1972 REGISTERED BANGLADESH WAR of INDEPENDENCE, pair of Bangladesh provisional stamps pays the 100p registered letter rate from independence leader Abdul Adhikary, mailed from Sitakunda-Chittagong on JAN19-1972 and addressed "URGENT" to Prime Minister Mujibur Rahman at Dhaka noting an arrival on JAN 21st, this is one month after the Bangladesh Independence victory over Pakistan where over 3,000,000 Bangladesh people were killed, this was also the period of rounding up War Criminals, cover is trimmed LHS, a rare and historic cover and F-VF est ($150+US) (Image)

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35 US NAVY LETTERS 1920-1932, the detailed letters of a sailor's journey from FEB10,1920 on the USS ELLIS at Guantanamo-Cuba to Santiago-Cuba, then on the USS DAVIES to Charleston-SC, on the USS WYOMING back to Cuba in 1925 and onward via the Panama Canal to San Diego, on the USS PROCTON to Hawaii, assigned to the submarine USS BEAVER in 1931 with Asia duty at Manilla and Shanghai, then a stint at the Manila US Naval Hospital, then onwards to Guam and Pearl Harbor in 1933, all the letters are addressed to his wife and son including some drawings of his Navy Diver and Naval gun training, a great correspondence of 21 letters with the accompanying envelopes, retails over $500, F-VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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34 USA WWII SOLDIERS POSTCARDS 1942-1945 (one later), mostly late war soldiers cards posted in Europe, in occupied Germany, and from soldiers that returned to USA bases, includes mailings for Algeria APO-512 and APO-595, UK APO-871, Riems-France APO-513, occupied Berlin APO-513 and APO-742, occupied Frankfurt APO-767, 8 have patriotic label frankings from occupied Munich APO-403, Cairo APO-787, France APO-633, one from a WAC Unit at Pyote-Texas, a card from the Camp Picket-Virginia Medical Battalion, also from the ANSCOL Naval College at Newport-RI, the military hospital APO-121A in France, Italy APO-27, APO-34, and APO-464, lot also has a 1965 card from APO-09016 in Turkey, retails over $320, F-VF est ($50+ US) (Image)

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37 USA WWII PATRIOTIC COVERS 1940-1945 (one later), 28 are postally used noting 5 different 1941 US Marine covers from Iceland, 9 are mint with mostly flag patriotics, retails over $280, mostly VF est ($50+ US) (Image)

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40 BRITISH WWII AIR-LETTERS 1941-1945, Dr. M. Dixon FRPSL mounted exhibition collection extensively annotated, includes both mint and used Airletters noting used originations from British Empire and USA soldiers in India, Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa, the Pacific Fleet, occupied Italy, Greece, Syria ++, good lot retailing over $750, F-VF est ($100+ US) (Image)

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12 GERMAN WWII COVERS & CARDS 1938-1941 (5 postcards), all better noting occupation rates from Luxembourg, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Lotheringen (Lorraine), also note a registered letter from Tyrol and addressed to Hitler, a 1841 UPU 25 DM rate cover from Kassel to USA, retails over $550, VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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70 WORLDWIDE WWII CENSORED COVERS 1939-1947 (a few are WWI), mostly civilian mail from a wide range of European countries noting Switzerland to England, Portugal to Angola, England to Angola, Algeria to Switzerland, also good UPU and airmail rates to USA from Colombia, Chile, Mexico, South Africa, occupied Austria ++, Canada rates from Angola, occupied Austria, Scotland ++, a 1943 registered British cover to USA (written in Czech) with a blackout security cancel, a 1942 USA cover to Yukon with gold mining enclosure, 16 covers are USA soldiers letters including two 1941 Soldiers patriotic covers from US bases in Newfoundland and Trinidad, 9 are earlier unchecked USA and Canada WWI soldiers letters , retails over $550, F-VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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