Claude
The cachet features a black-and-white illustration of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin 'EXTRA' newspaper front page with the headline 'JAPANESE AT MIDWAY SMASHED,' depicting a historic WWII newspaper. Below the cachet art is printed text explaining that on June 4, 1942, Americans won the Battle of Midway after U.S. intelligence broke Japan's naval code, with a bold footer reading 'Midway: Turning point in Pacific naval war.' The stamp is a 29-cent USA stamp depicting Allied forces landing in North Africa in November 1942, and the circular date cancel reads Indianapolis, IN, August 17, 1992.
(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)
