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1942 USA to US Navy Prisoner of War Wake Island Japan POW in China Howard Wilder
$227.50
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AztecCollectables (3048)
Current Bid: $227.50
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Up for auction is an beautiful censored cover from Washington DC, USA to US Navy sailor Howard Clarke Wilder who was captured at Wake Island by the Japanese army and then interned at the POW camp in Shanghai china. Prisoner of War. Postmarked December 30 ... Read More
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- United States
- Stamp Format
- Single
Item Description
Up for auction is an beautiful censored cover from Washington DC, USA to US Navy sailor Howard Clarke Wilder who was captured at Wake Island by the Japanese army and then interned at the POW camp in Shanghai china. Prisoner of War. Postmarked December 30, 1942. Priced to sell. Nice postal history cover.Exceptionally rare piece of postal history. According to his obituary in the Brookings Oregon News:
Howard Clarke Wilder, 76, Gold Beach, died May 8, 2000, at Curry General Hospital.
He was born July 9, 1923, in San Francisco to Frank and Ethel (Clarke) Wilder.
Mr. Wilder was raised and educated in San Jose, Calif., and also attended Los Gatos High School where he graduated in 1940.
He
studied for the opera, played tennis and participated in the Junior
Davis Cup. After graduation, he relocated to Wake Island and later
entered the U.S. Navy.
He was captured and held as a prisoner of
war for approximately four years. He earned the World War II Victory
Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, the American Campaign Medal and
the Prisoner of War Medal.
After his discharge in 1945, he lived in various places around the United States before moving to Los Gatos, Calif.
In
December 1959, he married Nancy Bentley Phelps in Mexico. They moved to
Gold Beach in January 2000 because of health problems.
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will be a flat $2.00 within the continental U.S. for USPS mail. Overseas airmail shipping is $3.00. Questions? Please contact me at: azteccollectables at hotmail.com. Check out my
other online auctions of rare and vintage stamps. My e bay store, Aztec Collectables, has a fine and growing selection of unique covers, stamps and postcards. Please make pay arrangements within 72 hours of winning
the auction. I will combine shipping on multiple wins, if you want combined shipping wait until I invoice you.
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- AztecCollectables (3048)
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- 11/23/2011
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- Florida, United States
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