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Postal History of Operation Tabarin, 1944 ~ 1945

OFFICIAL MAIL
Official mail, for retention by British Government, was posted on the opening day of each new Base Post Office

SOUTH SHETLANDS
1944 Base B, South Shetlands Post Office re-opened at Deception Island on 5 February 1944

1944 Official Cover, 3d UPU rate, posted from Base B, South Shetlands on 5 February 1944,
Taken by SS Fitzroy departing on 6 February with the first Tabarin mail, docking Stanley on 29 February
Despatched on 6 March aboard SS Fitzroy to Montevideo, for onward transport to a South American address,

the British Naval Attaché, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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