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Hi Rob
Very impressive, hope you find it before I do. LOL
Seriously though, too specialised for me.
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Hi Horamakhet
It is an impressive overprint on cover. You have a few stamps that I do not have, and quite scarce at that. I'm going to email you about that brown KGV stamp of yours tonight.
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That's a great cover! The postwar occupation of Japan has always interested me, but I've only got one or two philatelic covers postmarked on the day of Japan's surrender.
Over two years in 1963-1965, I served two years at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan. Yokosuka had been the main base of the Japanese navy; in July, 1945 American bombs lightly damaged the battleship Nagano and sank a few smaller ships, but apparently the shore installations escaped damage. It was clear that the base been on a war footing: the peninsula it was built on was a honeycomb of tunnels. With the Japanese surrender, the U.S. Navy took over the base; I worked in several departments of the hospital, which apparently was little changed. The Japanese surrender on board U.S.S. Missouri took place just offshore at Yokosuka.
Among war reparations was a 12-metre sailing yacht that had belonged to the admiral who commanded the base. The Navy turned it over to Special Services for the use of sailors on liberty. I went out with a group of other corpsmen who were more knowledgeable about sailing than I — I'd grown up in New Mexico, which has little open water and fewer sailboats! I handled the jib sheet, which I thought was going to pull my arms right off — the jib on that yacht was probably had twice the area of the mainsail on the Mirror Dingy that I built and sailed several years later.
I saw little evidence of the war during my two years in Japan. Early in my tour of duty I met a Japanese co-ed, Itsuyo Suzuki, who invited me to her home in Hamamatsu City, in south-central Honshu. Her father gave me a "tour" of their small garden, and showed me a large, jagged chunk of steel — shrapnel from an American bomb that had exploded in the garden. I don't think he was pleased that his daughter was dating an American!
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Hi Bob
Sorry for not responding earlier, your story is fascinating to say the least, and what you saw and experienced while being stationed at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan is something I would have loved to see myself, I have a friend who lives in Gifu.
That bomb landing in the garden no doubt didn't help with his plants, but to still have that massive chunk of shrapnel is a major reminder of the conflict between Japan and the Allied forces.
I don't know if his displeasure was just of an American dating his daughter, or he may have first thought it was an American that blew up his prized garden and left a big chunk of metal in its place, and now an American is dating his daughter.
You mentioned that you have 2 Philatelic covers postmarked on the day of Japan's surrender, now that is something to see, and naturally of great historical importance.
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A new addition to my B.C.O.F. collection. Only 2 are known to exist, I'm hunting down the other.
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Hi Rob
Very impressive, hope you find it before I do. LOL
Seriously though, too specialised for me.
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Hi Horamakhet
It is an impressive overprint on cover. You have a few stamps that I do not have, and quite scarce at that. I'm going to email you about that brown KGV stamp of yours tonight.
Rob
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re: B.C.O.F. Double Overprint on cover
That's a great cover! The postwar occupation of Japan has always interested me, but I've only got one or two philatelic covers postmarked on the day of Japan's surrender.
Over two years in 1963-1965, I served two years at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan. Yokosuka had been the main base of the Japanese navy; in July, 1945 American bombs lightly damaged the battleship Nagano and sank a few smaller ships, but apparently the shore installations escaped damage. It was clear that the base been on a war footing: the peninsula it was built on was a honeycomb of tunnels. With the Japanese surrender, the U.S. Navy took over the base; I worked in several departments of the hospital, which apparently was little changed. The Japanese surrender on board U.S.S. Missouri took place just offshore at Yokosuka.
Among war reparations was a 12-metre sailing yacht that had belonged to the admiral who commanded the base. The Navy turned it over to Special Services for the use of sailors on liberty. I went out with a group of other corpsmen who were more knowledgeable about sailing than I — I'd grown up in New Mexico, which has little open water and fewer sailboats! I handled the jib sheet, which I thought was going to pull my arms right off — the jib on that yacht was probably had twice the area of the mainsail on the Mirror Dingy that I built and sailed several years later.
I saw little evidence of the war during my two years in Japan. Early in my tour of duty I met a Japanese co-ed, Itsuyo Suzuki, who invited me to her home in Hamamatsu City, in south-central Honshu. Her father gave me a "tour" of their small garden, and showed me a large, jagged chunk of steel — shrapnel from an American bomb that had exploded in the garden. I don't think he was pleased that his daughter was dating an American!
Bob
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Hi Bob
Sorry for not responding earlier, your story is fascinating to say the least, and what you saw and experienced while being stationed at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan is something I would have loved to see myself, I have a friend who lives in Gifu.
That bomb landing in the garden no doubt didn't help with his plants, but to still have that massive chunk of shrapnel is a major reminder of the conflict between Japan and the Allied forces.
I don't know if his displeasure was just of an American dating his daughter, or he may have first thought it was an American that blew up his prized garden and left a big chunk of metal in its place, and now an American is dating his daughter.
You mentioned that you have 2 Philatelic covers postmarked on the day of Japan's surrender, now that is something to see, and naturally of great historical importance.
Rob
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