Cover Calendar For Month And Day -Pics

Good morning, five for today.

Ukiah,



Briceland, Registered



Fort Bragg, an Ellen Clapsaddle card!





Melburne,



and Bulwinkle.

June 28

1943 - A.P.O. #25 to Milwaukee, WI




The letter made it home, but it was 1943. Did he? That is what I wondered.

1939 - Castle Bruce, Dominica to Grimsby, England




Roger Wells, in pursuit of smaller post offices on Dominica. Thank you, Roger.

1956 - Road Town, Tortola to Toronto, Canada


William Butler secures another mixed franking of Leeward Islands stamps via surface registered letter.

Good day, three today.

Point Arena,



Eureka & S. F. RPO, something about the gold star, the cute little Union Pacific sticker or the lack of any message makes me think PHILATELIC.



and Boonville.

re APO 25 to Milwaukee:

He survived.

The National Archives and Records Administration website look-up for Army enlistments has his serial number identified more fully as Max E Kwiatkowski of Milwaukee, WI born 1908, etc.
https://aad.archives.gov/aad/displa...0&txt_24983=

The Find A Grave website shows an apparent match for him living 1908-1979:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial...-kwiatkowski

An additional interesting note to this cover is the circled "7" after Milwaukee. This is the Zone number copied from Boston's 1920-era Zone system and implemented nationwide in May 1943 in about 125 U.S. large cities to help mail sorting during wartime when many mail clerks had been drafted. A June 1943 cover is fairly early to find it in use and why it is specifically worthy to point out here.
When Zip Codes were introduced in 1963, 3 leading digits were added along with an extra space-filling "0" to make a 5-digit number. Even today, Google maps shows the 2833 S Burrell St address with a Zip Code of 53207 a direct connection back to 1943.