Chile. Wartime air mail from Chile / outbreak of WWII in West: 6 MAY 1940 registered airletter from SANTIAGO to HAIFA, franked 15.10P & tied by 2 strikes of local airmail postmark; as tied by special 10th anniversary (12 May) Air France south-Atlantic flight boxed cachet (on 10 May Germany invaded France & Lowlands; Ar France ceased operations in June), cover carred by Air France on weekly wartime route BUENOS AIRES - MONTEVIDEO - PORTO ALEGRE - SANTOS - RIO DE JANEIRO - SALVADOR - RECIFE - NATAL - DAKAR - PORT ETIENNE - CASABLANCA - TANGIER - TOULOUSE; as cover lacks 3rd country transit marks, probably carried by air to Palestine (by Air France or any carrier with French transit) & as censored by H50 in Haifa (6 months before Sacher's earliest known date of use) cover carried directly to locale; backstamped 26 MY 40 REG HAIFA arrival; slit open at top. Rare route/period, one of Air France's last transatlantic flights before Armistice.

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