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Onward Air Transport
(OAT)
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1945
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The marking Onward Air
Transmission, O.A.T., was used on mail during and just after World War II
by the Allied Air Transportation Service. Because the Faroes had no
air mail service and all letters had to be forwarded from the Faroes using
surface transportation, letters that were intended to be forwarded by air
were banded together and the top letter in the stack was stamped O.A.T.
At the first destination where air service was available, the letters were
unbundled and sent via air to their destination.
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This particular registered cover
from Thorshavn was postmarked 17 March 1945. It was stamped O.A.T. and
hand written Avis de réception, A.R., to signify its delivery by air
to New York. Despite the variety of stamps on the cover, the cover
is correctly franked with 280 øre (40 øre per 20 grams – 80
øre total for 40 grams, plus 2x the airmail surcharge of 85 øre
per 20 grams – 170 øre total, plus 30 øre registration fee).
The front of the cover contains a blue British Air Mail Label that was used
to indicate air transport and was available at the major post offices in the
Faroes during 1945. The cover was censored by Examiner 4357 on the
left using P.C.90 British Censor Tape. The cover arrived in New York
on 4 April 1946, a transit time by air of 18 days, and was backstamped by
the New York Registry Division. It was then sent to the Church Street
Registry Division, the local post office that serviced the Nassau street address
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1945
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Cover franked with
6 Belgium Overrun Country issues mailed from Jacksonville, Florida, on 27
December 1945 to Thorshavn, Faroe Islands via England. This cover
is stamped with a boxed OAT as the final leg of the journey from England
to the Faroes was by ship.
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