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Yugoslavia - Postal History (1944-45)
(Illustrated with Stampless Covers)

Cash Franking
Military Mail 
Telegram

More links at bottom of page.

 

Cash Franking

>>  "U gotovu" (in cash) appears in most handstamp and manuscript markings.  <<

Feb. 27, 1945 - Dubrovnik (Croatia) local letter

Boxed Partisan censor handstamp

April 16, 1945 - Široki Brijeg (Bosnia) to Zemun

Manuscript "20.- Kn. zaračunato u gotovom pod / red br. 56"
Postage paid in Croatian currency

May 12, 1945 - Zagreb (local letter)

Manuscript franking

May 25, 1945 - Osijek (Croatia) to Zagreb

Boxed "zaračunato u gotovu - stavka _ Kn_ b_" handstamp
Postage paid in Croatian currency
3-line Osijek military censor handstamp

 June 5, 1945 - Osijek (Croatia) to Zagreb

Manuscript franking in Croatian currency
3-line Osijek military censor handstamp

June 7, 1945 - Požega (Croatia) to Šibenik

"U gotovu" in pencil
Croatian Coat of Arms and country name crossed out
Osijek Military Censor

 June 13, 1945 - Maribor (Slovenia) local letter

Handstamp "Plačano v gotov. Din"
"Din" crossed out, postage paid in German currency
Boxed censor mark front and back

 June 17, 1945 - Senj (Croatia) to Zemun

"U gotovo" in pencil
From a marine commando on the island of Krk,
mailed at the Senj post office on the mainland

June 21, 1945 - Osijek (Croatia) to Skoplje (Macedonia)

Registered (blank label), addressed to fighter pilot
3-line Osijek military censor handstamp

Skoplje arrival cancels

   

June 27 - Military
June 28 - Civil
(Bulgarian Style)

June 22, 1945 - Ljutomer (Slovenia) to Šid

Handstamp "Franko v gotovini / zaračunan pod štev."
No cancel - Ljutomer in pencil
Still addressed to "Slavonia / Croatia"
Boxed "Censurirano / Štev." front and back

 July 3, 1945 - Letter from Split Philatelic Club to Mostar Post Office

Manuscript "U gotovu 6 din / Br. 62" + signature
New bilingual cancel, old Croatian Registry handstamp
Backstamped Mostar, July 6

Budapest(!) to Suza (Bacska), letter dated December 12, 1945

Return address Subotica, letter in Hungarian
No dispatch cancel, probably handcarried from Budapest
Boxed 3-line Beograd censor handstamp front and back

January 1, 1946 Suza arrival cancel

Military Censor Beograd
sealing tape

Croatia to Sofia, Bulgaria (Ministry of Public Education)
Illegible cancels; Sofia backstamp (possibly Dec. 1, 1945)

Boxed 3-line Beograd censor handstamp front and back (2)

 

Military Mail
 

>>  Usually endorsed "vojna pošta"  <<

March 18, 1945 - Zupćin to Konak (Banat)

Date error "44" in cancellation
Boxed 3-line Military Censor Zemun censor handstamp

March 24
 Konak
backstamp

April 22, 1945 - Beograd to Subotica (Bacska)

Soldier's Letter with unit cachet
Boxed 2-line military censor handstamp

June(?) 9, 1945 - Bilingual fieldpost cancel 18032
(Enclosed letter dated May 4, 1945)
 

2-line boxed censor handstamp

May 10, 1945 - Požega (Croatia) to XVIII Attack Brigade

June(!) 21 Varaždin transit cancel, returned to sender
3-line Požega military censor handstamp, with star

Unit cachet of the
XVIII Attack Brigade

 Letter dated May 22, 1945 from Partisan unit near Leibnitz, Austria

June 12 - cancelled on arrival in Aleksinac
Niš censor mark and Military Censor tape

Kaštel Lukšić Marine Base (Croatia) to Zemun, card dated June 3, 1945

Soldier's Free Frank
Boxed 2-line censor handstamp

June 26, 1945 - Beograd to military address in Slovenia

Boxed 3-line Beograd censor handstamp front and back


Military Censor Beograd
sealing tape

 

July 4, 1945 - Sombor (Bacska) to Skoplje (Macedonia)

Picture Post Card, addressed to a fighter pilot
Boxed, 2-line Sombor censor handstamp

Sisak (Croatia) to Zagreb, letter dated July 14 (1945)

From Hospital Unit of 16th Youth Brigade, 34th Division
3-line Sisak military censor handstamp front and back

July 15, 1945 - Crikvenica (Croatia) to Zagreb

Picture post card from an Army captain
Boxed censor handstamp with star

July 26, 1945 - Križe na Gor (Slovenia) to Novi Sad

To a lieutenant in the 3rd Yugoslav Army

July 30, 1945 - Maribor (Slovenia) to Sombor

"vojna pošta" in pencil
Boxed censor mark

August 11, 1945 - Zabreb to Kruševac (Serbia)
Bilingual arrival cancel Aug. 13, 1945


Propaganda Unit Cachet - Croatian National Defense Division
Slogan "death to facism & freedom to the people"

 

Telegram

October 26, 1945 - Zagreb local telegram

Croatian coat-of-arms overprinted with star
Army Hospital Arrival Stamp

 

Cash Franking Military Mail Telegram

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