Lot 51154 – 1918-44, Collection of WWI & WWII US Naval Air Service and Army Post Offices in Ireland, in 3 albums
Lot 51154 – 1918-44, Collection of WWI & WWII US Naval Air Service and Army Post Offices in Ireland, in 3 albums
1918-44, Collection of WWI & WWII US Naval Air Service and Army Post Offices in Ireland in 3 albums, the first album focussing on the 1918-19 US Naval Service (which had 25 stations in Europe with 5 in Ireland), incl. correspondence from sailors from the training camps in the US, censored covers from Queenstown (16, some incl. violet U.S. NAVAL AIR STA. / QUEENSTOWN IRELAND » duplexes with correspondence, plus one cover incoming), Lough Foyle (2, with « US NAVAL AIR STATION / LOUGH FOYLE IRELAND » hs), Pauillac (France) and Southampton, ephemera incl. sports day programme and invitation card at the Air Station in Lough Foyle, bound set of « The Aero Nut » magazine of the US Naval Air Service Troops at Queenstown signed inside by the Commanders and Editors (then follows several pages of photocopies from these magazines), a menu from the forces at Whiddy Island, two photo postcards and a menu/programme for the farewell dance in Rosslare Strand, then 1942-44 US Naval Base at Derry (12 covers), and 130 covers from the various 1942-44 Army Post Offices in Ireland and Northern Ireland, with APO cancels on British, American and free frankings, etc., an interesting lot for the World War specilist
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