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Postal History of Operation Tabarin, 1944 ~ 1945

EXPEDITION MAIL from BASE B, SOUTH SHETLANDS
UPU CENSORED MAIL

1945 Cover to USA, datestamp B3, 28 JAN 1945, UK transit Censor marking PC90 type “EXAMINED 1066”
Taken by Sir William Scoresby on 31 JA 45, Stanley transit PS.3, 16 FE 45, pencil receipt (US) date ‘4-10-45’

1945 Cover, datestamp SS.B3, 12 MAR 1945; Sender: Sub Lieut. AW Reece RNVR, Base Leader, Meteorologist &
Censor, marking: RN Tombstone, 12/ 3(/45) to Chile [Valparaiso transit & Iquique arrival, 13 February 1946]
Final relief voyage, ex Stanley 11 April aborted, bad weather, (cover delayed and over-wintered 1945 -46)
Eventual collection by SS Fitzroy (next season’s first voyage), returning Stanley, 22 January 1946,
continuing outbound on 24 January for Punta Arenas, Chile, whence onward northbound transmission
A commercial, censored example of foreign rate Operation Tabarin mail is one of the rarest rates

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