The Aaao Overprint On Great Britian, Fake Stamps /Cinderella Stamps

Here is a interesting page in my collection which people in the future will be puzzled about, I found no direct explanation of these on the internet and are to recent for stamp publications .

Floortrader, that is interesting. I can not read the overprints, the picture is too far out of focus. Anyway possible to scan the five different overprints? I'd love to see them.

Peter

Series 3, "AAAO", over the following demotivating texts, to be dropped on allied troops in Normandy

"AAAO" is the acronym for "Allied Army Amphibian Operation". Some of the overprints end in a large punctuation mark on a separate line, as shown. The overprints are in red on the ½d and 2½d.

73-78 "BUT WHO WILL RETURN ?" (4 lines)
79-84 "ON ORDER OF STALIN !" (6 lines)
85-90 "ENGLAND BLEEDS ON THE ORDER OF MOSCOW" (5 lines)
91-96 "COME ON GERMANY EXPECTS YOU !" (5 lines)
97-102 "ENGLAND HAS LOST THE WAR" (4 lines)
103-108 "A MILITARY ADVENTURE !" (4 lines)

http://www.gbos.org.uk/index.php/Country_List/45

Genuine German forgeries (if you see what I mean) had AAAO and a series of messages underneath and were intended to be dropped on Allied troops landing in Normandy in June 1944. In this case the AAAO meant Allied Army Amphibian Operation. Other stamps in the German propaganda series of forged stamps were canceled by a faked London CDS "London / A A A O/-6 June/44 Special-Stamp" again referring to the the 6th June Normandy landing during the Allied Army Amphibian Operation started on that date.

Edit to say "SNAP"... as above.

Darn ! Correction---I need to rewrite my page -- ,there was a article about this "AAA-0" in the American Philatelist ,August 1969 . Thanks to a APS member who e-mailed me .

Thanks for the additional information and link ,I will be rewriting the page . Here is a better scan.

Amphibian? They must be referring to the French. (Wink.)

Just to make it clear ,it is not a "O" in AAAO but a zero as in AAA0 ,but in my title I used the AAAO to make a search easier if someone is looking to identify the overprint for the first time .

Very interesting overprints!
'...to be dropped...'
Anyone knows if some of these stamps were actually ever dropped as intended?

Rommel preferred bombs. (Wink.)

..."Anyone knows if some of these stamps were actually ever dropped as intended?"
The propaganda stamps were printed and prepared without gum as it was thought that the "drop" would make them stick together as well as any wet ground doing the same. They were distributed to agents in neutral countries such as Sweden etc who promptly sold them to dealers and so they got to the attention of the UPU... so much for secrecy!


Forgot to add..."So, that's a NO... they were not dropped"

KGB -

scotzm - fascinating, thanks

Please note that my comments refer to the original propaganda stamps printed around 1943. The original post did state that the stamps illustrated were modern fakes so would differ in detail, such as the AAA0, to the "original" fakes