Wartime First Flight cover honoring the Royal Dutch Air Lines

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20039711

Description

First Flight Dutch over on the opening of the Royal Dutch Air Lines route from Willemstad, Curacao and Oranjestad, Aruba to Miami, Florida. The cover carries the Dutch censor stamp. It is franked with the 1943 35-cent air mail stamp with the postmark of Willemstad, Curacao. This photograph was published in the August 29, 1943 morning edition of the Star-Telegram.

Archival Date

1943-08-21

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-941

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

Rights

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License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Subjects

First day covers; Royal Dutch Air Lines