1944 airmail to American airforce serviceman "F/O Leebert W McFarland T-61972, American Internee, Camp Maloney, Abelboden [sic]" held in Switzerland endorsed "PRISONER OF WAR MAIL" with Prexies 10c & 12c and 8c Transport tied 'KEY WEST/AUG 3/1944/FLA' cancels paying 30c airmail rate for carriage by PanAm FAM-18 Atlantic Clipper service to Europe, censored with US tape and again in Germany with Berlin label & cachet on back, released with Swiss boxed 'Zuzustellen/Feldpostdirektion' cachet in red on face.

Camp Maloney was the name given to the part of Adelboden that housed American airmen shot down over Germany who had managed to fly their damaged planes to Switzerland, where the crew were interned for the remainder of WWII. Located in the Alps south of Berne, Adelboden was a summer resort and its hotels were used to house the internees. The 'Camp' was named after Sgt Joseph Maloney, a ball-turret gunner on a B-17 that crashed into Lake Constance, making him the first US airman to die in Switzerland.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

AMERICAN SAMOA: 1945 (Jan 24) cover to Massachusetts with 'VIA AIR MAIL' indicia endorsed "from Honolulu" and franked Prexies 10c Tyler pair - paying for airmail carriage from Hawaii to US and internally only - tied 'PAGO PAGO/SAMOA' cancel, censored with brown tape tied 'PASSED BY CENSOR/American/Samoa' on face, couple of minor edge faults.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

BIKINI ATOLL ATOMIC BOMB TEST: 1946 (July 1) 6c Airmail Envelope with printed 'CARRIED ON ATOM BOMBING PLANE "A" DAY - BIKINI, MARSHALL ISLANDS', to Papua (!) with 'US/ 824 /NAVY' cancel & "R Brewster, Task Unit 1.52, Kwajalein" return address, minor blemishes. [The first post-WWII atomic test was conducted on 1.7.1946 when the bomb 'Able' was dropped over Bikini Atoll by a B-17 Flying Fortress operating from the US airbase on Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Batch of postcards & postal stationery with views the same as those used for the scenic Letter Cards, generally fine to very fine unused or used. (30)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$350

Photograph (86x84mm) of Samuel Reading & his wife, pencilled note on reverse states "Only three copies in existence". [Samuel Reading was the 'artist' for the Fullface design &, more successfully, the engraver of the Kangaroo & Map design]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$50