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The Official Publication of the American Air Mail Society
March 2013 Volume 84, No.3 Whole No. 993
March’s feature article — Final Crossing: China Clipper’s Last Pre-War Trans-Pacific Airmail Page 99 AAMS Publications Zeppelins & Aerophilately Inventory Reduction Sale Ask for our Free Price List of Worldwide Flight covers and stamps. through April 15, 2013 The following is a small sampling – full list on Website! Sale to AAMS Members at 40% of Retail Price Title Retail Reduction These listings are part of the European Zeppelin Price Price Collection of the late Gerhard Wolff. Items can be Paris Balloon Posts 12.50* 5.00 ordered by country and Sieger number. Newfoundland Airmails 18.00* 7.20 Austria Pioneer Airplane Airmails 25.00* 10.00 Item #S.56A: 1930 (April) Second flight to Switzerland postal card Rocket Mail – Kronstein 20.00* 8.00 with eight airmails. Liechtenstein dispatch, Schaan-Friedrichshafen- Glider Mail 20.00* 8.00 Lausanne. Lausanne receiving cancel on front...... $300.00 Airpost Journal Index (1990) 12.00* 4.80 Item #S.69: 1930 (June 18) Schlesien Round Flight postal card. Aerial Mail Service 15.00 6.00 Friedrichshafen dropped over Breslau with receiving cancel ..$500.00 Pioneer Hungarian Airmail 15.00 6.00 Liechtenstein Brazil Airmails 15.00 6.00 Item #S.143Aa: 1932 (April 1) 2nd So. America Flight. PPC of Schiers Max 15.00 6.00 in winter. Sao Paulo backstamp on picture side. LBK 66 ...... $400.00 * Hardbound Item #S.207: 1933 (May 25) Italian flight picture postcard of Authors can purchase at 20% of retail price Neuschwanstein Castle in black and white. Friedrichshafen-Rome. Special Prices for Quantity Sale LBK 80b ...... $450.00 20% of retail price for 25-50 total, 15% for 50-99 total, 10% for 100+ Item #S.406 1936 (May 2) First North America Flight cover. Sent reg - istered from Vaduz via Frankfurt to New York. LBK 130 . . . . . $200.00 Airpost Journal Switzerland Years Regular Price Reduction Price Item S.351 1929 (October 18) First Swiss flight picture postcard. Per Copy Per Copy Flight cachet for First Swiss Flight, September 26 but not posted until 2011 - 2012 3.00 2.00 October 18! Rubber-stamped in violet “Verspatet aufgefunden,” belat - 2008 - 2010 2.50 1.50 edly discovered. Some scraped spots on picture side from hinge removal. SLK 126 ...... $1,100.00 2000 - 2007 2.00 1.00 Item #S.43: 1929 (October 15) Silesia postal card. 10c postcard with <2000 15+ 50¢ an additional 75c airmail. Breslau receiving cancel on address side. $1,100.00 50% discount for total order of 50+ copies SLK 105B ...... Item # S.68Ac: 1930 (May 1) Germany Flight via Munich postcard with attractive six-stamp franking. B49-52, C8, C13. Addressed to Jack Knight Air Log Basel. SLK 123B ...... $450.00 50¢ each, 12 for $5.00 Henry Gitner Philatelists, Inc. 50% discount for total order of 50+ copies PO Box 3077T, Middletown NY 10940 All orders from the Publications Surplus must be made directly with Email: [email protected] — http://www.hgitner.com Greg Schmidt, [email protected], who will quote the final price including packing and shipping costs.
MARCH 2013 PAGE 89 In This Issue of the Airpost Journal Letters to — ARTICLES — Final Crossing: China Clipper’s Last Pre-War Trans-Pacific Airmail ...... 99 Robert E. Mattingly the Editor Development of Airmail Services in Poland 1929-1939 Part 5: Crash Mail ...... 117 Auction Listings in the Journal Jerzy W. Kupiec-Weglinski and Jacek Kosmala I do not have a problem with the listings not being available in the Journal . However, John Puzine in his letter (February 2103 Airpost — NEWS — Journal ) included Editor's Comments as having no "lasting value." Sad to ARIPEX Hosts AAMS Convention ...... 116 say this has not always been the case. I, for one, learned more from Wayne Youngblood's editor page than from many of the articles. — COLUMNS — I miss him and his Editor's Page and hope some day it can be Canadian Air Mail Notes ...... 112 revived as an important part of the Journal - and with "lasting value." Letters to the Editor ...... 91 Jack Graham Note from the Editor ...... 92 Member #05225 Pan Am Notes ...... 125 President’s Message ...... 94
— DEPARTMENTS – Another City of Warsaw Cover Classified Ads ...... 132 After reading the most recent article on the development of Pol - Membership Report ...... 131 ish airmails in the February 2013 Airpost Journal , I thought I’d share a cover the membership might enjoy.
Editor and Advertising Vickie Canfield Peters 11911 E Connor Road Valleyford WA 99036 vcanfi[email protected] Staff Writers and Columnists Joe Kirker Alan Warren: Airmail Elsewhere in Print Chris Hargreaves: Canadian Air Mail Notes Bob Wilcsek: Zeppelin Letters Copyright 2013 The American Air Mail Society . The Airpost Journal (ISSN 0739-0939) is pub - lished monthly by the American Air Mail Society, Box 110, Mineola, NY 11501. Periodical postage paid at Spokane WA 99201 and additional post offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to American Air Mail Society, P.O. Box 5367, Virginia Beach VA 23471-0367. Subscription Rate $33 per year; $5 per copy. It is analogous to Figure 7 (Transoceanic Flights 1211), shown on Opinions expressed in features and columns in this publication are solely those of the authors and Page 60 of the APJ , except instead of being self-addressed to the aviators, do not necessarily represent those of the society. it was addressed to then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The president
PAGE 90 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2013 PAGE 91 was a well-known and avid stamp collector with a wide and varied col - exhibit. An article about the situation appears on Page 128. Please keep lection. The cover became part of FDR’s collection and was later auc - an ear to the ground concerning this loss. tioned by Harmer’s. Speaking of scans, this might be a good time to talk about article Matt Heller submissions and the illustrations that accompany them. I’m happy to take articles in most any form: handwritten, emailed or on a disk. Regardless of your chosen method, please include contact information. I Article was ‘Path of Discovery’ sometimes have a question and need to reach the author. All articles are The article “The 1942 Confidential Timetables” (January 2013 subject to editing, although I do my best to retain the author’s flavor and Airpost Journal ) was new information for me. I am far from John Wil - intent. son’s level of knowledge. We must remember that the numbers of collec - Scans create more of a problem than text. Please do not embed tors new to this field are still growing. the illustrations in the text. Embedded photos not only suffer in quality Mr. Wilson said, “Full marks to the author for his enthusiasm.” when I pull them from the text, but they wreak havoc with my design Try to remember that those of us still learning need basic information program. like this while people like Mr. Wilson need to help us grow and enjoy the The easiest way for me to deal with scans is to have them sent as hobby. email attachments. As I am not a philatelist, I appreciate when writers I know I repeated myself, but this is because I feel articles like indicate placement of the illustrations in the article. You can indicate this are important to beginners. where they should be placed by simply making a note in the text: “Insert Jim McCraven Figure 1 Here.” Just number the figures and we’re good to go. I also need scans that are 300 dpi (dots per inch), whether tif, A Note from the Editor jpeg or pdf. All scanners can be set to this dpi. When the original dpi is below 150, it’s almost impossible to get a quality illustration for the mag - azine. As a word of caution, images taken off the internet are usually Vickie Canfield Peters only 72 or 90 dpi. This is done intentionally to keep people from repro - ducing them. If the only option is a web image, try contacting the owner I’d like to welcome Chris Hargreaves, editor of The Canadian of the cover and asking for a better scan. Aerophilatelist , back into the AAMS authors’ pen. Chris’ “Canadian Air Authors are also welcome to send me good color photocopies, Mail Notes” was a staple of the now-defunct Jack Knight Air Log. The which I can then scan and fix for publication. While I will take originals, updated, “2.0 version” of the column makes its debut appearance in this there’s no good reason to chance losing them in the mail, as Don David issue of the Airpost Journal. Price will testify. Chris’ byline is by no means new to the APJ . He has contributed Members should feel free to contact me about submitting articles a number of articles over the years that have served to increase member and illustrations or anything else that arises in regards to the Airpost knowledge of Canadian airmail. It’s good to have him as a featured Journal. I may not know the answer, but I can almost always find some - writer and I look forward to working with him. body who does! Column ideas are always encouraged. Not only do columns pro - vide regular copy for the magazine but offer a unique prospective on the subjects they cover. If you think you’d like to write a monthly, bimonthly Want to buy, trade or sell? or quarterly column for the Airpost Journal, please send me an email at vcanfi[email protected] and we’ll talk about it. Take advantage of the classifieds Unfortunately, there’s some bad news this month. Member Don David Price has lost two double-pages of his award-winning “Jenny” PAGE 92 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2013 PAGE 93 it requires a petition by 25 members. It seems unlikely that most of us President’s could even name that many AAMS members, and assuming that one could, circulating a petition is no small task. Other specialty philatelic Jim Graue Message societies have less onerous requirements for nominations, which encour - ages participation by more members. Pending a revision in our bylaws, the best way for any AAMS 2013: An AAMS Elections Year member to get into the swim is to contact Allen Klein, the chairman of Time flies when you are having fun, so we must be having a the Nominations Committee, [email protected] . wonderful time! * * * It is already time for elections again. Therefore, in accordance AAMS Dues with the provisions of the AAMS Bylaws, I offer the following: Keeping pace with postage rate changes is challenging. Based on what we knew, a dues increase was approved and announced in the Feb - Call for Nominations for AAMS Officers and Directors ruary Airpost Journal . Notice is hereby given that nominations are open for the We now find that the rates for foreign mail are more complex. offices of president, vice president, secretary and treasurer, and also The new rates for North America are changing, but continue to provide for four positions of director-at-large. Term of office will be two years, concession rates, and these differ for Canada and Mexico. We will alter 2014 – 2015. our dues rates to hold the line as best we can at increases needed to cap - A Nominations Committee will be appointed to make nomi - ture increased costs only. nations. Nominations may also be made by petition of 25 members. AAMS Annual Membership Dues AAMS Elections Calendar for 2013 2012 2013 March 1 Call for Nominations and formation of Nominations United States 25.00 30.00 Committee Canada 30.00 40.00 May 1 Nominations completed by Nominations Committee Mexico 30.00 50.00 June 1 Nominations Committee nominees published in Airpost Journal All Other Foreign 55.00 60.00 July 1 Deadline for Nominations by Petition Additionally, we will charge an extra $3 to late dues payers who have August 1 Deadline for Election Statements by Nominees required multiple notices. September 1 Election Issue of the Airpost Journal. All nominations * * * published together with Election statements William H. Gross Stamp Gallery at the National Postal Museum provided by each nominee, election ballots dis- First, two letters to get me on track . . . tributed. I was amazed and amused at the comments about National October 25 Deadline for receipt of completed ballots Postal Museum and fund raising in the January 2013 Airpost Journal . November 1 Election results reported by Board of Elections All major philatelic organizations in the U.S. were given the December 1 Election results published in Airpost Journal opportunity to donate to the new Gross Gallery and its philatelic educa - January 1, 2014 New officers and directors take office tion programs. In exchange, organizations received either online credit (for $100), and also, in the case of the $10,000 donation, permanent name This is a golden opportunity to take an active role in the opera - recognition in the gallery. Many philatelic organizations felt that reach - tions of the American Air Mail Society. With Aerophilately 2014 on the ing two million online visitors a year and up to one million onsite visi - agenda, it promises to be a busy and exciting time. tors a year for many decades to come was well worth it. The provision for nomination by petition is not “friendly” in that To correct misleading and inaccurate statements in the com - PAGE 94 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2013 PAGE 95 ments on page 7, no federal or government funds are paying for the uncertain as to the total project cost, but Cheryl makes it quite clear that no William H. Gross Stamp Gallery construction, design, fabrication, con - funding for this is coming from the federal level. For that we should be most tent or educational programming. All those funds must come from fund thankful. raising. As to my editorializing comment that “it appears to be another uncon - We are grateful to Bill Gross for the major donation of $10 mil - trolled government expense . . .," I plead guilty. I am distraught by the long- lion and to all the individuals and organizations who have supported term ramifications of clearly unsustainable federal spending, particularly on what will open in September as the world's largest stamp gallery. This entitlements, which is creating debt we can never pay. It harbors a dark future. gallery will contribute to the future of the hobby and the growth of Enough said on that, as this is not the forum for those discussions. Our hobby is stamp collectors. actually a refuge from such problems and we can be thankful for it as there are I encourage everyone who has benefited from our wonderful not many. hobby to support organizations of your choice that promote philately's I strongly support Cheryl’s closing comment, “I encourage everyone future. who has benefited from our wonderful hobby to support organizations of your Cheryl R. Ganz, Ph.D. choice that promote philately's future.” JWG Chief Curator of Philately Smithsonian National Postal Museum AAMS Auction Also, a letter re the AAMS auctions . . . I was somewhat dismayed to read in the president's column in I feel very strongly that an error was made when AAMS the January 2013 Airpost Journal the comment about the board's action dropped the auction pages in the Airpost Journal . We went through the relative to the request by the National Postal Museum for a contribution same loss of members when the Jack Knight Air Log dropped the auction to help fund the William H. Gross Stamp Gallery. The comment I take and Bob Outlaw was no longer associated with it. issue with is "Why was $3 million insufficient is another question, as it I have stopped looking and will not ask for a hard copy through appears to be another uncontrolled government expense . . ." the mail. Consider your membership age and you will see that when it is I understand that this is a signed column, and therefore editori - too much of this computer, tablet, i-phone or camera, we tend to say to alizing by the author is permitted. However, the context of the comment, the devil with it and do without. The auction even makes money; why and referring to it as "another question," gives the impression that it was look that away? part of the discussion of the board. In searching the e-mail communica - Basil Burrell tions where the gift to the Postal Museum was discussed, I find nothing
Share your hobby . . . Via the Horseshoe Route (reverse shown), Iraq to U.S., Introduce a friend to the November 18-December 8, 1941. To Singapore by BOAC. Rate: 150 fils for international airmail letter + 20 fils registration. American Air Mail Society Flown by China Clipper from Singapore (Kallang). PAGE 98 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2013 PAGE 99 The amount of mail taken aboard at Kallang likely was substan - tial. Singapore served as a connecting and censorship point for trans- Pacific air mail from both the BOAC/Qantas “Horseshoe Route” and the KLM/KNILM service to and from the Dutch East Indies. At Manila, where China Clipper remained overnight on Novem - ber 29 and 30, connecting mail was also received. This mail was from two shuttle flights of Pan Am’s Sikorsky S-42B NC16735 Hong Kong Clip - per, which operated between Cavite and Kai Tak. The flights that arrived in the Philippines on November 24 and 30 brought the last pre-war transoceanic air mail from Hong Kong. China Clipper also loaded mail that originated in the Philippines. On Monday, December 1, 1941, China Clipper lifted from Manila Bay, turning east toward Guam for the 87th and final time. Among the newly boarded passengers were Maxim Litvinov, Soviet ambassador- designate to the United States, and his English wife, Ivy Lowe. Unlike bustling Singapore and Manila, where military activity was evident, Guam was somnolent. Totally unfortified, the island had been written off by American strategists. Beyond official correspondence from the Navy administration and prior reports from the signals inter - cept site which went out by clipper, the Guam mail bag was light. At the next overnight stop, Wake and Midway, crew and passen -
Hong Kong to New York, November 25-December 7/8, 1941. Flown to Manila by PAA NC 16735 Hong Kong Clipper. Rate: HK$ 3.50 + 25 cents registration. Honolulu (Dec 4) and New York (Dec 7, Dec 8) registry postmarks on reverse. Flown by China Clipper from Manila (Cavite).
Burma to U.S., November 21-December 8, 1941. To gers were restricted to the immediate vicinity of the company hotel. Both Singapore by BOAC. Rate: 3 rupees, 12 annas + 3 annas regis - places had more civilian construction workers and military defenders. tration. Sent by Harold Wylie, finance officer, First American On December 5, 1941, the Japanese cabinet decided to go to war Volunteer Group. San Francisco registry (Dec. 6) and Hamilton against the United States, Great Britain and the Netherlands, barring an Square backstamp (Dec. 8) on reverse. Flown by China Clipper China Clipper from Singapore (Kallang). unexpected diplomatic breakthrough. While was in the air between Guam and Wake, Emperor Hirohito gave his personal approval
PAGE 100 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2013 PAGE 101 to commence hostilities on December 8, 1941, Toyko time. December 3. When she landed, the Japanese Pearl Harbor attack force Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku promptly instructed the Combined was roughly 980 miles to the northeast, on schedule, and maintaining Fleet: “Climb Mount Niitaka 1208.” This was the pre-arranged order to radio silence. attack Hawaii, Hong Kong, Wake, Midway and the Philippines and to occupy portions of Thailand as well as the International Settlements at Shanghai and Tientsin. Wake had no postal facilities. Outgoing eastbound airmail was sent to Honolulu by pouch for processing; westbound mail went to Guam. On Midway, the marines ran a branch of the Fleet Post Office in Hawaii which handled military, cable station and civilian contractor mail, most of which left by sea. The first-class surface rate was only three cents versus 30 cents for transportation by air. China Clipper arrived at Midway about 4 p.m. on Thursday,
Midway Island to Seattle, December 1-7/8, 1941. Sent by a crew member on the US Coast and Geodetic Survey ship Explorer. Rate: 30 cents. No backstamps. Flown by China Clip - per, from Midway, December 3-6, 1941.
The following day, it took China Clipper a few minutes short of 11 hours to fly the 1,332 mile leg between Midway and Pan Am’s Pearl City base at Honolulu. December 4, 1941, was a busy day for PAA in Hawaii. NC18602 Pacific Clipper and NC18606 American Clipper had departed for Canton Island and San Francisco, respectively, while NC14715 Philippine Clipper had arrived from the American west coast for an overnight stop on her way to Singapore. The return flight to California by American Clipper (she was on the episodic shuttle run between San Francisco and Honolulu) compli - cates identification of Hawaii-origin, last-flight mail. The entire shuttle operation, which began in early August, 1941, is inadequately document - ed and poorly understood. A registered cover backstamped in San Fran - Philippines (Dumalag/Capiz, P.I.) to Detroit, November cisco on December 5, 1941, would go far toward answering the question: 28-December 8, 1941. Rate: 1 peso + 20 centavos registra - did NC18606 American Clipper fly mail on her return trip? Perhaps a tion. Iloilo (Nov 29), Manila (Nov 29), Honolulu (Dec 4), San reader has such a cover. Francisco (Dec 6) and Detroit (Dec 8) postmarks plus 40 cen - Unlike the pre-dawn wake-up calls and long daylight flights of tavos postage on reverse. Flown by China Clipper from Manila (Cavite). the early part of the trans-Pacific trip, departure from Pearl City came at a civilized 2:30 p.m. That Friday afternoon, shortly after takeoff, port side PAGE 102 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2013 PAGE 103 passengers and crew would have had a fine view of “Battleship Row:” West Virginia, Maryland, California, Arizona, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Nevada and Pennsylvania, mostly moored in pairs off the east side of Ford Island. Depending on the winds, often strong and sometimes contrary, the 2,400-mile overnight flight between Honolulu and San Francisco took between 18 and 20 hours.
Hawaii (?) to U.S., December 3- 7/8, 1941. Sent by crewman on USS Downes (DD 375), in Pearl Harbor Dry Dock #1. Rate: 20 cents. No backstamp, so it could have been flown to San Francisco by either NC 18606 American Clipper , Decem - ber 4-5, or China Clipper (December 5-6). Downes was a smoking hulk less than 96 hours after letter was mailed.
On the long last leg of her final trans-Pacific trip, China Clipper may have encountered headwinds since various anecdotes cite her late arrival as providential in delaying the departure of NC18611 Anzac Clip - per that afternoon. When she set down in San Francisco Bay sometime before noon on Saturday, December 6, 1941, China Clipper had flown the Pacific 174 times, covering roughly 1.23 million miles, almost all of which were over water. As passengers disembarked and ground staff prepared to unload her mail and baggage compartments, the United States’ entrance into World War II was less than 24 hours away. Collecting covers from this and other final pre-WWII flights is an interesting challenge. Not just because finding the covers requires patience. In the last month of peace, Pan American had seven clippers to fly trans-ocean routes to Asia and New Zealand and shuttle services between the Philippines and Macaw/Hong Kong and between San Fran - cisco and Honolulu. An eighth clipper, B-314 NC18601, Honolulu Clipper, PAGE 104 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2013 PAGE 105 Table One PAA aircraft, their last pre-WWII fights and, where relevant, their last trans-Pacific flights.
Martin M-130, NC14715, Philippine Clipper : San Francisco to Wake, December 3-7, 1941. Westbound mail was flown to Hawaii and Midway. The clipper was strafed at the PAA ramp on Wake, December 8. West - bound mail was left at pier side and no eastbound mail was carried on the return flight to San Francisco, December 8-11, 1941. Philippine Clip - per's last complete trans-Pacific flight was from Singapore to San Francis - co, November 11-18, 1941.
Martin M-130, NC14716, China Clipper: Singapore to San Francisco, China Clipper November 29-December 6, 1941. Covers are known from Singapore, vari - (Photo courtesy of Pan American Airways/Pan American ous points on the “Horseshoe Route,” Dutch East Indies, Hong Kong, Historical Foundation) Manila, Wake, Midway, and Hawaii. I have not seen a cover from Guam was out of service undergoing a major overhaul that lasted from late for this flight but there are probably some out there. October 1941 to January 1942. As Bob Wilcsek pointed out in the May 2012 Airpost Journal, the Sikorsky S-42B, NC16735B, Hong Kong Clipper: Manila to Macaw/Hong Pacific 97 Congress book, published by the American Philatelic Con - Kong, December 6, 1941. Last trans-Pacific mail left Hong Kong on gress, has an excellent article written by AAMS members: “The Last November 24 and 30, 1941. Aircraft strafed and set afire at Kai Tak on Flight Out: Seven Pan Am Clippers on the Eve of Pearl Harbor.” December 8, 1941, sinking in Hong Kong harbor. When it came to the Boeing B-314 and A-314s, the authors did not, however, resolve the question of which names went with which air - Boeing 314, NC18601, Honolulu Clipper: Honolulu to San Francisco, craft. Instead they explained, “Aircraft registrations are not given for October 22-23, 1941, a shuttle flight which may or may not have carried Boeing clippers due to extensive upgrading of the B-314 to B-314As in mail. Aircraft went into major overhaul on October 26, 1941, and was out late 1941. This resulted in a number of name changes that have not been of service until January, 1942. The last trans-Pacific flight by Honolulu cataloged. Clipper was from Auckland to San Francisco, September 30-October 4, This puzzle continued until 2011, when Wilcsek, John Wilson 1941. and John Johnson Jr. demonstrated pretty conclusively that, from mid- summer 1941 until after Pearl Harbor, Pan Am called NC18602 Pacific Boeing B314, NC18602 Pacific Clipper: San Francisco to Auckland, Clipper and NC18609 California Clipper. Their solidly documented December 1-8, 1941. Covers known to Hawaii, New Zealand and Aus - research, founded in primary sources, is vital to “last flight” collectors. It tralia. Others to intermediate points have not been seen but likely exist. clarifies and also supercedes several reference works often used to match The epic return flight from Auckland to New York, December 16, 1941 - covers, flights and aircraft. Simply put, when identifying Pan Am Pacific January 6, 1942 did not carry mail. last flights, keep copies of both the Pacific 97 and APJ, February 2011, “Pan Am Boeing Clipper Names and Changes” handy. Table One gives a Boeing A314, NC18606, American Clipper: Honolulu to San Francisco, rundown which may also be helpful. December 4-5, 1941, shuttle flight. The jury is still out on whether mail was regularly flown on shuttle missions. American Clipper's final trans- Pacific flight was from Singapore to San Francisco, November 15-27, PAGE 106 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2013 PAGE 107 1941. lantic and Pacific, Proud Publications Ltd, Heathfield, East Sussex, UK, 2008. Boeing A314, NC18609, California Clipper: Auckland to San Francisco, Historical References November 25-30, 1941. A substantial amount of mail, mostly of Aus - Peter Berry, MRAES, The Boeing 314 Trans-Ocean Flying Boats, tralian origin, was on board. Covers from intermediate points are also Second Edition, (publisher unknown), November, 1998. known. This was the final pre-WWII clipper flight from New Zealand Ed Dover, The Long Way Home, Paladwr Press, McLean, Virginia, that carried mail. 1999. M. D. Klaas, Last of the Flying Clippers , Schiffer Publishing Ltd, Boeing A314, NC18611, Anzac Clipper: San Francisco to Hilo, December Atglen, Pennsylvania, 1997. 6-7, 1941. Aircraft was diverted from Honolulu to Hilo during the Japan - John Prados, Combined Fleet Decoded, Random House, New York, ese attack on Pearl Harbor. Mail and passengers were unloaded at Hilo 1995. and Anzac Clipper returned to San Francisco. No mail was carried on the Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept , (1991 Edition), Viking flight back. The final trans-Pacific mail flown by Anzac Clipper was Singa - Penguin, New York, 1981. pore to San Francisco, November 20-December 1, 1941.
Acknowledgment There's Strength in Growth . . . This article could not have been written without the assistance of John Johnson, Jr. In particular it was his eagle eye which spotted the Make it a goal to recruit just one new Postal Bulletin regarding termination of the shuttle service's authorization AAMS member this month! to carry mail. I also benefited greatly from the freely offered expertise of Bob Wilcsek and John Wilson, who read and commented on the draft. All three have my sincere thanks.
Philatelic References In addition to the articles mentioned in the text, information was drawn from/cross-checked with: The New York Times , “Passenger and Mail Ocean Air Services,” November 25-December 7, 1941. These were a part of the paper's daily “Shipping and Mails” coverage. Data was provided to the press by Pan American in both New York and San Francisco. Although contemporary information, the utility of these listings is compromised by the use of air - craft names but not their registration numbers. Hans E. Aitink and Egbert Hovenkamp, Bridging the Continents in Wartime, Stichting Luchtpostgeschiedenis, Enschede, The Netherlands, 2005. Thomas H. Boyle, Jr., Airmail Operations During World War II, American Air Mail Society, Mineola, New York, 1998. Jon E. Krupnick, Pacific Pioneers, The Rest of the Story, Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, Inc, Missoula, Montana, 2000. Edward B. Proud, Intercontinental Airmails, Volume One, Transat - PAGE 108 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2013 PAGE 109 PAGE 110 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2013 PAGE 111 the Royal Air Force training school at Leaside, outside Toronto, and was planned as part of a publicity event to encourage wartime recruitment. Canadian Air Mail Notes Approximately 125 covers were carried, and given a special cancellation. This was followed by some 20 more mail-carrying flights over the next Chris Hargreaves five years. The first regular airmail service from Canada began on October 15, 1920, between Victoria, British Columbia, and Seattle, Washington in the U.S.A. It was part of the U.S. Post Office Route F.A.M. 2, which car - For many years, "Canadian Air Mail Notes" appeared in each ried mail to and from ships en route between Seattle and Japan. Flights issue of the Jack Knight Air Log . This new version of the "Canadian Air from Seattle carried late mail for the Orient, which was transferred while Mail Notes" will appear quarterly. I plan to emphasize the development the ship stopped in Victoria. Flights from Victoria carried invoices for of airmail services within Canada and how they affected mail to places inbound cargoes (particularly silk) so that advance preparations could be outside of Canada. made before the arrival of the ship in Seattle. The flights also carried I will begin with a brief history of airmail in Canada and include some local mail between Victoria and Seattle. answers to some questions previously raised in the Jack Knight Air Log . I’ll also look at new questions about Canadian covers. Anyone who has a Semi-Official Air Mail Flights cover from Canada they would like more information on is welcome to During the 1920s, a number of companies began flying into send a copy to me at [email protected] or to 4060 Bath Road, remote areas of northern Canada, often in support of prospectors and Kingston, Ontario K7M 4Y4, Canada. miners. The post office allowed these companies to charge for the letters they carried and to issue their own stamps. These stamps had a "semi- 1912 - 1930 official" status, as they were sold at post offices, but the post office did The first attempt to fly mail in Canada was in Winnipeg on May not assume responsibility for the airmail or help with the cost of the ser - 10, 1912. The plan was reported in The Winnipeg Tribune and a few post - vice! cards handstamped "From Winnipeg By First Aerial Route Thomas The first of these stamps was produced by Laurentide Air Ser - McGoey Aviator" have been found. However, Thomas McGoey was sick vices in 1924 and the last by Canadian Airways Limited in 1934. At first, and did not fly in Winnipeg; the only flight on May 10 was by "Fat" they could only be placed on the back of an envelope and were not Tyckell who crashed after reaching a height of 50 feet. There is no evi - dence that any mail was actually flown. [1]
The first successful airmail flight in Canada was from Montreal to Toronto on June 24, 1918. This was made by Captain Brian Peck from PAGE 112 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2013 PAGE 113 allowed to show a value in case they were confused with regular postage McMurray, at the end of the railway from Edmonton, to Aklavik, on the stamps. These restrictions were later relaxed. Arctic Ocean. Aklavik had grown up around a Hudson's Bay Company The semi-official stamp on the cover illustrated on the previous trading post. It was the administrative, medical and religious center of page was sold by Patricia Airways & Exploration Limited for 50 cents. It the region, but it's population was only about 400. Before the introduc - covered the flight from Birch Lake (where many camps exploring for tion of airmail, communication with the rest of Canada was by steamer gold were situated) to PA&EL's base in Sioux Lookout. The eight cents in along the Mackenzie River in summer and by dogsled along the frozen regular stamps paid the surface mail rate from Canada to Switzerland. river in winter. The post office offered 26 special cachets for the various legs of First Canadian Government Airmail Flights the service. Although this was an Air Stage service, if a First Flight cachet The Canadian Post Office first budgeted money for airmail ser - was required, the air mail rate had to be paid. vices in 1927. It began with an experimental service between Montreal In 1929 there was great interest in aviation, in stamp collecting and Rimouski, designed to connect with trans-Atlantic steamers and and in anything to do with the Arctic. The result was that more than speed up mail to and from Europe. 100,000 covers were sent to the post office in Edmonton to be carried on The post office also contracted for several winter airmail services the inaugural flights! Commercial Airways Ltd., which had been award - in 1927 and 1928 to communities that were otherwise cut off during the ed the contract for the service, had to acquire three additional aircraft for winter. In May 1928 a daily airmail service between Montreal and Toron - the inaugural flights. to began. The route from Fort McMurray to Aklavik was a distance of At first there was no additional charge when mail was flown, but 1,676 miles. A team of four aircraft and six pilots shuttled the mail, with from October 1, 1928 an airmail fee of 5¢ was charged for letters up to some aircraft carrying mail as far north as possible, while others took the one ounce to addresses in Canada or the U.S.A. This paid for a faster ser - canceled mail south and returned with mail for more northern points. [2] vice than the regular mail. Mail was still carried at regular rates on Air By 1930, the Canadian Air Mail system had expanded to include Stage services, which flew mail to points which were very difficult to fast air mail services from Montreal to Moncton, New York, Detroit and reach by other means. (Some people argued that the term "airmail" Ottawa; from Toronto to Buffalo (to connect with the overnight mail should be used to cover mail flown by either type of service, but in prac - train to New York); and from Winnipeg to Calgary and Edmonton. tice the term "air mail" has referred to both types of service.). On June 5, 1930, Canadian Airways Ltd. arranged some experi - In December 1929 an airmail service was inaugurated from Fort mental flights to demonstrate the potential speed of its Moncton - Mon -
PAGE 114 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2013 PAGE 115 treal - Toronto - Hamilton - Windsor service. The above cover was post - Development of Airmail Services marked in Moncton, New Brunswick, at 4.30am, and backstamped in Hamilton, Ontario, at 2.00pm. The signature is that of pilot R.H. Bibby. in Poland 1929 – 1939 It turns out this was a high point of early Canadian Air Mail development. In 1931 the Canadian government began cutting airmail Part 5: Crash Mail routes to save money during the Great Depression. The Moncton - Mon - treal and Toronto - Buffalo services ended on June 1, 1931. Jerzy W. Kupiec–Weglinski and Jacek Kosmala References LOT Crash in Pirin Mountains, Bulgaria Most Canadian airmail flights of all types are listed and In 1937, LOT Polish Airlines expanded its international routes described in The Air Mails of Canada and Newfoundland , published by the beyond the Balkan peninsula with three weekly flights between Warsaw AAMS. Details are on the website at www.americanairmailsociety.org, and Lydda (Tel Aviv). or contact the author of this column if you cannot access these internet On Tuesday, November 23, 1937, a Douglas DC-2 aircraft (regis - references. tration SP–ASJ) piloted by Tadeusz Dmoszynski left Lydda at 8 a.m. for a [1] The McGoey cards were studied in The Canadian Aerophilate - scheduled flight to Poland. There were two more crew members, three list , (quarterly journal of The Canadian Aerophilatelic Society), March passengers and several thousand pieces of mail on board. After stops at 2012 and June 2012 issues. See www.aerophilately.ca for information Rhodes Island, Athens and Salonika, the airplane entered the Bulgarian about the CAS. airspace flying towards Sofia. In a blinding snowstorm and hampered by [2] Airmail Flights to the Arctic was recently published by Denny navigation problems with the Salonika–based air traffic controllers, the May and gives a detailed account of the flights to Aklavik. Contact may - airplane hit Jep–Tepe Mountain in the Pirin range of southwestern Bul - [email protected] for more information. garia. All on board were killed and most of the correspondence was lost in the ensuing fire. Of the few items recovered from the crash, eight covers are pre - ARIPEX Hosts AAMS Convention served in the Polish Postal Museum in Wrocław and one is in a private If you can’t spend April in Paris, spend the third weekend of the collection. They are all severely fire- and water-damaged. Posted in month in Mesa, Arizona. Those are the three days set aside for ARIPEX Palestine on November 21, they were addressed to various localities in 2013 and the American Air Mail Society’s annual convention. Poland. The reverses bear a December 4, 1937 cancellation (in Cyrillic AAMS activities begin Friday, April 19 at 11 a.m. with David and Latin) from Sveti Vratch, a town in Sandinski Municipality plus a Steidley’s program, “Modern U.S. Airmail Postal History Gems.” David special label postmarked December 16 (or December 15) by the Warsza - Crotty presents “Pan American Airways’ Atlantic Operations During wa 1 Post Office. The typed text in Polish reads: “Delayed and damaged World War II at 1 p.m. He is followed by “The Great World of Aerophi - in the air crash in Pirin Mountains on 23.XI.37.” Thus, more than three lately,” a program courtesy of Wolfgang Porges. The day concludes with weeks passed for the salvaged mail to be transported from the Bulgarian a 4 p.m. presentation by Geoff Brewster titled, “Philippines Flight Cov - crash site to Warszawa for final distribution. ers.” As the Pirin Mountain crash occurred in wintry conditions and Saturday, April 20 opens with the AAMS members’ meeting at exceptionally hard mountain terrain, it took several months for the res - 9:15 a.m. followed by the “Members Only” auction at 10:30. Bob Shoe - cuers to reach parts of the wreckage. Figure 1 shows a cover recovered maker rounds out the Saturday schedule with a discussion on “Airmail from the doomed LOT flight. Envelopes” at 1 p.m. Posted in Tel Aviv on November 21, 1937, to Cernauti, a The AAMS activities conclude Sunday morning at 10:15 with Romanian city just south of the Polish border, it bears (on reverse) a June “Wartime Trans-Pacific Airmails, a program by Bill Fort. 15, 1938 postmark from Sveti Vratch, a Bulgarian town close to the crash PAGE 116 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2013 PAGE 117 ered in Tel Aviv a week later on July 29. However, no copy of this item has been recorded. LOT Crash at Bucharest Airport, Romania On Thursday, August 18, 1938, a LOT Lockhead L–14H (regis - tered SP–BNJ), was on a routine return flight from Palestine to Poland. After safely crossing the Balkan peninsula, the airplane caught fire and burned while landing at the Bucharest airport. Although there were no fatalities, only part of the mail was saved. A few items addressed to Poland are known with various mark - ings: (1) a sole hand–written “from LOT air crash,” or; (2) attached “Received damaged” notice with manuscript annotation “in air crash” tied by Warszawa 2 “LOT” August 20, 1938 datestamp, or; (3) Seal(s) from the Polish Post reading “Received damaged” affixed Figure 1 to reclose the backflap. An example ( Figure 2 ), an envelope posted in Jerusalem on August 15, 1938, is partly charred and burned around the site, implying that it was recovered almost seven months after the acci - dent. A typed notice in French attached to the face reads “Burnt, deterio - rated, dirtied and torn due to the destruction of the plane on November 23 1937 in the Pirin Mountains.” The notice is postmarked Sofia, June 20, 1938, where the recovered mail was secured and marked for its final journey. The other cancellations that tie the notice are Bucharest (June 21 transit) and Cernauti (June 23 arrival). As there were daily flights by LOT from Bucharest to Warszawa via Cernauti, it is probable that the last leg of the journey was made by the same airline that started in Pales - tine months earlier.
LOT Air Disaster near Campulung, Romania The deadliest accident in the pre–Second World War era occurred on Friday, July 22, 1938. A newly purchased LOT Lockhead L– 14H “Super Electra” (registration SP–BNG) piloted by Władysław Kotar - ba and Olimpiusz Nartowski en route from Warszawa to Bucharest exploded just 18 minutes after take–off from a routine stop in Cernauti. The plane plunged to earth about 12 miles (20 km) from Campulung, a city in the Romanian Wallachia district. The 10 passengers and four crew members died instantly. Polish sources refer to a single piece of salvaged mail from this air disaster, reportedly posted in Warszawa on July 22, 1938 and deliv - Figure 2
PAGE 118 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2013 PAGE 119 edges. The letter received a postage–due stamp and “Slonim 21.8.38” postmark at the destination. (ex-Eliashar, Nierinck #380818). Other Plane Crashes and Accidents Poland–related mail recovered from crashes other than those of LOT Polish Airlines is very seldom seen. The authors were able to record just five such examples. • Chile – Paris Air France flight, November 3, 1935. After departing from Bahia in Brazil, the aircraft crashed, killing the pilot and three crew members. Out of 17 retrieved mailbags, a letter sent from Montevideo, Uruguay (postage missing) was ultimately forwarded to the addressee in Brody, a small village in the southern Poland. The cover is accompanied by a handwritten, signed and dated (29.XI.1935) document issued by Warszawa 19 (Airport) Post Office that reads: “Attached letter should be delivered to the addressee. The letter was recovered from the sunken airplane, which carried mail from South Figure 3, reverse America to Europe.” transit postmark and a violet notice in Spanish that reads: “Recovered from airplane accident dated 27 March 1937.” • Air France airplane Antares , en route from Argentina to Europe, disappeared on October 27, 1937 off the coast of Cape Blanc with a crew and seven passengers. Two water–damaged mailbags were found on the beach. One of the surviving covers (with commercial correspondence inside) was from Buenos Aires (October 20) to Poznan, Poland ( Figure 4 ). It bears a notice in French that reads: “Damaged mail, reconstituted by care of Casablanca office.” This cover reached its destination on Novem - ber 19, 1937. • Imperial Airways flying boat Calpurnia crashed and sank in Lake Ramadi (near Baghdad) on November 25, 1938 , killing all four crew mem - bers. However, 60 of the 69 mailbags from England for New Zealand and Australia were retrieved. All salvaged mail, including one recorded sta - tionery item from the Polish city of Łodz to New Zealand, was water soaked. The cover received a two–line notice “Received in damaged con - Figure 3 dition / ex flying boat Calpurnia”. • Imperial Airways flying boat Centurion , en route from Sydney to • Crash of L.A.N. Chilean National Airline, March 27, 1937. A Potez Great Britain, crashed and sank in the Hoogly River near Calcutta, India on 5 airplane suddenly changed course and crashed near the Inca region of June 12, 1939. The four passengers and crew were rescued and 40 bags of Peru killing all four crew members and one passenger. Recovered from mail salvaged. A letter from Australia to the Polish city of Gdynia, with the crash site some four months later was a letter from Bialystok, Poland, the postage washed off ( Figure 5 ), has a two–line notice marking: “Sal - March 18, 1937 addressed to Lima, Peru (Figure 3). It has a Warszawa PAGE 120 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2013 PAGE 121 lines still in operation. During more than 80 years of service, the flight speed has changed along with the flight conditions and the types of air -
Figure 5
Figure 4 vaged mail ex. Centurion.” A German notice cachet Durchnasst aus Cal - cutta eingegangen and label Amtlich verschlossen tied by a June 22, 1939 Munich postmark are on the reverse. Epilogue This concludes a five–part series on the development of airmail services in Poland between 1929 and 1939. As of 2012, LOT Airlines, the Figure 5, reverse flag carrier of Poland since 1929, remains one of the world’s oldest air - PAGE 122 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2013 PAGE 123 craft. What remains unchanged, however, is the top professionalism of Polish pilots. PAN AM NOTES Acknowledgment The authors thank Mr. Zygmunt Kopel (London, UK) for sharing Bob Wilcsek Figures 3 and 5 from his collection.
Bibliography Fischer: Katalog Polskich Znakow Pocztowych. Tom II. 2010; pp. 394- Hong Kong Extension Covers Before 419; 444-456. The FAM 14 Extension to Hong Kong Klosinski A: “Polska poczta z katastrof lotniczych.“ Filatelista 2007; pp. 356-360. Pan American Airways flew the first trans-Pacific FAM 14 flight Glass A, an Mikulski M: Polish Airplane Services. Warszawa 1980. from San Francisco to Manila in November 1935, and extended the route to Hong Kong in April 1937. An interesting area of collecting is mail posted to/from destinations beyond Manila in the 17-month period Airpost Journal Procedures and Deadlines between November 1935 and April 1937. This mail in either direction is elusive. Of course, mail addressed to/from Hong Kong would be the Deadline first place to begin such a search, but frankly it is easier to find mail post - Deadline for the receipt of articles, letters, advertising and ed to/from destinations beyond Hong Kong than to Hong Kong itself in news is the first of the month preceding the month of publication. For this time period. example, we need everything for the November issue by October 1, The Figure 1 cover was posted from San Francisco to Hong Kong everything for the December issue by November 1, everything for the at the correct 75c rate, which was the rate to Manila and beyond for west - January issue by December 1 and so on. bound U.S. mail on the inaugural flight of FAM 14 service, November 22, The preferred method of receiving copy is via an email attachment. Please send as an MS Word document. We also welcome compact disks (CDs). Hard copy is acceptable but must be rekeyed so electronic submission is preferred. All submissions are subject to editing for length, clarity and content. Every effort is made to retain the facts without changing the meaning or thrust of the article. Illustrations The most effective way to transmit illustrations is electronical - ly. They should be TIF or JPEG, preferably scanned at 300 dpi but no less than 150 dpi. They can be sent on CD and we can retrieve copy and illustrations from electronic copy if provided 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. Con - Figure 1 nor Road, Valleyford WA 99036. The telephone number is 509-991- Note endorsement, “Via Trans-Pacific Air to Manila, then ship 5376. mail to Hong Kong” in lower left.
PAGE 124 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2013 PAGE 125 1935 (Crampon #37). The cover flew as far as Manila then went by sur - face from Manila to Hong Kong, as did all this mail. It has a routing stamp of Manila, November 29, 1935 and a Hong Kong receiver on the front of December 5, 1935 in addition to the green first flight cachet (leg to Manila).
Figure 3 This cover was prepared by Amon Carter, publicity director of Pan American Airways at the time (and a passenger). Cover went sur - face from Hong Kong to Manila.
Figure 2 Cover posted at 75c rate. It traveled from Manila to Hong Kong by surface. Note “By ordinary means from Manila” endorsement at lower left.
The cover in Figure 2 was posted from New York to Hong Kong on December 5, 1935. It has only one backstamp, a Hong Kong receiving stamp of December 20, 1935. Looking carefully at the records this means it was carried on the maiden flight of the Philippine Clipper (Crampon #39), the second Pan Am flying boat to enter FAM 14 service. Like the Figure 4 China Clipper, it was another Martin M-130. Cover traveled from Hong Kong to Manila by surface. An example of return service is shown in Figure 3. It was posted PAGE 126 AIRPOST JOURNAL MARCH 2013 PAGE 127 by Amon Carter from Hong Kong on October 26, 1936 to Culver, Indiana on the first revenue passenger flight of FAM 14 (Crampon #46). The cor - American rect Hong Kong rate for this sea-air service to the U.S. was $4.20 and the cover, being a bit philatelic (Carter was publicity director for Pan Ameri - Air Mail Society can Airways at the time), is overfranked just a bit at $4.24 primarily by using blocks of four of lower denomination Hong Kong stamps. This Dedicated to the research, study, documentation and cover has one routing stamp on the reverse of San Francisco, November preservation of aerophilately. 4, 1936. The cover shown in Figure 4 was posted from Hong Kong to Organized in 1923, Incorporated in 1944 as a non-profit corporation of Washington, D.C. on February 1, 1937. The correct $4.20 rate was applied the state of Ohio for air service from Manila to the U.S., then 20c additional was added to IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit organization APS affiliate #77 cover registration, resulting in franking of $4.40. This cover has routing stamps of Honolulu, February 12 and Washington, D.C. February 16 and PRESIDENT: Jim Graue, 11911 East Connor Road, Valleyford WA 99036 17, 1937, on the reverse. This flight was part of the now-routine FAM 14 ([email protected]) service and therefore has no Crampon number. VICE PRESIDENT: K. David Steidley, Ph.D., 11 Davey Dr., W. Orange With the advent of through service to Hong Kong in April 1937, NJ 07052 ([email protected] ) the rates were reduced in both directions: US westbound rates dropped to 70c to Hong Kong and beyond, and eastbound rates from Hong Kong SECRETARY: Dr. Robert Dille, 335 Merkle Drive, Norman OK 73069- to the U.S.A. dropped to $2.80. Mail from this short time period, from 6429 ([email protected]) November 1935 to April 1937, remains elusive and desirable, and make - worthy additions to any Pan Am collection. TREASURER: Stephen Reinhard, P.O. Box 110, Mineola NY 11501 ([email protected]) Reference: Crampon, L.J., Aerophilatelic Flights Hawaii & Central Pacific 1913- IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT: Mark Banchik, P.O. Box 2125, Great 1946, Hawaiian Philatelic Society, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1980. Neck NY 11022 ([email protected])
DIRECTORS AT LARGE: Exhibit Pages Missing David Crotty Pat Walters AAMS member Don David Price reports that two double-pages Jerry Kasper Kent Kobersteen from his "Jenny" airmail exhibit went missing during transport to the APS Show in Louisville, Kentucky prior to the opening of the January 18, ADVISORY EXECUTIVE BOARD (Past Presidents): 2013 event. One was the title page, the other a page with four official Cheryl Ganz Jonathan L. Johnson, Jr. Stephen Reinhard flight covers -- stamps from the first printing. A.D. Jones Kendall C. Sanford Allen Klein The pages contain the arrow block of four of the "grounded Derrick Pillage Greg Schmidt Mark Banchik plane" stamp from the third Discovery sheet and the Official Post Office Andrew McFarlane Announcement (dated May 9, 1918), "Special Stamp for Aeroplane Mail.” Anyone with information concerning the location of these pages is asked to contact American Philatelic Society executive director Ken Application for Membership Martin at [email protected]. Applicant to provide two references, philatelic preferred. Applicants under the age of 18 must be guaranteed by parent or guardian.
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