Up for auction is an beautiful censored postcard cover from Port Arthur, USA to US seaman first class Clyde White who was captured on Wake Island by the Japanese army and then interned at the POW camp in Japan. Prisoner of War.  Dated August 2, 1944. Priced to sell. Nice postal history cover.

Exceptionally rare piece of postal history.


Seaman Second Class Clyde White (NSN: 3604537), United States Navy, was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Wake Island on 23 December 1941, and was held as a Prisoner of War until returned to U.S. Military control at the end of the war.

General Orders: NARA Database: Records of World War II Prisoners of War, created, 1942 - 1947

Action Date: December 23, 1941 - 1945

Service: Navy

Rank: Seaman Second Class

Division: Prisoner of War (Japan)


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