Win the War

Notice that these eleven stamps are from 1941 to 1944. That’s not much for a four year period, especially during a war – during the U.S. participation in World War II. There is the flag set on the next page that were issued in 1944, once the most of the battles were over, to commemorate the countries that had fallen.

Postage stamps are usually part of promoting a government message, stoking patriotism and national pride. The only encouraging stamp about the war is the one in the middle of the second row that reads, Win the War.

It’s surprising to me that the post office was fairly silent during this time. Maybe they were short handed at the Bureau because of so many people fighting overseas and performing other duties related to the war.

They did, however, issue nine air mail stamps from 1941 (see Twin Transports page). Perhaps they did so because an increase in letters and packages being sent to soldiers in foreign lands.

Note

These seem to be the last time the post office prints the stamps primarily in violet and purple. There’s a green one and a carmine in the middle to mark the change of ink. It’s a silly observation, but one color wears on me.

Contains 11 spots: own 11 – 11 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

Statehood

1.1	✓	903	Vermont Statehood 150th Anniversary	3c (mar 1941) comm., bright violet
2.1	✓	904	Kentucky Statehood 150th Anniversary	3c (jun 1942) comm., violet

Other

2.2	✓	905	American Eagle Win the War	3c (jul 1942) comm., lilac
2.3	✓	906	Republic of China Abraham Lincoln & Sun Yat-sen	5c (jul 1942) comm., bright blue
3.1	✓	908	Freedoms Speach, Religion, etc.	1c (feb 1943) comm., bright blue green
3.2	✓	907	Nations United for Victory	2c (jan 1943) comm., pink carmine

Trans-Continental & Global Connections

4.1	✓	922	First Transcontinental Railroad John McQuarrie	3c (may 1944) comm., violet
4.2	✓	924	First Long-Distance Telegraph 100 Years	3c (may 1944) comm., bright red violet
4.3	✓	923	First Trans-Atlantic Steamship 125 Years	3c (may 1944) comm., violet

Other

5.1	✓	925	Corregidor Island, Philippines Defense Front Against Japan	3c (sep 1944) comm., deep violet
5.2	✓	926	Movies for Military South Pacific	3c (oct 1944) comm., deep violet

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
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