USA Navy Event Mail c1940-70s 100+ cacheted covers for keel laying, ship visits, missile tests etc, attractive historical lot.

USA 1947 long cover to USA, franked 1945 3c Navy, canc fine "U.S.S. Mount Olympus" duplex d/s FEB 1 1947. At left, fine purple "Operation Highjump / Antarctic Expedition 1946 & 1947 / Task Force 68" pictorial cachet (penguin & ship's anchor). Signed in ink by Rear Admirals R.E. Byrd (Officer in Charge) & R. H. Cruzen (o/c T.F.68), also ship's commander T. R. Vogeley. Printed "MAILED AT LITTLE AMERICA". Very fine.

USA 1956 USS Edisto icebreaker, oceanographer & Operation Deepfreeze cacheted cover, 26 April to NZ.

USA 1960 USS Wilhoite weather picket, Ross Dependency Oceanographic Cruise & Operation Deepfreeze cachets, signed by Commander Mills & AG York N.Z.O.I, 23 Dec to Wellington.

USA 1960 USS Wilhoite weather picket, Ross Dependency Oceanographic Cruise & Operation Deepfreeze cacheted cover, 13 Dec to Wellington.

USA 1928 commem flight PPC (B&W collage of 3 aviators & 3 flags over Milwaukee), franked 1927 10c Lindbergh airmail & 5c Roosevelt, canc Milwaukee 13 May & flight cachet. To Dresden, Germany, with Dresden airport pink receipt cachet. New York transit d/s 14 May. Fine.

USA 1918 Airs set of 3. SG A546-8. (Cat £275 mint). Unused no gum. (Image)

USA 1942 WWII censored air cover to NZ ex NZ naval officer in training at US Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, to his sister in NZ. Franked 1941 30c, 20c Air SG A905-6, canc by the station's machine d/s MAR 12 1942. Censor h/s ties resealing strip. On flap: "L.V.A. L.F. Weatherall (RN), British F.B. U.S. Air Stn., Pensacola, Fla". Good average condition.

USA 1991-5 WWII 50th Anniv sheetlets (5 x 10 diff). SG 2611 etc. Cat £79. MUH.

USA 1995 $10.75 Space Shuttle. SG 3089. Cat £29. FU. (Image)