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Title: Camp Lee Virginia 1945
Post by: Peter Gassmann on April 03, 2021, 04:32:55 PM
Hello All

I have here a nice cover from Haiti sent to Camp Lee, Virginia, from 1945. Apparently a military camp for training of Quartermasters in WW2. The censorship (Haiti und US) looks civil to me.

Question: Was there any incoming military censorship in the US at this time? or would the military censor accept the civil censor label?

best wishes, Peter
Title: Re: Camp Lee Virginia 1945
Post by: Peter Harvey on April 04, 2021, 07:20:55 PM
Hi Peter,

As you state correctly, civilian censorship both from Haiti and the U.S. personally I don't like the cellphone labels, they often come away and has little detail, unless there was a cachet with them.

I do not think there was any requirements for military censorship on this cover. It was inbound from a civilian address, so censorship would be a civil, rather than military matter.

Interesting that the cellophane label is tied by a signature, more unusual.

Peter H
Title: Re: Camp Lee Virginia 1945
Post by: Peter Gassmann on April 04, 2021, 08:48:21 PM
Peter, thanks for your comments!