WORLD WAR II POSTAL HISTORY – 1945

 

6¢ Airmail cover, machine cancel, U.S. Army Postal Service A.P.O. # 237, 08 February 1945,

with Censor stamp (self-censored) bottom left corner.

 

Return address is Paul Lowen, Tech, Rep., 73 Wing Hq. Sq., APO 237, PM San Francisco.

 

At this time APO 237 was the Headquarters Squadron, 73rd Bomber Wing at Saipan, Mariana Islands.

 

There is also a piece of censor tape on the back flap:

 

OPENED BY

U.S. ARMY EXAMINER

 

Posted to E.C. Morrissey, Chandler Evans Corp., Wallingford, Connecticut.

Wallingford is in New Haven County.

 

The Chandler Evans Company designed, manufactured, and sold aircraft engine fuel-control parts

to both civilian and military aircraft manufacturers. Chandler Evans’ aircraft parts

were used in Cyclone engines used by the United States Navy in their DC-3s. 

Howard Hughes operated the Super Electra Lockheed 14 during his historic trip

around the globe, which contained CECO fuel/carburetor controls.

CECO engine parts were also used by the US Army in C-47s and B-25 attack bombers.

The company is now known as Triumph Engine Control Systems.

 

There is a Wallingford receiving marking on the back, Feb 24th 1945.

 

No contents.

 

The stamp (a booklet pane single from C25a) has some perf toning along the top edge.

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