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lot # 1612 - usa usa naval forces in greece - postal history (ww1)

Monday Oct 28, 2013 18:00 Europe/Athens

1918,11.02: U.S. NAVY NOV.2.1918 A.M. gray-blue postmark on free of charge corner cover with contents, censored (boxed "U.S. NAVAL FORCES EUROPE, Passed by Censor"), sent to New York. Dateline Oct.27.18 and sender's address "V.S.S. Leonidas, US Naval forces, Base 25, c/o Postmaster N.Y.". 36 sub-chases and one tender (V.S.S. Leonidas) were at the American Bay on Corfu (Base 25) to attempt to confine Austrian submarines to the Adriatic Sea, scarce & F -cover minor faults

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