Soldiers Mail From US Military Hush Hush Operation In Russia Circa 1918s

does this appear to be a genuine "mailed from Siberia" postcard and are they somewhat rare items?



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Yes from the poor image and yes not common. I better illustration of the message side who be nice as for my computer the writing is difficult to make out. The action was not particularly "hush, hush" nor were the operation's stated goals met during the two or so years.

The sending instructions handstamp on the card is somewhat unusual for AEF Siberia. There were just under 8000 military personnel present.

Were older cards brought along? What am I missing?

Parcelpost Guy... thanks for the info. The stamped message reads "I've arrived safely at a Siberian post. Address -Name, Co.&Regiment, A.E.F. Siberia, via San Francisco
The sender writes "Arrived safely an well. Overseas. Address Evacuation Hospital no 17, Presidio San Francisco, California. Mailed to a party in Chilliwick, and followed by what looks like Canada but poorly written. Over the stamp box itself, also in pencil is written "Soldier Mail" in the same hand-writing.
It is postmarked San Francisco, Oct, 8:30 pm, 19?? I read somewhere that it was the practice do not have the soldier identify where in Siberian he was and what was he doing there...thus the hand stamp which only confirmed he had arrived safely.

Reasonably uncommon. The Russian Civil War was, it bears repeating, a total ****show for any nation that dipped a finger into it. 3,000 American in Vladivostok, another 5,000 in Arkhangelsk, 40,000 armed Czechs making their way cross-country, a few hundred Brits, French, and Japanese, Reds, Whites, etc. Nothing secret or "hush hush," though. It makes for a crazy interesting area of philately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameri...rce,_Siberia

Thanks Pillar...just one more instance of my high school history classes more misses than hits.

Theo Van Dam's book "The Postal History of the AEF, 1917-1923" notes that the "The ship I sailed on has arrived safely overseas" cards were completed before sailing and left at the original port until a cable was received from the destination port, then the cards were mailed from the US port.

Thus the cards were not on the ship, nor ever left the US, so impossible for any soldier or sailor to say where they had arrived at, etc. The card in the OP appears to be similar.

Smart.

I've long had an irrational interest in the Czech Legion stamps.