Indochina, International Control Commission, 1957; The International Control Commission was created as a result of the Geneva Accords in order to implement the framework of the agreement that essentially…
Indochina/South East Asia, 1946-1947, War Grave Registration Unit in South East Asia; The history of the U.S. Army War Grave Registration unit goes back to the civil war…
Indochina, Incoming Mail Postal Markings; This section demonstrates postal mail markings that can be found on incoming Indochinese mail. Single franking of an FM perforated 10C French stamp…
On May 10, 1940 Germany invaded France and with such military success that the French Government was forced to sign an armistice with Germany already on June 22nd,…
Indochina, Return of the French to Indochina after World War II; While De Gaulle had initially been rebuffed by the United States in his intention to reclaim colonial…
Indochina, French Military Naval Mail in Indochina during and after World War II; The terrestrial French military postage system was also operational on the high seas. Soldiers could…
Democratic Republic of Vietnam; November 1945/1946; Indochinese stamps with an overprint (Michel Nr. 1-12) After the United States dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th…
The exact date when the second series was issued is not featured in the catalogues. All they state is 1945/1946. The second series is philatelically more interesting as…
Sometimes stamps are offered in auctions that purport to have been prepared for the September 2nd, 1945 Independence Day. The stamps started to appear in the mid 1980’s…
in 1946 the Viet Minh began issuing overprints on Indochinese stamps that had little to do with postal necessities but were more focused on revenue generation. So the…