Claude
This is a USPS postal card featuring a cachet with printed text 'World at War – America Strikes Back' and 'Doolittle's Raid on Tokyo,' with a hand-stamped black illustration of a B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft. The stamp is a USA 19-cent stamped card design featuring a stylized American flag in red, white, and blue. The cancellation is a pictorial/show cancel from Linncopex Station, Albany, OR 97321, dated May 3, 1992, applied in black ink. The card is in excellent condition with no visible creases or soiling.
Mistral
This First Day Cover features a 19-cent USPS postal card with a bold cachet design commemorating Doolittle's Raid on Tokyo during World War II. The cachet includes the text 'World at War – America Strikes Back' and 'Doolittle's Raid on Tokyo' along with an illustration of a B-25 Mitchell bomber flying in front of a waving American flag. The postmark is a pictorial cancellation from Linncopex Station in Albany, Oregon, dated May 3, 1992. The cover is in excellent condition.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
