MILITARY POSTAL HISTORY SOCIETY

Bulletin for 2004

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WINTER 2004 - Vol 43 No 1

MAIL OF THE AEF TO FOREIGN DESTINATIONS

Iwo Jima Flag Raising

Picture postcard of Podgiritza sent by one of the small group of Americans sent to Montenegro at the end of the war. Addressed to Douglas on the Isle of Man, it went by military pouch to Paris, where it entered the mail stream (probably at APO 975).

Other articles in this issue are:

  • Exchanged Jewish POWs
  • APO/FPO Openings/Closings
  • Korean War Navy Cover Album
  • Last Liberty Ship
  • Mail From AEF to Foreign Destinations
  • Military Operations Since 1993
  • Military Post Office Contingency APO Locations
  • Operation Iraqi Freedon Continues
  • Stand by To Ram
  • Stars and Strife — Carole Lombard
  • Philatelic Militaria

The issue includes a number of news columns, Classified Ads, several book reviews, show reports, and articles of current Society business news.

SPRING 2004 - Vol 43 No 2

THE HOLLANDIA RAIDS ....

Operation Iraqi Freedom

Cover from 90th Bomber Squadron, 3rd Bomber Group (B-25s), sent in 1943 (month missing from the American Base Forces postamark). Return address APO 929, Port Morsby, New Guinea.

Other articles in this issue are:

  • APO/FPO Openings/Closings
  • Auction: Sale # 174
  • British Military College of Science
  • Holandia Raids, April 1944
  • Mail From Foreign Senders to APOs
  • National World War II Memorial Dedicated
  • Operation Overlord Picture Review
  • Provisions for Feild Postal Service in the U.S. Army, 1940
  • Sighted Blimps, Sank Same
  • Stars and Strife: The RAF in Southern Rhodesia
  • World War II Soldiers' Mail Regulations

The issue includes a number of news columns, Classified Ads, book reviews, show reports, and articles of current Society business news.

SUMMER 2004 - Vol 43 No 3

RUSSIAN POSTAL ACTIVITY IN PERSIA ...

2003 MRE Mail from Iraq

Picture Postcard (of Tiflis) mailed from Makus to Harbib in 1916
and postmarked "Maku, Russ, Cons."

Other articles in this issue are:

  • NATO Expands
  • AEF Update
  • Allied Air Forces in Palestine 1939-1945
  • Belgian Congo Cover
  • "Enemy Occupied," Finland
  • Iraq Coalition Forces Covers
  • FINALLY! A Knights of Colunbus Registered Cover
  • No Longer Neutral
  • Russian Postal Activity in Persia 1914-1917
  • Stars and Strife - Movie Prop Mail "Windtalkers"
  • Using the Army to Reduce 4th of July Casualties
  • World War II Soldier;s Mail from Red Army

The issue includes a number of news columns, Classified Ads, book reviews, show reports, and articles of current Society business news.

FALL 2004 - Vol 43 No 4

ARMY HOSPITAL SHIPS

Numbered Navy & Marine Corps Post Office Locations

Reverse of Southern Bell picture postcard of USAHS Acadia.

Change of address notice from a private in the 204th Army Hospital Ship Complement, mailed from Port Hamiliton, New York , in Spetember 1945.

Other articles in this issue are:

  • Allied Armies telegraph Censorship WWI
  • Army Hospital Ships of WWII
  • APO/FPO Openings/Closings
  • Auction: Sale # 175
  • Custer's Last Stand
  • First BPO Structures Preserved
  • Knights of Columbus Grave Location Service
  • The Pensacola Convoy
  • Railway Consignee Certificates

The issue includes a number of news columns, Classified Ads, book reviews, show reports, and articles of current Society business news.

Past issues of the Bulletin as well as the index of the War Covers Club and MPHS Bulletin from 1937 to 2004 are available.

Updated: 5 April 2005

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