President - West Essex Philatelic Society www.wepsonline.org 02 Feb 2014 11:54:15am
I came across this cover from a lot I won at my local club auction. I never saw this Auxiliary Marking before. It is pretty obvious that it was a letter sent to a soldier in Saipan (APO 244) who was returning home after the war.
Other markings indicate it was returned via air mail special delivery. Maybe the Army's way of letting friends and family know that in this case, that no reply was a good thing, and gets the letter back to the sender before the serviceman arrived home.
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re: Post WWII - Forwarded To: Returning To US
" ..... it was returned via air mail special delivery. Maybe the Army's way of letting friends and family know that in this case, that no reply was a good thing, ...."
That is a nice thought, but I don't think that because the addressee had been transferred to a new station, in this case probably home for discharge, since by December 1945 hostilities had ended, that the level of service paid for would be downgraded to regular mail. The original mailing was AM/SD so that service was paid for and I think expected until it was properly delivered, somewhere.
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