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U.S. NAVY AND MARINE CORPS CENSORSHIP
HANDS7AMPS A~b POSTMARKS.

Poster - M-USN 1.

This daier is -the gen_eral iype of dater issued to -the
u.s. Navy consisting of the letters "U. S. 11 at -the top anc1
the word "Navy'' at. the bottom. The whole is enclosed by
a single line circle, '4 mm in diameter, and to the right

o£ the dater are three obli1era-tor bars) ~0-34 mm x 2 mm.
The cen.-l:.r.e of the dater comprises a four line set of plugs,

showing -bhe abbrevia-ted mon-th in three letters, the day,
the -time c~xpressed as either ''A,H~' or "P . M. ' ) and -the year
1
as a ~our figure line.

Whils~ -this d~ier is of the general type, ii has been
recorded on mail from Jamaica af~er the date of the arrival
of -the fleet Post Office on -the island on -the 15th AL1gust,
1942 , and ~his P .P . O.) Number 42, would have dealt with the

'0\ail. subsequently t a. Naval 'Post Office was established

on the i$land, on the 20-t.h Pebruary, 1943, but this office
would have neither postal daters nor censorship hands-tamps,
al1 mail bein~ passed from 1he N.P.O. ~o the P.P.O.

EKD: 19/9/19A2 ~KD~ _25/5/1945