Differences In Handling Of WWII Military Mail

Here are three APO covers from World War II. Since all are APO San Francisco, am assuming they are all from the Pacific front.

The first, from a Corporal, with an APO date stamp of JUN 29 1945 has been opened, stamped "passed," and signed by the examiner:



The second, from another Corporal, has an APO CDS of AUG 29 1945. That's approximately two weeks after the war's end in the Pacific. It is stamped "passed" but is unsigned and was never opened. No need, I would guess:



The third, from a Captain has an APO CDS of APR 7 1945, more than four months prior to the war's end and was neither opened nor has the "passed" stamp but bears the Captain's own signature where the examiner would normally sign which makes me wonder if the mail of officers was exempt from censorship. Would anyone here, know?

Interesting History Modern

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Dianne

I have a bunch of "blue mail"...
War Dept Form 911. Blue envelopes they provided soldiers.
I don't think they were required to use these envelopes,
otherwise you would only see these. Maybe only certain
units used these? There must have been a reason... I
suppose that reason could be as simple as "I ain't got
no envelope, so they gave me one.".