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1942 airmail cover franked KGVII 3d brown (2) with straight-line 'H.M.A.S. MELVILLE' with 2nd nice strike on provisional registration label, plus two more across flap where also is endorsed by sender 'EC JOHNSON/HMAS PLATYPUS' with 'ARMY POST OFFICE/3JY44/O65' (used at Darwin) transit and Sydney arrival b/s & tombstone naval censor h/s. Use of ships' names was highly irregular & contrary to military regulations. (Platypus was in Darwin Harbour when the Japanese bombed Darwin on 19/2/1942. She re
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- 1 Nov 2026, 17:02
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- 1 Nov 2026, 17:02
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