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MANILA: 1945 (Oct 1) use of GB formular aerogramme endorsed "Lib UK PW" with the message headed "c/o 3 Australian Repl Co/Manila PI", to GB with 'AUST ARMY PO/241' cds. Rare. [Ted Proud records APO 241 at Hollandia Feb-June 1945, then in Japan from May 1946; Phil Collas record usage at Morotai from Feb 1945 "until late in that year" & in Japan in 1946. Neither mentions usage in the Philippines. The writer states "...We are expecting to leave here very soon for America..."]
GST : † GST on HAMMER for Australian residents only
Symbol : PS
Grade : B
Categories: Stamps & Postal History > COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA > Postal History - World War II - Liberated POWs