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March 2015 Volume 86, No. 3 Whole No. 1017

March’s Featured Article — You Can’t Get There from Here Great Britain to China 1942 Page 95 Zeppelins & Aerophilately Ask for our Free Price List of Worldwide Flight covers and stamps. The following is a small sampling – full list on Website!

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MARCH 2015 PAGE 89 In This Issue of the Airpost Journal — ARTICLES — Letters to You Can’t Get There From Here: Great Britain to China in 1942 ...... 95 Bob Wilscek Pan Am Across Africa . . . in 1925? ...... 102 the Editor John Wilson MAA Tests the Airmail ...... 119 Another Example of an Airmail Label Steven J. Turechek I am relatively new to AAMS, but I have been collecting airmail OIF and OEF Military Mail ...... 123 labels, with the Postal Label Study Group, since about 1993. My eye is David Ball always open for a new AML. — NEWS— Membership Secretary Looking for ‘Lost’ Members ...... 101 American Air Mail Catalog News and Updates ...... 108

— COLUMNS and FEATURES — Airmail Elsewhere in Print ...... 106 Canadian Air Mail Notes ...... 112 Letters to the Editor ...... 91 President’s Message ...... 93 News of the Shows ...... 126

— DEPARTMENTS – APJ Ads ...... 132 Membership Report ...... 131 When I saw the question from Bob Baltzell (October 2014 ), I APJ knew that I had seen that airmail label on page 417 somewhere else. Sure enough, I found it. I never expected to see another one, because it looked to be one-of-a-kind and I thought it was probably homemade. Not only was the label the same, it was also sent to Jim's Pet Shop. Editor and Advertising Darus Greathouse Vickie Canfield Peters 11911 E Connor Road Valleyford WA 99036 vcanfi[email protected] Cherry Hill, New Jersey Staff Writers and Columnists Joe Kirker Alan Warren The Purpose of a Society Chris Hargreaves Bob Wilcsek Lee Downer From recent letters in the it would seem that Copyright 2015 The American Air Mail Society . The Airpost Journal (ISSN 0739-0939) is pub - Airpost Journal lished monthly by the American Air Mail Society, 11911 E. Connor Road, Valleyford WA 99036. opinions are divided as to the purpose and function of the American Air Periodical postage paid at Spokane WA 99201 and additional post offices. Postmaster: Send Mail Society. On one hand we have those who consider it to be a Society address changes to American Air Mail Society, 1190 S. Grape St., Denver CO 80246-3229. for American Air Mails, and on the other hand those who see a wider Domestic subscription rate $30 per year; $5 per copy. Opinions expressed in features and columns in this publication are solely those of the authors and definition as an American Society for the study of Air Mail; in other do not necessarily represent those of the society. Running an ad does not endorse the advertiser. words, the study of the development of airmail services worldwide.

PAGE 90 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2015 PAGE 91 Peter Lister in his letter ( January 2015, page 4) expresses the APJ view as seen from outside America and, since I am a member of the British Air Mail Society, I have to agree entirely with his opinions. One President’s cannot collect and study the development of airmail services without Jim Graue Message taking the picture in the round, and my own fascination with the wartime services of Pan American Airways inevitably leads to a study of how, when and by what route mail was carried beyond the Continental AAMS Election Year United States. Whilst I appreciate that there are collectors who wish to restrict ~ Call for Nominations ~ their interest to the study of “FAM” and “CAM,” there are thousands Pursuant to the AAMS Bylaws, nominations are hereby called for the more who want to explore the wider aerophilatelic commentary on social 2015 AAMS election of officers and directors for the 2016–2017 term. and historical events around the world. Unraveling the often difficult The AAMS President will form a Nominations Committee to cre - puzzles that (particularly wartime) covers present is a stimulating pas - ate a slate of candidates. Additional candidates may be nominated by time. The members of AAMS are fortunate to have an editorial policy petition. that manages to balance the needs of both types of collector and an edi - tor who skillfully keeps that balance. 2015 Election Calendar The evidence from this side of the Atlantic is that societies February Call for Nominations formed for the study of postal history are thriving, whilst those devoted Nominations Committee formed to “pretty picture” collecting are declining. We live at a time when peo - March 15 Nominations by Nominations Committee closed ple are inquisitive about how we reached where we are today, and the 22 AAMS Board approval of nominations study of airmail services and their development is part of that quest. By 31 Nominations (by Committee/Board) final all means record the “pretty picture” first flight covers, but more often than not it is the travel-worn covers with strange transit and censor May 1 Nominations published in May 2015 Airpost Journal markings that really reflect history in the making. Call for Additional Nominations by Petition pub- John Wilson lished July 1 Nominations by Petition close Airpost Journal Advertising Rates August 1 Final election slate published Size B&W Rate Color Rate Contract Rate* September September 2015 : Election issue with Quarter Page $40 $55 Rate less 10% Airpost Journal Half Page $65 $100 Rate less 10% ballot Full Page $110 $160 Rate less 10% October 20 Deadline for receipt of election ballots Two-Page $220 $320 Rate less 10% November 1 Final election results due from Board of Elections Page 1 $120 $170 Rate less 10% December Election results published in December 2015 Inside Cover $120 $170 Rate less 10% APJ Outside Cover $140 $190 Rate less 10% Any AAMS member wishing to be considered for an AAMS *The 10% contract rate discount is allowed for advertisers who have officer or director position should contact Alfredo Frohlich either already appeared in 12 consecutive issues of the ([email protected]), chairman of the Nominations Commit - Airpost Journal or for those who contract for at least a year. tee, by March 14.

PAGE 92 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2015 PAGE 93 2015 AAMAnSn uCalo AnAvMeSn ctoinovnen taiotn N foAr 2P01E5 X You Can’t Get There From Here What June 5-7, 2015 When Great Britain to China in 1942 McLean, Virginia (near Washington, D.C.) Where Hilton McLean Tysons Corner Site 7920 Jones Branch Drive, McLean VA 22102 Bob Wilcsek 703-7612-5111 Delivering mail — any mail — by surface or air to and from free Dulles International (IAD) is closest. Airport (western) China in 1942 was a composite task. Several articles have appeared on the subject in recent years [1,2], but these dealt with out - bound mail from China. The Japanese occupied eastern China in the late Exhibitor’s Prospectus and Entry Form 1930s. After the beginning of the Pacific war in December 1941, no open Available now via link from AAMS Website (americanairmail - seaports existed anywhere on the long Chinese coast. Overland transport society.org). Exhibitors are urged to submit their entry form(s) as soon as became challenging, as the only land route went through Burma, another possible. Japanese-occupied conquest in 1942. So, how was mail delivered to/from the free western Chinese provinces? While some sketchy services were attempted with Russian Future AAMS Meeting Sites aid heading directly west through what is now Kazakhstan, these fragile NAPEX services did not last long and did not carry enough mail to make a differ - McLean, Virginia June 5-7, 2015 2016 World Exhibition* New York, New York May 28 - June 4, 2016 CHICAGOPEX Itasca, Illinois November 19-21, 2016 Philatelic Show Boxborough, Massachusetts May 5 - 7, 2017 Figure 1 US to China posted NY September, 23 1942; receiving stamp St. Lous Stamp Expo (under stamps) of Kukong, November 6, 1942 and manuscript receiv - St. Louis, Missouri ing endorsement on front of cover November 7, 1942 indicating about 44 days in transit. Censor number is in Miami. No markings of any March 30 - April 1, 2018 kind on reverse. This mail was carried by the ATC in segments, in •Major exhibition but not an AAMS convention sealed bags, all the way from Miami to destination.

PAGE 94 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2015 PAGE 95 Notably, the eastern terminus of this route was Calcutta, a British colony. A British postal bulletin dated May 27, 1942, lists a rate of 1/6 from Eng - land to China (1 shilling, 6 pence; the same rate continuously used since inauguration of the service in April 1936), but the actual route described for this rate ends at Calcutta: “By sea to , then by the Empire Air Services.” Implicit is the fact that the Empire Air Service terminated at Calcutta and the postal bulletin states no means of transit from Calcut - ta to China for this fee.

Figure 2 Posted May 26, 1942; flimsy folded back ence, considering the needed capacity. The few known items from this service are outbound from China. This left two primary routes (1). The largest by volume of mail carried was a CNAC (China National Aviation Corporation, 45 percent ownership by Pan American Airways) air route over the Himalayas between Chungking and Calcutta. It provided irregular but consistent service throughout the war (2). When air service was either unavailable or unaffordable, a modest amount of mail was carried through Burma by Figure 3 surface until Burma fell to the Japanese in April 1942 (3). It is assumed Posted May 29, 1942. Note unlinked portion of postmark that some Chinese overseas surface mail posted after April 1942 was car - Given this background, two covers (figures 2 and 3) from the ried by CNAC to Calcutta, either as a courtesy or by some as yet undis - same correspondence show an attempted remedy. Posted from London covered concessionary arrangement. This seems to be the case for on May 26 and 29, 1942 both are franked at the intra-empire rate of 1/3. inbound mail as well (Figure 1), when first carried by American air ser - Most interestingly, however, both covers have regular-issue Chinese vices (Pan Am) to Calcutta. franking on the reverse in the amount of $2.25, the known (4,5) CNAC Britain had its own air service to Asia (Empire Air Service), fre - rate per 5 grams for the flight “over the hump” (Figure 4). This Chinese quently called the “Horseshoe Route” due to its appearance on a map. franking is canceled August 1, 1942, on both covers, presumably the date This was surface transport between Britain and Durban, South Africa, they arrived at a Chinese postal facility for forwarding, thus about 64 and an air link between Durban, Cairo and Calcutta in British India. days in transit to that point.

PAGE 96 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2015 PAGE 97 Figure 5 Cover 1 with flimsy extended attached or bear the Chinese handstamp used to show the postage due for air service from Calcutta. It appears that these may be discovery items: covers with the attached flimsy bearing its (rather incomplete) explanation of this service. It is likely that the flimsies were attached in London at the time Figure 4 of posting. Although a partial postmark on the May 29 cover invites a Reverse of Figure 1. Postmark Chungking August 1, 1942. look for its remainder on the flimsy acting as a mask, it is absent. Never - Note 8 gram weight and $4.50 rate calculation. theless, if the flimsy was not applied in London, how was a postal clerk Until now, the $2.25 rate has only been seen applied to outbound in Calcutta to know that it was to be forwarded as postage due? Chinese mail. This was, of course, paid with all-Chinese franking when The only two covers seen an attached flimsy, posted without posted. The May 26 cover is a CNAC double-weight item (6-10 grams), March 25 and April 29, 1942, arrived at their destinations still using Chi - requisitely franked with $4.50 with Chinese stamps on the reverse. It also nese franking as postage due, but were franked at the 1/6 rate. This rais - bears a Chinese handstamp showing the double weight calculation. es the possibility that the flimsies were used as internal routing instruc - Most notably, a printed notice on a “flimsy” is still attached to tions on items franked at 1/3 (British colony mail), while the 1/6 rate each of these two covers (Figure 5), reading: implied the same forwarding simply due to the franking. If so, why would anyone pay an extra 3d? Postage due was required in both cases. Air mail surtax on this article has been prepaid as far as Calcutta only. In Neither the parties to the “tentative arrangements” referenced order to avoid delay owing to present conditions of surface transport, tentative on the flimsy nor the terms of such “arrangements” is made or alluded to arrangements have been made with the Indian Postal Administration for further in the above-cited British postal bulletin of May 27, 1942, that shows a transmission of such articles to Kunming or Chungking by air, against a sur - 1/6 rate to China, but without any indication of route. charge of $2.25 for each 5 grammes, to be collected from the addressee on deliv - It appears that as many as four parties could or would be ery. Continuation of this arrangement depends upon public support. Very few other covers posted from England to China in early involved: 1942 have been noted with the $2.25/5 grams CNAC rate applied in Chi - (1) CNAC, which carried the unfranked (for its service) mail from Cal - nese franking as postage due on the reverse. None have such a flimsy cutta as postage-due items. (2) Chinese Post Office, which allowed the mail to be delivered as

PAGE 98 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2015 PAGE 99 postage due, with no franking or even endorsement applied, and which Reference DEFE 1/222). Prepared by M.C. Raymond, Lt. Col., Chief Cen - used regular issue stamps to pay postage due fees. sor, Burma, on 15 June 1942. (3) India Post Office, which took the initiative to forward these items 4. Sieh, Pingwen and Blackburn, J. Lewis, “Postal-Rate History of without franking or routing instructions. China; Part 5. International Airmail Postal Rates of China 1920-1947,” The (4) British postal authorities, probably the creators of this “service” as , Vol. 36, No.6, September 1972. See footnote BG, P.146, for China Clipper a matter of need. Blackburn’s somewhat puzzling explanation of the $2.25 rate in Table 22. How long this arrangement lasted is anyone’s guess, but the 5. Sieh, Pingwen and Blackburn, J. Lewis, “Postal Rate History of only items seen by this author (five total) were all posted in late March to China, International Airmail Postal Rates and Routes during the War May 1942. It appears the “arrangement” was of short duration. It may Years, 1939-1945: A Supplement,” , Vol. 43, No.3, Whole The China Clipper have been nothing more than a temporary, informal agreement between number 237, March 1979, Pp.98-100. CNAC and British postal authorities. This treatment has not been seen on any inbound mail to China other than British dispatches. While apparently only a temporary procedure, it provides an answer to a previ - Membership Secretary Looking for ously unresolved question regarding British mail to China. American mail to China at this time went at the prevailing 70 ‘Lost’ Members cents base rate without special instructions or postage due, indicating New membership secretary Judi Washington has reviewed the that it was carried in sealed bags all the way from the U.S. This American membership list and does not have a current address for several life mail was carried by ATC (Air Transport Command), the military trans - members. Anyone with information concerning these members is asked portation arm of the U.S. Army Air Force, not BOAC. Pan American was to email Judi at [email protected]. the primary contract carrier for this service in Asia, flying aircraft owned Your assistance is appreciated. by the American government in enormous numbers between Calcutta and Kunming in 1942 to sustain the American military presence in west - Arnell, Walter J. Likins, Floyd L., Jr. ern China at the time (see “Operation Matterhorn”). Bengtsson, Ingemar Lucier, Joseph F. Berman Charles S. Martin, Robert J. Acknowledgments Carter, Arthur A., Jr. Reed, Joseph M., Jr. Many thanks to Duncan Crewe for providing the postal bulletins Dale, Dr. Alfred S., Jr. Rocklin, Edwin G. used in this work and Jim Graue, Richard Beith and John Wilson for nec - Dekker, Kase Rosenbrand, Theodore essary peer review. Flint, Walter H. Shiomi, Masao Gold, Harvey S. Venskus, John J. References 1. Wilcsek, Bob, “CNAC Inaugural Covers ‘Over the Hump,’” Jeser, Carl Ware, William R., III July 2010. Kaplan, Richard S. Weinberg, Kenneth W. Airpost Journal, 2. Wilcsek, Bob, “External Mail from Unoccupied China; 1942- 1945,” , August 2013. Also, of extreme importance is a Airpost Journal follow-up Letter to the Editor in the December 2013 Airpost Journal, “Wilcsek Offers Clarification,” p.487, which clarifies certain issues in the Want to buy, trade or sell? parent article. 3. Official History of British Censorship: H.B.M’s Home Office, Take advantage of the classifieds History of the Postal and Telegraph Censorship Department 1938-1946 Vol. 1 Appendix 32. Reference: paragraph 1172, “Notes on the Clos - ads featured monthly in the APJ and Vol. 2, ing Stages of the Burma Censorship,” April 1942). (Public Records Office

PAGE 100 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2015 PAGE 101 Pan Am Across Africa . . . in 1925?

John Wilson With the current interest in, and controversy about, wartime air - mail carriage across Africa from the west coast all the way to the Middle East and beyond, it is perhaps worth looking back to the pioneering work by the British in establishing the route that later became the lifeline for military men and materiel in World War II. The British was the pioneer for many of the routes that later became major air - ways. This was the case in 1925 when a flight of three De Havilland DH- 9a biplanes of 47 Squadron took off from Helwan (near Cairo) on Octo - ber 27 for the long trip across the Sahara to northern Nigeria.

With an average flying speed of 83 mph, the 3,000-mile journey was completed in six days with a flying time of just over 36 hours. After resting awhile, the trip continued south to Kaduna on November 6, returning to Kano to prepare for the journey back to Cairo. The plane left Kano on November 12, arriving back at Helwan on the 19th. The flights were not without incident as described in a biogra - phy of squadron leader and flight commander Arthur Coningham [1], but from an aerophilatelic stance the most important fact is that Coning - DH-9a over the desert ham carried a 65 covers from Cairo to Kano and 85 on the return flight. Their route took them south from Cairo via Wadi Halfa to Khar - All appear to have been addressed to Brigadier-General Ridgway in Lon - toum then to El Obeid and El Fasher in Sudan, on to Abecher and Fort don and all were initialed by Coningham (AC) in the lower left corner. Lamy in French Equatorial Africa and Maiduguri in northern Nigeria to The Cairo-to-Kano covers had Nigerian stamps applied and their destination at Kano. All these names were well known to the pilots were then sent on to London using the railway to Lagos and ship to Liv - and crews of BOAC and Pan American (Africa) who eventually flew the erpool. The Kano-to-Cairo covers had Egyptian stamps applied and then same route during World War II. went by surface to London. However, the postage was not deemed suffi -

PAGE 102 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2015 PAGE 103 tary necessity and the arrival of Pan American energy into the equation transformed the route from Lagos to the Middle East into a fast-flowing airway carrying huge amounts of cargo, mail and passengers. It was Arthur Coningham who opened the possibilities of the route and we should be glad that some philatelic record exists of that achievement. Coningham rose to the rank of Air Marshal (three-star general) and commanded the Desert Air Force in North Africa during World War 2, developing air combat tactics that led to Rommel declaring that he was “pinned in place” by Coningham’s air attacks [1]. These tactics were adopted by the U.S. Air Force and published in 1943 as Field Manual 100-20 “Command and Employment of Air Power.” Sadly, Arthur Con - ingham was lost when a flight from Lisbon to Bermuda vanished with - out trace in January 1948. This story has some significance for me because I also served with 47 Squadron Royal Air Force, but in 1957, not 1925, operating Bev - erley transports rather than DH-9a biplanes. I later lived and worked in Nigeria, so the links are very strong and perhaps explain my abiding interest in West African and trans-Atlantic airmail. The biography of Arthur Coningham, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, DFC, AFC is included on a two-disc compilation available from BACM Research (www.paperlessarchives.com) which also contains the entire seven-volume by Craven and Cate. The Army Air Forces in World War II Ironically, I heard that photocopies of a few pages from this work, together with other documents, were being hawked around at the recent aero symposium at a “bargain price” of $800. The two-disk set from BACM including the 6,300 pages of the “The Army Air Forces” costs a modest $15 and is highly recommended.

Reference: [1] Orange, Vincent, (Methuen, London 1990. ISBN 0-413- Coningham, 14580-8)

cient and these covers all attracted an underpaid charge. Introduce a friend Despite this flight and the fact that the French had opened an air to the wonderful world of service between Toulouse and Dakar, Senegal, in June 1925, the trans- Sahara route from Khartoum to Kano was not opened to regular traffic until February 1936. The service was extended to Lagos in October of the Aerophilately . . . same year. Things changed dramatically in December 1941 when mili - Give a membership

PAGE 104 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2015 PAGE 105 latelic mail was sent without enclosures and unsealed with the flap tucked in. Commercial mail was subject to censorship. Several covers from December 1941 are shown. Airmail Elsewhere in Print H. James Maxwell describes special rates from China to Hong Kong and Macau during the period 1936 to 1949 in the January Alan Warren China In addition to showing some covers, he provides tables of rates Clipper. In issue 7/2014 of Knut Arveng pre - for domestic and international service including airmail surcharges, as Norsk Filatelistisk Tidsskrift, sents a profile of author, aviator and explorer Tryggve Gran. He served well as other service fees for registry, express and acknowledgement of on the ski patrol of Scott’s fateful trek to the South Pole. Gran then stud - receipt. ied flying at Bleriot’s school and worked with Britain’s RAF during The same issue of reprints a brochure apparently China Clipper World War I. Later he lectured on aviation and polar exploration and published in 1973 by S. P. Wang, Director General of Posts of the Repub - wrote several books. lic of China. The publication offers an overview of the history of Chinese Ken Lawrence points out that American Airlines was a contract airmail stamps and airmail service from the 1920s up to 1971 and was carrier for the United States Army Air Force’s Air Transport Command printed to mark the 50th anniversary of the American Air Mail Society at during World War II in the December 2014 The the National Philatelic Exhibition of Washington in September 1973. United States Specialist. service did not use numbered FAM routes but was in effect 1941-1944 The prolific Ken Lawrence presents a detailed story of the and seems to have carried only military mail. Ken located an unpub - famous rarities, the black and the red Honduras airmail stamps, in the lished report in the files of the Air Force Historical Research Agency at January 19 To begin with, the stamps are actually dull Linn’s Stamp News. Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama that details this little-known service. blue and bright blue. It is the AERO CORREO overprints that are in Rob Holley focuses on disaster mail of Malaya in the January black ink and red ink, respectively. The author retells the establishment issue of . He covers three categories, i.e. mail to of airmail service in Honduras as well as the early stamps including Gibbons Stamp Monthly and from Malaya that was salvaged from accidents as well as mail sal - these rare overprinted issues. At one time there was more than one copy vaged in Malaya. The only marine accident with salvaged mail is the of the black Honduras: the Ustariz single, the Membreno pair and the grounding of the in 1918. Crash airmail begins with the Robinette single. Only the last one survives today and is owned by Mys - Andre Lebon Imperial Airways experimental flight of 1931, followed by other disasters tic Stamp Company. in 1931 at Bangkok (KLM Mark VII Fokker), 1936 in Crete (IA Short S. 17 Anthony Fandino recounts the story of two flyers in the Febru - flying boat), 1937 at Brindisi (IA Short S. 23 C), the in 1939 near ary served in the Australian Flying Corps Centurion U.S. Stamp News. Calcutta, the BOAC Comet in 1953 near Calcutta, and several more from and then the RAF in the 1920s. He hoped to fly from England to Aus - 1954. The author admits the listing is not exhaustive but merely reflects tralia but had trouble raising the needed funds. He then met Jessie items in his own collection. “Chubbie” Miller who not only furnished additional funds but also In the January Ken Lawrence discusses wanted to join him in the record-making flight. The pair left London in United States Specialist, FAM 26 with flights from Fort Worth and El Paso to Mexico City. He dis - October 1927 in an Avian named destined for Darwin, Red Rose, covered that the Post Office Department order of September 5, 1942 des - . ignated this routing as FAM 25. Three days later it was changed to FAM Bad weather, mechanical problems and a crash landing off 26. The original FAM 25 was later assigned to a Flying Tiger Line route Indonesia extended their effort to five months, during which Bert Hin - from San Francisco to Tokyo via Seattle. A number of FAM 26 covers are kler succeeded in setting the record. Bill and Chubbie fell in love and illustrated. headed to America where she set speed records. A writer, Hayden Lawrence begins a series on FAM 22 inaugural flight covers in Clarke, began to ghost-write Chubbie’s adventures but also created a the January . He reviews Pan Am’s applications to the love triangle. One day Clarke was found dead from a gunshot, but Lan - American Philatelist Civil Aeronautics Board for trans-Africa and trans-Atlantic service. Phi - caster was found not guilty.

PAGE 106 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2015 PAGE 107 coordinated with the Australia Airmail Catalog for consistency in list - ings, information, and pricing.

American Air Mail Catalog Patrick A. Walters, Joe Kirker • U.S. Government Flights News and Updates Text rekeyed and revised. Should be completed in 2015. Here is the status of some of the 7th Edition sections: Jamie O’Bannon • Alan Lieberman • U. S. Pioneers CAM Section revision nearing completion; should be ready mid-2015. The remainder of the CAMs is well along. Alan has broken this into three parts, the first of which will become a part of Volume 3 Color Scans Chris Hargreaves The primary challenge is the acquisition of new high-resolution • & Newfoundland We anticipate that our colleagues in Canada will have their new color scans. This is an especially great concern for the Trans-Ocean Sec - Canada volume ready for final preparation this year. tions, a popular area of great importance that was last done in the 5th Edition, and the new combined Crash Mail. Once we get scans rounded Tom Russell • Canal Zone up in sufficient number, we will be only three to six months from pro - This section has been revised and is ready to go into the next duction for most sections, as the listings are virtually complete. multi-section volume. This will be easy for some sections (instances where we know Jim Graue, Kendall Sanford who holds a comprehensive collection) but more challenging for others • Crash Mail Major changes planned. U.S. section has been rekeyed. Rights to (where we do not presently know those holding the key material), but Nierinck have been acquired. All crash mail will be merged together to our members surely should be able to fill these gaps. yield two volumes with world-wide coverage. Major hurdle is color Repeated appeals to the membership for scans of their listed scans. McCarty Collection scanning is in progress. items have gone unanswered and is becoming a major concern. Surely virtually every listed item is in the hands of some member, but if we can - Simine Short • Glider Flights not get a simple color scan, it will seriously handicap our progress. Section is ready for final pre-press. Susan Whitehead • Lindbergh Deleted Sections Section revision is under way. Section content will be original No new or updated sections will be prepared to compete with Lindbergh material. It will not include commemorative material. other catalogs that have gained world-wide acceptance. Examples: • Hal Vogel, David Ball, David Larson • Zeppelin Flights Polar Aerophilately Refer to or volumes for German Zeppelins. This will be ready for printing by mid-2015. It was delayed by a pro - Sieger Michel Cheryl Ganz is independently preparing a new catalogue for the longed peer review and indexing, but with the new year it should get the U.S. dirigible airships (including the LZ-126 which became the attention needed for crossing the finish line. Los Ange - ). les Jim Graue • • Trans-Ocean German North Atlantic Catapult Airmail Flights Listings have been divided geographically: North Atlantic, Refer to German North Atlantic Catapult Airmail Flights 1929-1935 South Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Ship-to-Shore, Around the World, Aus - by James W. Graue (2nd edition, 2014) tralia, Caribbean. Listings are essentially complete. Major hurdle is color • Australia scans. Refer to by Nelson Eustis and Tom Australian Air Mail Catalogue Tom Frommer is taking the TO Australia Section, which will be Frommer.

PAGE 108 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2015 PAGE 109 PAGE 110 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2015 PAGE 111 1928 on that CAM 2 route. Of course, as you can surmise I acquired the cover years ago because of the C1 and C2 US airmail franking. Could you possibly for - Canadian Air Mail Notes ward this to Mr. Hargreaves? Perhaps it might be of interest to him for his refer - ence. I think this is a lovely cover, and very interesting. It is clearly Chris Hargreaves “philatelic” as there is a late usage of both the C1 and C2 airmail stamps and a Victorian printed stationery envelope. It is overfranked at 3 cents Canadian + 22 cents U.S. when the correct rate was 2 cents Canadian + 10 cents U.S. The cover was signed by the postmaster in Victoria. The I havTe rhecaenivkeds sfoomre tvheery Cinoterrresetisnpg oconmdmeennctse i. n response to philatelic nature of the cover raises the question: if the cover was special - my previous columns. I am using this month’s column to share them ly signed by the postmaster in Victoria, why wasn’t it canceled with the with readers and to pass on some additional information. circular “VIA SEA PLANE” handstamp shown in Figure 2?

Figure 2 Figure 1 Canceled VICTORIA NOV 12 1925 [1] Postmarked VICTORIA B.C. 15 JUN 5 28 plus POSTMASTER’S OFFICE handstamp. U.S. stamps canceled SEATTLE WASH (no date). The late Jim Brown, who did extensive research into the Victoria Backstamped PHILLADELPHIA, PA JUN 9 12.30AM 1928 - Seattle air mail service, believed this VIA SEAPLANE handstamp was entirely legitimate. He once commented that, “A member of my stamp club, who has passed away, worked at the Victoria main post office and Air Mail to the United States from used the handstamp.”[2] However, I have only seen the handstamp on Roessler covers from 1925! If any reader has a cover with this handstamp addressed to The Vcoviecr tion Friigaur,e B1 isr ifrtoims Jhoe CKirokelru, amnd wbaisa forwarded to anybody other than A. C. Roe, and/or dated later than November 12, me by our editor, Vickie Canfield Peters, together with Joe’s email: APJ 1925, please send me a copy of it at [email protected] or via I really enjoyed reading Chris Hargreaves article on the First Canadian the . Airpost Journal Airmail Service and am sending along front and reverse sides of a cover flown in

PAGE 112 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2015 PAGE 113 Gulf Foolflo wSitn.g Lmay wDercemnbcere 2 0-1 N4 colurmthn, SI rhecoeirved Acoiprie sM of atwil o covers from Tom Reyman. The covers are shown as Figures 3 and 4 with comments from Tom.

Figure 4, above, and reverse, below

Figure 3 Postmarked WINNIPEG DEC 8 1927

This is a "first flight" cover that apparently did not make it to an air - plane but wound up being transported by dog sled. The “DELIVERED BY DOG TEAM” hand stamp shows that it took the long way to Seven Islands with a receiver date of January 17 (1928) on the front and another receiving stamp of January 31 on the back. So it appears that this cover was on the ground (snow) when the first flight was in the air on December 25. (T.R.)

The other cover is a Roessler cover to Shelter Bay dated January 31, 1928 from La Malbaie and was received at Shelter Bay on June 31, 1928. Was this a mis-application of the receiving mark, intended to be January 31, or is this another of Mr. Roessler's creations? (T.R.) Although the contract called for weekly round trips between Murray Bay (La Malbaie) and Seven Islands, there was a delay of some weeks after December 25/27 before the second trip took place. One rea - son for this, according to a history of the air mail service in Canada pub - lished by the post office in October 1928, was that: “The airplanes were equipped with both floats and skis in order to provide for any normal

PAGE 114 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2015 PAGE 115 La Malbaie, to Sept-Iles on January 31, 1928. The headline for that article was: BEL EXPLOIT D’AVIATEURS: DEUX AVIATEURS CANADIENS- FRANÇAIS PARCOURENT 550 MILES EN UNE JOURNÉE. VOYAGE DOUBLE DE LA MALBAIE AUX SEPT ILES. The article was also found by Pierre Vachon, who translated the headline as: A GREAT EXPLOIT BY AVIATORS. TWO FRENCH CANADIANS COVER 550 MILES IN ONE DAY RETURN TRIP BETWEEN LA MALBAIE AND SEVEN ISLANDS." [5]

Figure 5 A Fairchild FC-2W of Canadian Transcontinental Airways. contingencies, but during the Christmas season a most unusual thaw occurred which made it impossible for a time to operate with floats, skis or wheels.” [3] A photograph of an aircraft with the combined ski/float is shown in Figure 5. [4] This was the type of aircraft used for the North Shore air mail service. The combined ski/float gear was not successful, as the shock absorbers intended to take up the shock of landing on skis became frozen on takeoff and inoperative. [4] Figure 6 A second reason for the delay was that the company had to find Endorsed By air-mail La Malbaie to 7 Islands a new pilot; Charles Sutton resigned as soon as the first flight got back to Postmarked: QUEBEC JAN 14 1928 and LA MALBAIE 31 JAN Murray Bay on December 27. 28 Receiver stamps SEVEN ISLANDS JAN 31 28 and THUNDER The company hired Duke Schiller as a pilot and the second flight RIVER FE 7 28 [6] from Murray Bay to Seven Islands seems to have taken place on January 21, 1928. An article published in Quebec City’s dated Saturday, Some aerophilatelists also considered that the first same-day Le Soleil, February 4 (or Monday, February 6) 1928 carried the headline: SIX VOY - return trip between La Malbaie and Seven Islands would be “a great AGES EN AÉROPLANE. LES AVIATEURS DE LA POSTE ARIENNE exploit” and prepared souvenir covers in advance of the event. One of ONT ACCOMPLI CES RANDONNÉES EN 11 JOURS. TOTAL DE 4,000 these is shown in Figure 6. LIVRES DE MALLES. STATISTIQUES. This article was found by Pierre With regard to Tom’s covers, Figure 3 was not flown to Seven Vachon, who translated the headline as: SIX AEROPLANE TRIPS. THE Islands. Covers carried on the December 25, 1927 first flight were back - AERIAL POST AVIATORS HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THESE VOYAGES stamped in Seven Islands on December 26 and the receiver datestamp of IN ELEVEN DAYS. TOTAL OF 4,000 POUNDS OF MAIL. STATISTICS. January 17, 1928 shows that Figure 3 arrived in Seven Islands before the [5] second flight on January 21. The company also hired Roméo Vachon as a pilot. An article Dog teams took approximately three weeks to travel from La published by on February 3, 1928, related how Roméo Malbaie to Seven Islands, so the cover would have left La Malbaie on L’Action Catholique Vachon made the first same-day return flight from Lac Ste.-Agnès, near approximately December 27. It is therefore likely that the cover was in

PAGE 116 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2015 PAGE 117 Quebec in time for the flight, but for unknown reasons was not carried. After the cover missed the flight, it would have been consistent with post office practice to send the cover on as quickly as possible, not MAA Tests the Airmail to wait for the next flight. There are many covers similar to Figure 3, all from W.R. Patton. Steven J. Turechek, Maj, USAF (Retired) It is not known who applied the DELIVERED BY DOG TEAM hand - America declared war on Germany in April 1917. The European stamp or why no attempt ever seems to have been made to correct the powers had been at it for nearly three years. A sense of urgency to wrap statement “Via FIRST Air Mail from MURRAY BAY, P.Q.” up hostilities began to grip our government and industry leaders; even The cancellation on the back of Figure 3, “SEVEN ISLANDS mail transit time took on new importance. The airplane was thought by JAN 31 28,” is probably the date on which the cover left Seven Islands. If visionaries to hold great promise, but could it deliver? No one was sure, so, it seems that instead of sending the covers back to W. R. Patton on the but the great experiment was set to begin on May 15, 1918. While promi - first available flight, (which would have been on January 22), the covers nent politicians, stamp dealers and collectors prepared their first-flight may have been deliberately held for the special, one-day return trip on keepsake covers, over at the Manufacturers Aircraft Association (MAA) January 31. certain employees had in mind to check the speed of delivery. So just The date of the postmark on Figure 4 indicates that it was pre - what was the MAA that it cared to investigate post office efficiency? pared by/for A. C. Roessler for delivery to Shelter Bay on the special, The MAA was founded as a corporation in February 1917. Its first one-day return flight. I think the receiving cancel was set up in error stockholders were a group of manufacturers cooperating to improve air - and should have read JAN 31. (I note that in one of the cancels the craft performance and to educate the public on the value of the airplane. numerals are upside down.) In spite of Roessler’s various shenanigans, I [1] Although aircraft production was suddenly an urgent wartime think this cover was dropped at Shelter Bay on the January 31, 1928 requirement, long-running legal disputes had arisen between companies flight. holding aviation patents (particularly Wright-Martin and Curtiss- If anybody has additional information regarding these covers, Burgess) and those desiring to mass produce airplanes. and/or comments on my analysis, I would be very pleased to hear from Exorbitant royalty fees were the primary issue. At the request of you. the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the MAA brokered a

References [1] Illustration courtesy of Vance Auctions: www.vanceauctions.com The cover was in their December 3, 2014 sale. [2] September 2001. Page 9. The Canadian Aerophilatelist, [3] This history was reproduced in December The Canadian Aerophilatelist, 1998. [4] by K.M. Molson, pages 170, 177. Pioneering in Canadian Air Transport [5] “Early Days of The North Shore Airmail Service, 1927-1928" by Pierre Vachon, in , June 2004. The Canadian Aerophilatelist [6] Cover from the collection of Dick McIntosh. Dick is the editor of Sec - tion 5, “Government and Other Airmail Covers of Canada” for the revised edition of This section The Air Mails of Canada and Newfoundland. is now available for comments and peer review. Anybody who would like a copy and to help with the peer revie, is encouraged to contact Dick at [email protected] Figure 1

PAGE 118 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2015 PAGE 119 cross-licensing agreement whereby any company under U.S. govern - The letters by Aerial Mail that you posted yesterday morning were delivered at ment contract to produce aircraft or aircraft engines was entitled to pay a the New Willard Hotel at 3:42 PM. I’m sending this by to days mail and drop in flat $200 per-airplane royalty to the MAA. The royalties were divided the box at 10:30 AM. Please note time of delivery. with 67.5 percent paid to Wright-Martin, 20 percent to Curtiss-Burgess Clearly the MAA devised an informal test to check performance with the remainder for MAA administration. [2] This way, the MAA pro - of the post office from the very first day of airmail service and again on tected their stockholders’ patent rights. the second day. The second day cover was backstamped May 16 at 12 Use of airmail came as naturally to the MAA just as forces of lift, p.m. and again on the 17th at 3:30 a.m. It appears to have been delivered gravity, thrust and drag govern airplanes in flight. But would this new on the 17th, although a pencil notation “7:00 Closed” on the reverse (see airmail service actually expedite correspondence enough to warrant the Figure 2) implies the Special Delivery carrier attempted delivery before high cost of postage? Data was necessary to make an informed decision. the MAA offices were opened that day. If you own a light blue cover, like that shown in Figure 1, with red and blue MAA wings logo but dated May 15, then you have a true commercial item and not simply a first-flight souvenir. We know this because the cover in Figure 1, postmarked on May 16, the second day of airmail service, contained the short note penned by an MAA employee. The letter is addressed to the MAA office in NYC, same as the printed return address. We can surmise the sender was on business in Washing - ton, D.C., and carried the stylish MAA stationery with him in order to write and mail this letter back to his home office. It reads (without cor - rection):

Washington Figure 3 5/16/18 Did the MAA find that the aerial service satisfied their expecta - Manufacturers Aircraft Assn. tions? The answer to this question might be evident after considering the New York. cover shown in Figure 3, a long cover in the same sky-blue color and bearing the same printed MAA logo as that of Figure 1. Postmarked five days after the inaugural flights, it received an airmail service handstamp at 3:00 p.m. on May 20 and was flown down to Washington. Some 24 hours passed before the cover received a nearly indistinct May 21 7 PM Washington backstamp. An 8:05 PM purple docketing stamp attests to its arrival at the New Willard Hotel an hour later. (This is the same hotel mentioned in the letter accompanying the Figure 1 cover.) The MAA, in using airmail subsequent to the inaugural and sec - ond day test covers, seemingly deemed the New York-Washington ser - vice valuable in its course of business. The MAA later endorsed the air - mail service, noting in its 1919 Year book: “The regularity and success of this route proves that longer routes can be made practical when planes are modified to suit the business and when landing fields cut the long route into a succession of short routes, each one of which can be easily Figure 2 flown.”

PAGE 120 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2015 PAGE 121 The MAA was often caught up in legal turbulence, undergoing investigation by the U.S. Army and Congress. In 1933 the MAA success - fully sued the United States in the U.S. Court of Claims for $363,500 in OIF and OEF Military Mail unpaid royalty fees for airplanes produced between 1917 and 1928. In David S. Ball 1965 the U.S. Government filed an anti-trust lawsuit leading to the Those familiar with military mail know that servicemen in MAA’s eventual dissolution in 1977. down-range deployed environments are permitted to send letters home without affixing postage. As a long-time philatelist I thought I might have some fun during my overseas assignments. References 1. Faurote, Fay L (Ed). MAA Aircraft Year Book, 1919, p. 32-3. 2. http://www.cptech.org/cm/maa.html 3. Faurote, p. 23. 4. Inventory of the Manufacturers Aircraft Association records, 1843- 1979. University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center, ‘History’, 2007, Rocky Mountain Online Archive; http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wyu-ah06858.xml 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 about bulletins, services and dues. Canadian Aerophilatelic Society Leonard (Len) Lukens Steve Johnson 4601 South Pacific Highway, #2 Figure 1 787 Wharncliffe Road S Phoenix OR 97535 London, ON N6J 2N8 CANADA We are instructed to write “Free” or “Soldier’s Mail” where a [email protected] stamp usually goes. Here our team of five was based in Germany as part Rocky Mountain Aerophilatelic Club of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF). We always seemed to be on call Metropolitan Air Post Society William E. Crabbs, secretary Ernest Wheeler P.O. Box 620695 (Bravo) instead of scheduled to fly so we couldn’t relax or go sightseeing. 7 Evelyn Terrace Littleton CO 80162-0695 We just had to sit. On Figure 1 I used an inkjet printer to put a postage [email protected] Wayne NJ 07470-3446 stamp-sized picture where the stamp should go. It was postmarked in [email protected] Northwest Chapter - AAMS Balad, Iraq and sent to my home in Charleston, South Carolina. On a more recent deployment, I wanted to document different Southern California Air Mail Society locations where we picked up wounded soldiers. In this case we flew c/o President Bill Keesling 14723 Burbank Blvd. from our base in Afghanistan (Operation ENDURING FREEDOM - OEF) Van Nuys CA 91411-3336 to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan where I posted the letter shown as Figure 2. Since our living accommodations did not include an inkjet printer, I used col - ored pencils to identify the international airport code, UAFM, for that Changes or corrections? city. I also spruced the cover up by asking members of my team to auto - Please send all corrections, additions or changes to: graph it. [email protected] The last example (Figure 3) was by far the most challenging.

PAGE 122 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2015 PAGE 123 flight. Our ground time was about two hours and I had already arranged to have someone open the facility after hours so I could have the March 19 cancel. From there we flew back to Germany. We got in very early in the morning so I took a nap and then took the covers for the March 20 German cancel. The following day we loaded patients, many soldiers we picked up in Iraq, for the trans- Atlantic trip to Andrews Air Force Base. Buses from Walter Reed, Bethesda and other medical centers lined up to accept our wounded war - riors. I had one of the journalists who accompanied us run over to the post office for the March 21 postmark. He had to be quick about it since the post office closed in 30 minutes. Once the patients were gone, we flew to Jackson, Mississippi. Ours was a rainbow crew. As Medical Crew Director (MCD) I was in charge of the medical mission. My other nurse was an active duty cap - Figure 2 tain. Our three enlisted members (EMTs and paramedics) were either When the Globemaster III was poised to reached the million hour mark, eserve or Air National Guard. In the cockpit the aircraft commander was Boeing and the Air Force wanted to celebrate. Since there would be a few a guardsman from Jackson. His co-pilot was an exchange officer from C-17s (of the 250 produced) in the air the day the milestone was reached, Great Britain. The loadmaster and crew chief were also from Jackson. the military decided that whatever aeromedical evacuation mission flew The folks at the Jackson post office were as friendly and eager to see us as into Balad, Iraq that day would set the record. everyone who turned out to see their aircraft come home. They let me I learned about a week before the flight it would be my crew cancel the envelopes myself. having the honor of that mission and the goodwill tour that followed. It The toughest cancel was the bold strike at Scott Air Force Base in gave me enough time to print some artwork on a stack of envelopes and Illinois. As luck would have it (and fortunately I had lots) a squadron put out a call for help getting them postmarked. buddy was at Scott for a few weeks and I was able to get him to meet the The 791st Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron plane. We stopped just long enough to pick up the four-star general in (EAES) was deployed to Ramstein Air Base in Germany. For the first leg charge of Air Mobility Command. We were to keep the engines running of the journey I had a medic who brought wounded out to our aircraft at and open the door just long enough for the general to jump in. My friend Balad drive over to their postal unit as we got the soldiers situated for ran up and pounded on the crew entrance as soon as the massive trans - port came to a stop. I handed off the stack of envelopes and he was off like a shot. Generals are never on time or the covers would have been grounded as we winged our way to California. At Long Beach the welcome was warm and massive. We toured the plant and heard numerous speeches lauding our lifesaving work and how their Globemaster III helps make that possible. I found the wife of a Boeing vice president to run to the local post office. It was now March 27 and time to head back to work. On the way from Iraq we couldn’t buy our own steak or a beer. We were the toast of the town. Ironically, on the way back we were little more than talking cargo. We even got bumped for pallets judged more Figure 3 essential to the war effort than we were.

PAGE 124 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2015 PAGE 125 Silver Bradley Wilde Canal Zone: First Permanent Airmail Series Used News of the Shows on International Mail Silver-Bronze Michael Drabik Canal Zone Golden Anniversary Airmail Stamps MILCOPEX 2014 September 19-21, 2014 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Literature: Handbooks and Catalogs Vermeil Steve Shay Gold Mail to and from the U.S. Navy by U.S. Airmail James W. Graue, Editor American Air Mail Catalogue, 7th Edition, 1918-1941 Also: USCS Locy Award Volume 1 James W. Graue German North Atlantic Catapult Airmail 1929-1935 SESCAL 2014 Literature: Periodicals October 17-19, 2014 Los Angeles, California Gold Gold James W. Graue, Editor Jerome V. V. Kasper The German Postal Specialist Aerogrammes of Ethiopia Vickie Canfield Peters, Allen Klein Macon Remember the USS Editor Airpost Journal

FILATELIC FIESTA 2014 FLOREX 2014 November 14-16, 2014 San Jose, California December 5-7, 2014 Orlando, Florida Gold Steve Tucker Court of Honor Pan American’s Pacific Clippers 1935-1942 William Fort III Also: APS Excellence 1940-1980, Wartime Trans-Atlantic Airmail Schuman Award of Merit Gold James W. Graue German North Atlantic Catapult Airmail Single Frame Gold Dickson H. Preston Graf Zeppelin Hindenburg 1929-1935 Processing and Pas- Robert Hisey French African Airmail Routes During senger Mail 1928-1937 Also: Germany GPS Award World War II Also: APS Excellence 1940-1980, APS Research, Military Postal History Award

CHICAGOPEX 2014 Silver November 21-23, 2014 Itasca, Illinois Zeb Vance The Flying Post Office, A USPOD Experiment Grand Award Jerzy Kupiec-Weglinsky Airmail in the Polish Territories 1914-1939 Also: AAMS Award, Single Frame Vermeil James W. Graue Polonus Multi-Frame Grand Award Sending German Airmail on Zeppelin South America Flights 1930-1937

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PAGE 128 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2015 PAGE 129 AAMS Membership Report As of January 18, 2015 Submitted by Membership Secretary Sergio Lugo New Applicants 12282 Basil Copeland Jr. 12283 John Howard, Brig. General, retired

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