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Post by jamesw on Dec 27, 2013 4:20:38 GMT
Wonder if any of you experts might have some thoughts on this cover. Obviously philatelic in origin, but any other background info you might be able to give me? Always like to make the album pages interesting and informative if I can. Thanks  |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Dec 27, 2013 9:33:33 GMT
Doesn't appear philatelic to me.
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Before Fleet Problem XIV began the following month, the Army and the Navy conducted a joint exercise simulating a carrier attack on Hawaii. Lexington and Saratoga successfully attacked Pearl Harbor at dawn on 31 January without being detected. During the actual fleet problem, the ship successfully attacked targets in and around Los Angeles and San Francisco although she was damaged by opposing ships during the latter attack.[47] Scenes from the 1933 Joe E. Brown film comedy Son of a Sailor were filmed aboard Saratoga and featured flight deck musters of the ships' company.[48] Fleet Problem XV returned to the Gulf of Panama and the Caribbean in April–May 1934; the participating ships of the Pacific Fleet remained in the Caribbean and off the East Coast for more training and maneuvers until they returned to their home bases in November.[1] Captain Kenneth Whiting relieved Zogbaum on 12 June, after the conclusion of the fleet problem.[49]
Captain William F. Halsey assumed command on 6 July 1935 after the conclusion of Fleet Problem XVI.[50] From 27 April to 6 June 1936, she participated in a Fleet Problem in the Panama Canal Zone where she was "sunk" by opposing battlecruisers and later ruled to have been severely damaged by aircraft from Ranger.[51] During Fleet Problem XVIII in 1937, Saratoga, now under the command of naval aviation pioneer John H. Towers, covered an amphibious assault on Midway Atoll and was badly "damaged" by Ranger's aircraft.
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Post by stampgeezer on Dec 27, 2013 20:06:25 GMT
One thing that I always found interesting about the Saratoga, was that despite being damaged by the Japanese several times during WWII she survived to become one of the atomic bomb test targets in 1946. She was not sunk by the first a-bomb, but the 2nd finally sent her to the bottom.
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Post by I.L.S. on Dec 30, 2013 13:15:01 GMT
I really like that James! An honest to goodness usage of this issue is sort of hard to come-by although I'm I'm told it's not rare, I haven't ran across to many in my massive cover searches so you can "do the math" as it were?PLUS it has the selvage still attached. Nice piece!!
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