8th June Cover of the day Ship to ship mail from the Korean War (2).

[Chris Weddell]

This is my 2nd cover. This cover is posted from the same ship on the same date to the same ship.

The difference of this cover is the UNCF Forces air mail flag cachet used. Has any one ever seen this cachet before ??

[Michael Dobbs]

Hi Chris

Not seen the cachet before and I'm struggeling to find out what UNCF stand for?
Three that I have cone across are clearly not applicable:
- United Nations Cooperation Framework
- United Negro College Fund
- United Nepali Christian Fellowship established in 2000 for Nepalese in Korea

I have now come across another two which could be appropriate:
- United Nations Combined Forces
on this website (it is only mentioned once):
[url=https://news.wttw.com/2016/01/19/examining-north-korea-s-alleged-success-first-h-bomb-test]https://news.wttw.com/2016/01/19/examining-north-korea-s-alleged-success-first-h-bomb-test[/url]

- United Nations Coalition Forces
[url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=313YB9VXIVAC&pg=PT474&lpg=PT474&dq=UNCF+Korean+war&source=bl&ots=egX-4eGV3s&sig=ACfU3U0jnR_dJ5ofQouLBGUQclxOIgddBA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjSjLWqrPPpAhWPTxUIHbDrAvYQ6AEwAXoECBIQAQ#v=onepage&q=UNCF%20Korean%20war&f=false]https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=313YB9VXIVAC&pg=PT474&lpg=PT474&dq=UNCF+Korean+war&source=bl&ots=egX-4eGV3s&sig=ACfU3U0jnR_dJ5ofQouLBGUQclxOIgddBA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjSjLWqrPPpAhWPTxUIHbDrAvYQ6AEwAXoECBIQAQ#v=onepage&q=UNCF%20Korean%20war&f=false[/url]

Both the above are modern references - I haven't seen anything yet from the Korean War era.

Having a re-think it could be United Negro College Fund as that was founded in 1944 and there are plenty of references to it and American servicemen in the Korean War.  They could have produced their own cachet for their members use on mail to be sent home?

What do others think?

Mike  :)

[Chris Grimshaw]

How does "United Nations Combined Force" sound.
Chris