE 154 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2015 PAGE 155 Sent from Lisbon in November 1943 and addressed to Matadi in the Belgian Congo, this cover tells a much more interesting story than being dismissed as “FAM-22.” Properly analyzed, it can bring to life the expansion of air transport in wartime. However, if your interest is con - fined to collecting first flight commemorative covers, then stop reading here. This cover may not carry a fancy cachet but it is of aerophilatelic significance. Now read on for the real story. The cover, bearing the correct franking of 51.75 escudos paying for a registered air letter weighing 16-20 g (1.75 surface + 2.00 registra - tion + 4 x 12.00 air fee) was dispatched from Lisbon on November 1, 1943. At this time, Pan American had reverted to the South Atlantic (win - ter) routes and was operating two interleaved services designated Route 13 and Route 14. Route 13 flew New York - Bermuda - Horta - Lisbon - Foynes, then Foynes - Lisbon - Dakar - Natal - Belem - Port of Spain (Trinidad) - San Juan - Bermuda - New York. When ‘FAM-22’ is Not Enough Route 14 differed from Route 13 in that it included a return “shuttle” flight back from Natal to Lisbon before resuming its normal path back to Natal and on to New York. In internal Pan American docu - John Wilson ments, this additional flight was referred to as “The LATI Shuttle.” It was Take a look at the cover above. Now take a look at the back. flown in order to carry mail from South America to Axis -controlled Europe after censorship at San Juan under the terms of the “San Juan Agreement” [1]. Route 14 flew the following combined path: New York - Bermu - da - Horta - Lisbon - Foynes, then Foynes - Lisbon – Dakar - Natal (Fish - erman’s Lake - Bolama - Dakar - Lisbon - Dakar - Bolama -Fisherman’s Lake - Natal*) - Belem - Port of Spain (Trinidad) - San Juan - Bermuda - New York. * LATI Shuttle For this cover, here are two possible flights leaving Lisbon; #13004 which left November 3 and #14002 (the first Route 14 flight) which left November 9. The later Route 13 flight #13006 left Lisbon on November 25 and did not arrive in Bermuda until 28 November 28, too late for the dated transit in New York. It is unlikely the cover was carried on Route 14 since mail on board these flights was off-loaded at Natal and forwarded to Miami by Are you thinking, “Have I seen this article before”? Well, almost, Pan Am local Caribbean services while the Clipper returned to Lisbon on because there was a similar piece in APJ for January 2015, as part of an the “LATI Shuttle.” The cover in question transited New York before ongoing project to show that there is more to a cover than simply being going to Miami, so we can be reasonably certain that it flew on #13004 to described as one person wrote about this very cover: “From our point of Bermuda, arriving on November 6. Again under the terms of the San view this is indeed an example of FAM-22.” Juan Agreement [1] all mail destined to New York was off-loaded at

PAGE 156 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2015 PAGE 157 Bermuda for British censorship, after which it was taken to New York on a later flight. This cover, taken off Flight 13004 at Bermuda on November 6, finally passed through New York on November 20, so a delay of two weeks was incurred for the censorship. PAA Flight 13008 passed through Bermuda on November 20, 1943, departing at 9:58 a.m. after taking on 1,980 pounds of airmail at Bermuda, virtually all of which would have been onward air transmis - sion of mail taken off flights 13002 (BDA on November 4) and 13004 (BDA on November 6) for censoring. Flight 13008 arrived New York (NBA) on November 20 at 3:16 p.m. How do we know the cover went through Bermuda? There is a British PC-90 label under the Congo censor label, and by shining a light through the cover we can see British censor number 2002. This is con - firmed by the work of Konrad Morenweiser as being located in Bermuda at this time. So, we have the first part of the journey on a routine FAM-18 service, flight 13004. Next it went New York to Miami, probably by Eastern Airlines since Pan Am did not have any internal route permissions. The Novem - ber 27 Miami cancel is probably an arrival date and we do not know accurately when the cover left Miami for the second Atlantic crossing, nor do we know how it was carried. Let’s jump to the next dated marks which are those of ferent; the one on the censor label reads “Leopoldville” and the other Leopoldville. Take careful note that the two Leopoldville marks are dif - reads “Leopoldville 1.” Here are examples of similar pairs of marks on covers of my own: These and other covers show that the “Leopoldville” strike was applied on arrival and censorship and the “Leopoldville 1” strike was applied when the cover was sent on from Leopoldville. This rule applies to covers going on from Leopoldville to other African destinations including towns within Congo (e.g. Matadi) or on covers going out of Congo on an Atlantic crossing. Therefore the cover from Portugal arrived in the hands of the Belgian censor on December 21 and was sent on to Matadi on December 22. So we have Miami on November 27 and Leopoldville on Decem - ber 21. That is a long transit time of 24 days; long enough for a sea cross - ing. However the cover would not have been sent from New York to the African air gateway of Miami had it not been intended for onward trans - mission by air and, of course, it was addressed to Matadi which is the Atlantic sea port serving Leopoldville. It would therefore have been in Matadi before Leopoldville had it traveled by sea, so we can assume that it did indeed travel by air. In that case, why the 24 days?

PAGE 158 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2015 PAGE 159 and forwarded to New York, arriving 20 November. Forwarded from New York on 26 November by Eastern Airlines to Miami (Africa gateway) arriving 27 November. Carried by USATC military flight to Accra, Gold Coast, then placed on a Sabena flight to Leopoldville via Lagos, arriving Leopoldville 21 Decem - ber. Forwarded from Leopoldville to Matadi by surface (rail) arriving 24 December.

As Jim Graue points out in his President’s Message in the Janu - ary 2015 , there is much more to analyzing a cover and Airpost Journal how it relates to the development of air transport than simply saying “Flew by FAM-22.” Just look at this cover: Pan Am Lisbon to New York; intercepted in Bermuda; Eastern to Miami; ATC military to Accra; Sabena to Leopoldville . . . is this just “FAM-22?” I don’t think so. We have moved on from this backward-looking method of collecting to a more enlightened approach (unless you still believe and promote the view that what Singley wrote in 1947 is the only definitive statement on trans-Atlantic airmail). Although so far no one has come up with any documentary proof that civil airmail was being carried by the U.S. military flights, it References: has to be assumed that this did happen, and almost certainly by the DC- [1] Wilson J. The San Juan Agreement: Its effects on Pan American airmail 4/C-54 flights from Miami to Accra in the Gold Coast. This was a fast ( . March 2009). routes across the South Atlantic. Airpost Journal service so the cover could have been in Accra within a day or so after [2] Ministry of Civil Aviation. Report on the progress of Civil Aviation 1939- leaving Miami. How then to get from there to Leopoldville? . DS.43225/1. Appendix B. 45. Ref Logically, the cover would have been handed on at Accra to Bel - [3]http:/www.wasc.org.uk/NewFiles/CAA%20report%20complete.pdf gian Sabena who operated a regular weekly service Takoradi-Accra- Lagos and a linking service Lagos-Douala-Leopoldville as shown in the official British CAA Report above. To volunteer for the American This combined image is from the original CAA official govern - Air Mail ment report I transcribed and placed as a free download on the web site Catalog Production Team! of the West Africa Study Circle [3]. Note that the page num - Numerous challenging posi - bers in the transcribed report do not match the original docu - tions are available immediately. ment. Page 246 is page 106/107 of the transcription. BOAC Enrich your airmail experience movement records show frequent cancellations of the Accra- and knowledge. Lagos Sabena flights due to “No Load Available” and this may explain how the delay into Leopoldville occurred. What - ever the detail, the evidence suggests the following analysis: For more information, contact AAMS president Jim Graue Lisbon; 1 November 1943. Carried by Pan American flight at [email protected] 13004 to Bermuda (FAM-18). Off loaded at Bermuda for mail censorship

PAGE 160 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2015 PAGE 161 Figure 2 First day of use of the boxed Seattle-Victoria cachet the route and hired Hubbard to make several flights. Unhappy with Alaska Airways’ performance, the USPOD returned the contract to Hub - bard at the beginning of July 1924. The postcard in Figure 3 was posted in Seattle on September 19, Figure 1 1923, and sent to Shanghai. Alaska Airways flew it from Seattle to Victo - First flight, Seattle-Victoria, October 15, 1920 ria to connect with the outgoing steamship to China. Note the official Some Interesting FAM-2 Covers boxed directional cachet, SEATTLE / VICTORIA / SEAPLANE / MAIL, and the Shanghai receiving stamp (also applied to the back) dated “11 Ralph Valles OCT 23.” The United States Post Office Department (USPOD) awarded the first international airmail contract, FAM-2, to Edward Hubbard of Hub - bard Air Service. Operating from Seattle, Washington to Vancouver, British Columbia, the service was designed to expedite mail to Victoria. Once the mail reached Victoria, it was placed on steamships bound for Pacific points. On return flights, mail was delivered to Seattle in advance of arrival of the steamships from the Orient. On November 18, 1920, a special designation mark was intro - duced by the Seattle post office. It was originally applied in magenta to the top cover of packets of commercial and personal mail for FAM-2 dis - patch. Later, it was applied to individual letters. Figure 2 carries the special FAM-2 cachet. The cover was flown to Victoria and placed on a steamer bound for the Philippines. There it was backstamped and “Returned To Sender.” Hubbard lost the FAM-2 contract to Alaska Airways Corp. in July 1923. Alaska encountered a number of problems in the operation of Figure 3

PAGE 162 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2015 PAGE 163 Trading with the Enemy APJ Book Review John Wilson Illustrated is the front and back of a cover sent from Switzerland Trans-Atlantic & Trans-Africa Mail Service of the United States Army to the United States in July 1941 by Pan American Airways via Lisbon Air Forces Ferrying Command, Air Transport Command, & Contract and Horta. So what? Well, as you can see, it was intercepted in Bermuda Air Carriers During WWII: A Selection of U.S. Post Office Dept., Civil Ken Lawrence, ed. Two Volumes, 400 by British censors and after examination by Censor 5472 was sent back to Aeronautics Bd & Air Force Docs. pages, 9 x 11 in., plastic comb, $800. Self published, Amazon (2014). London for further examination. UK Examiner 8053 condemned it and it Review by David Crotty was held in the UK until the end of the war, being returned to the United For decades collectors and historians were led to believe trans- States in 1946. Atlantic and trans-Africa mail during World War II was carried by one flying boat operating between Miami and Leopoldville on a U.S. postal route known as FAM-22, with BOAC and other carriers taking the mail onward. A continued search of Pan American Airways records at the University of Miami opened up a much wider story. But the most impor - tant evidence was found in U.S. Army and Air Force records held at sev - eral locations in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and Alabama. This set of books contains the results of Mr. Lawrence's search through some 27,000 pages of military microfilm images for reports that discuss the car - riage of mail. Some of these pages were obtained through his Freedom of Information request. The documents demonstrate clearly that the Post Office Depart - ment in December 1941 redefined, at the request of the U.S. military, the FAM-22 mail transport authorizations to include all of Africa, the Middle East and Asia through to Singapore. Other tabular documents list the amounts of cargo, passengers and mail the Army ATC (Air Transport Command) and its several contractors carried throughout Africa, city by city, during the war. The contractors included Pan American, Eastern, American, TWA and several others. The listings show how much mail was carried by ATC and the contractors and how much was transferred Now as a Brit, I know all about the objections of the United from and to BOAC. Much of the ATC transport before May 1943 was car - States and Pan American Airways to the trans-Atlantic mail censorship ried by the massive network of land-based aircraft and after May 1943, at Bermuda, but let’s investigate this cover a little further. Note that the when the Boeing 314 shuttle ended, all of it was. Numerous other related sender’s business name is given as “H. S.-Sch. & Co.” and they are locat - subjects are discussed in these findings. Maps of ATC mail routes rede - ed in Basel. A little digging reveals that this is the acronym for a Swiss fine the scope of the U.S. Army ATC operations. bank called “Hans Seligman-Schürch & Company” and further digging These pages redefine what we know about transportation during shows that, at least during World War II, they had a somewhat shady World War II. It is an indispensable reference for war historians and phi - reputation. A memorandum from the U.S. Legation in Bern dated Octo - latelists. ber 28, 1942 addressed to the Secretary of State in Washington is headed:

PAGE 164 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2015 PAGE 165 amount in pounds at a rate of $4.40 to one pound sterling could be credited in England. The letter naively, or stupidly, suggests that since transfer to the Ger - mans is not required until the end of the war, it is certain that the original donors would be able to recover the money deposited by them. Needless to say, my British colleague has ignored this proposal as “pre - posterous” and has filed the letter only for information purposes.” And you thought that the Swiss were neutral? The more I learn through the study of postal history, the more cynical I become. This is rather like the quote from The Godfather: “Nothing personal; just busi - ness” which is fine so long as you are not someone needing to escape from the Nazis and placing your trust in a “neutral” country. I’m rather proud of the British censors in Bermuda.

AAMS Chapters The following local, regional and national organizations are Chapters of the American Air Mail Society. To enjoy the hobby of aerophilately, the AAMS recommends that collectors contact these groups about programs and meetings, as well as information “Ransom Procedure as now practiced by the German Govern - about bulletins, services and dues. ment” and contains the following: Canadian Aerophilatelic Society Leonard (Len) Lukens My British colleague has brought to my attention an astonishing com - Steve Johnson 4601 South Pacific Highway, #2 munication which the British Consulate General at Basel has received under 787 Wharncliffe Road S Phoenix OR 97535 date of October 14, 1942, from Messrs. Hans Seligman-Schürch and Company, London, ON N6J 2N8 CANADA [email protected] bankers at Basel. This company is listed in the Proclaimed List. Rocky Mountain Aerophilatelic Club William E. Crabbs, secretary The letter states that a gentleman has arrived in Switzerland from Hol - Metropolitan Air Post Society Ernest Wheeler P.O. Box 620695 land who has proposed, with German approval, that 250 Jews now in Holland be 7 Evelyn Terrace Littleton CO 80162-0695 permitted to leave Holland for overseas destinations against a payment of Wayne NJ 07470-3446 [email protected] 5,000,000 Swiss Francs. The contract must be assured by a Swiss bank and pay - [email protected] ment is due when the 250 hostages involved have reported to the Swiss Con - Northwest Chapter - AAMS sulate in Lisbon. One of the provisions of the proposal is that the 5,000,000 Southern California Air Mail Society Swiss Francs shall remain on deposit in Switzerland until the end of the war. c/o President Bill Keesling The letter goes on to suggest that, for practical purposes, it is clear that 14723 Burbank Blvd. Van Nuys CA 91411-3336 such sums of money can only be obtained from relatives of the emigrants who, for the most part, reside in the United States. The writer admits that it is now a practical impossibility to transfer money from the United States for such pur - poses and therefore proposes a means whereby the American control might be Changes or corrections? circumvented. He suggests that the sum in question be deposited to the bank’s Please send all corrections, additions or changes to: account either in the United States or in England, and that an equivalent of the [email protected]

PAGE 166 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2015 PAGE 167 Question News of the Shows Central Sarasota National Stamp Exhibition February 6-8, 2015 Sarasota, Florida There have always Jbueesnt a firomra iFl uconlle? ctors in Germany interested in U.S. inland and foreign first flight covers. To get U.S. covers collectors Gold Iris Adair needed a friend in the United States to buy them. The money restrictions Ryukyu Islands 1951-1958 B-Yen “Heavenly Maiden” of the Third Reich prohibited paying for FFCs with German funds. Airmail Series Also: APC Award, U.S. Possessions Award Santiago Cruz SCADTA First Issues APS Excellence 1900-1940, Airmail Poster James W. Graue German North Atlantic Catapult Airmail 1929-1935 AAMS Award, Lighthouse Stamp Society Award Robert Hisey Rise and Fall of French African Air Rates During World War II

Vermeil Derrick Pillage The French Connection

APS AmeriStamp Expo 2015 February 13-15, 2015 Riverside, California I have collected airmail between the U.S. and Germany for a long Single Frame Prix d’Honneur Alfredo Frohlich time and was very pleased when I found this cover in a dealers box. It is SCADTA Airmail Stamps for Ecuador Cheryl R. Ganz Hindenburg a FFC FAM 19 from San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand and on to Zeppelin LZ-129 On-Board Postmarks James W. Graue Germany. The friend of the collector was a real friend, because he paid DLH South Atlantic 1934-1939: Crashes and not only 20¢ for the trans-Pacific flight but another 30¢ for the trans- Recovered Airmail Allen Klein Shenandoah Atlantic flight to Lisbon and Berlin. Mail Flown on USS Don David Price The cover’s journey began on July 12, 1940, in San Francisco, “The Jenny” – Evolution of the First U.S. Jeff Ward flew the 6,524 miles to Auckland, arriving July 18, and returned to San Cayenne Airmails of French Guiana Francisco by ship. From San Francisco it was flown to New York (2,548 miles), on to Lisbon (3,355 miles) and then to Berlin (1,429 miles), arriv - Most Popular Prix d’Honneur Don David Price ing on September 21, 1940, after a journey of 70 days and 20,380 miles. It “The Jenny” – Evolution of the First U.S. Airmail Stamp crossed three oceans and two continents just for philatelic fun in wartime. My question: is this a trans-ocean record cover? Single Frame Reserve Grand Award Cheryl R. Ganz Rainer Lütgens U.S. 50¢ Zeppelin Issue: A Study in Design

PAGE 168 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2015 PAGE 169 Single Frame Gold Thanks! Cheryl R. Ganz Quest by Airship: The Wellman – Vainman Expeditions A sincere thank you to Jamie O’Bannon, John Wil - James W. Graue Sending German Airmail on Zeppelin South America son, Harlan Radford Jr., Don Lussky and William Kriebel Flights 1930-1937 for answering the call for articles published in the February Also: GPS Gold 2015 Airpost Journal. James D. Hill Graf Zeppelin Iceland Flight Also: GPS Silver, AAPE Novice Award I appreciate your help. — VCP Robert B. Morgan Airmail During Hungary’s Hyperinflation, May-July 1946 Airpost Journal Single Frame Vermeil David Y. Lu Procedures and Deadline Shanghai-Manchouli Flight by Eurasia Aviation Corporation, April-June 1931 Deadline Stephen L. Suffet Deadline for the receipt of articles, letters, advertising and news is Usages of the U.S. 4¢ Airmail Postal Card of 1949 the first of the month preceding the month of publication. For example, we need everything for the November issue by October 1, everything for the Single Frame Silver Paul B. Goodwin December issue by November 1, everything for the January issue by Decem - “To Buy Planes for the Fatherland” - Argentina’s 1912 ber 1 and so on. Semi-Official Stamp and Associated Postcards Robert D. Rawlins The preferred method of receiving copy is via an email attachment. U.S. Navy Regulus Missile Program and Its Please send as an MS Word document. We also welcome compact disks Missile Mail (CDs). Hard copy is acceptable but it must be rekeyed so we prefer electron - ic transmission. All submissions are subject to editing for length, clarity and con - tent. Every effort will be made to retain the facts without changing the Please support the meaning or thrust of the article.

Illustrations Airpost Journal Advertisers. The most effective way to transmit illustrations is electronically. They should be TIF or JPEG, scanned at no less than 150 dpi and attached to an email. They can also be sent on CD. We can also retrieve copy and illus - trations from electronic storage if provided with the correct routing. Questions can be directed to editor Vickie Canfield Peters by emailing vcanfi[email protected] or by writing to her at 11911 E. Connor Road, Valleyford WA 99036. The telephone number is 509-924-4484. Your attention to and compliance with these procedures and dead - line assures the best quality we can achieve. Thank you for your support of, and contributions to, the Airpost Journal.

PAGE 170 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2015 PAGE 171 AAMS Membership Report February 2015 Submitted by Membership Secretary Judi Washington New Members 12284 Zeb Vance, Mount Dora FL. GF, Flying Post Office 12285 John Seidl, Marietta GA. AM, EL 12286 Bob Wagner, Newark DE. Historical Air Covers, Z, CL 12287 Steve Swain, Roswell GA. AM, NAW, Z 12288 Walter J. Weiss, Essex MD. CAM, FAM, AE 12289 Bernie C. Smith, Winnipeg MB, Canada. CF, Airmail 1D, FAM

Reinstatements 09813 Frederick Frelinghuysen 10075 Pradip Jain 11626 David A. Lamantia 11866 Ulrich Felzmann

Deceased 06523 William R. Ware III

Lapsed 10179 A. Assereto 10951 Alan R. Davis 11449 Olafur Eliasson 11659 Albertine A. D'Amours 11813 Leo Vrzal 11883 Jerry Cole 11913 Jonathan Becker 11934 Wayne Youngblood 12102 Robert Vary

— Summary — Total Membership — January 2015 ...... 896 New Members ...... 6 Reinstatements ...... 4 Deceased ...... -1 Lapsed ...... - 9 Total Membership — February 2015 ...... 896

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Membership and Subscriptions Air Mail Society Annual membership dues for new members, which includes a subscrip - tion to the is $30 domestic, $40 Canada, $50 Mexico and Dedicated to the research, study, documentation and Airpost Journal $60 worldwide. preservation of aerophilately worldwide through education, study, research and services. All foreign dues include first-class airmail shipment. Organized in 1923, Incorporated in 1944 as a non-profit corporation of Publication the state of Ohio Monthly Official Publication: Airpost Journal IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit organization APS affiliate #77 Vickie Canfield Peters, 11911 E. Connor Road, Editor and Advertising: Jim Graue, 11911 East Connor Road, Valleyford WA 99036 Valleyford WA 99036 ([email protected]) PRESIDENT: ([email protected]) Publications Committee David E. Crotty, Ph.D., PO Box 16115, Ludlow KY Jim Graue, 11911 East Connor Road, Valleyford WA 99036 VICE PRESIDENT: Chairman: 41016-0115 ([email protected] ) ([email protected]) Dr. Robert Dille, 335 Merkle Drive, Norman OK 73069- SECRETARY: 6429 ([email protected]) Member Services Stephen Reinhard, P.O. Box 110, Mineola NY 11501 TREASURER: Don Lussky, 1332 N. Webster St., Naperville IL 60563 ([email protected]) Auction Manager: Mark Banchik, P.O. Box 2125, Great Greg Schmidt, 1978 Fox Burrow Court, IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT: Publications Sales Manager: Neck NY 11022 ([email protected]) Neenah WI 54956 ([email protected])

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