Mailed from U.S. Marine Corps #820 via normal mail (?), cancelled Santo 2 October 1942 on a French 10c stamp (normal rate would have been 30c) with PCH type 38. (Priester coll.)

US 6c Air Mail stamp on cover mailed in Espiritu Santo by a member of U.S. Naval Base Hospital #3, Navy 140, Naval censor mark, postmark with slogan "TOJO LOOK OUT" not listed in Jersey's book. (Treadwell coll.)

Unusual cover from Espiritu Santo to Sydney. The 5c.or and 10c.or France Libre stamps tied by a double circle U.S. NAVY cachet type Jersey 18 but with a three bar killer postmark. On front a circular cachet PASSED BY NAVAL CENSOR in violet . ("SeSi" coll)

Local use : letter from NAVY DEPARTMENT / US NAVAL BASE HOSPITAL 3 / NAVY 140 / OFFICIAL BUSINESS to Base supply depot Wharehouse 19 NAVY 140 on Segond Channel Espiritu Santo.
On top right PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE TO AVOID / PAYMENT OF POSTAGE $300. Machine cancel US NAVY / BH-3 / OCT / 23 /1943 with slogan NO PEACE / FOR TOJO (unrecorded Jersey type 20). Censor signature without cachet, sealing by brown paper at right. ("SeSi" coll)

Incoming mail possibly as #706 was in Guadalcanal as far as I know and #140 in Santo. I guess that James A Michener had a quiet job at the Supply Depot so he had time to write his "Tales of the South Pacific". (Klinger coll.)

Incoming military mail is not very often seen: this is a special one! The included notice says that this letter was recovered from a crashed plane at Segond Channel, Santo. Maybe this was a Catalina, a Wing Commander and a dozen more people died in this crash. (Treadwell coll.)

26 July 1944

Censored New Hebrides postcard "Matelots de la Réserve Navale" to Fletcher North Carolina, USA.
The US 6 cents stamp paid the military ail mail rate, tied by a Navy four bar killer postmark without a particular post office (APO) number assigned to it.
This postmark was used by the 550th CBMU (Naval Construction Maintenance Unit - "CB" stands for "Construimus, Batuimus") which was based on Efate from January 1944 to late December 1944.
Circular " Passed by naval censor " cachet in blue. This is one of these low quality postcards with very heavy paper produced in about 1940. ("SeSi" coll.)

25 July 1944

Censored New Hebrides postcard "Village indigène de l'Ilôt Vila" to Fletcher North Carolina, USA. "Vila" striked out and is wrong by the way as Vila is the city and not an island.
The US 6 cents stamp paid the military ail mail rate, tied by a Navy four bar killer postmark without a particular post office (APO) number assigned to it.
This postmark was used by the 550th CBMU (Naval Construction Maintenance Unit - "CB" stands for "Construimus, Batuimus") which was based on Efate from January 1944 to late December 1944.
Circular " Passed by naval censor " cachet in blue. This is another one of these low quality postcards with very heavy paper produced in about 1940. ("SeSi" coll.)

31 July 1944

US 6c Air postal cover mailed at Luganville airfield (Santo, New Hebrides) by a member of the Marine's Air Group 11 Marine Fighter Sqadron 312 (VMF 312). Naval censor mark, postmark not listed in Jersey's book. (Treadwell coll.)

US 6c Air postal cover mailed at Navy FPO 140 in Santo. Cancelled with Jersey type 31. (Klinger coll.)

Everything was possible in the WWII New Hebrides: US 6c Air stamp with PCH type 11 cancel. It could have been on a cover to the U.S.A. and prepaid the inner U.S: Air Mail. (Mele coll.)