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Auction: 15023 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2519

Crash and Wreck Mail
Crash Covers
1945 (12 Nov.) envelope from Paloalto to the Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, bearing 8c. air franking, marked "LST 1016" and, on route to its new destination, burnt around the edges and with printed label, "air mail center/guam/the enclosed mail was salvaged/from a tag crash on Tinian/7 January, 1946./n. a. davis/ens., usnr./officer in charge". Unusual and not listed by Nierinck

Mail plane crash on 7 January, 1946; a Transport Air Group C-46 plane (Trip 1000) en route from Saipan to Guam, crashed on the runway at Tinian.

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£40