Cabanatuan
Military Prisoner of War Camp #1
Nueva Ecija
Province
Mail routed
in error by some post offices in the United States to receiving centers
for mail addressed to Prisoners confined to German POW camps. All known
covers with this "Ag" marking are dated in October and November 1943.
The "A" within
the circular frame stands for "ABWEHR" (Military Intelligence) and the
"g" indicated that the mark was applied in Vienna, Austria (then part of
the Third Reich).
1943 OCTOBER
31: MAGNUM, OKLAHOMA to the PHILIPPINES
Directed to
Cabanatuan per manuscript "Cab" endorsement in pencil.
1943
NOVEMBER 13:
CRYSTAL
RIVER, FLORIDA to PHILIPPINES
To Camp #1
Philippines. Even though the cover was addressed to the Philippine Islands,
it actually was not delivered there. The markings on the cover "5-B' in
blue, and the red receiving mark on the reverse are from Camp 5-B (Niigata)
in Japan. Private Stanaland was transferred to Japan, and when the mail
arrived from Germany the Japanese authorities would have checked his whereabouts
and re-directed to the appropriate camp.
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