Battle of Midway & Aleutian Islands Campaign, 1942

The cachet features a black-and-white newspaper front page design from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin Extra with the headline 'JAPANESE SMASHED AT MIDWAY' along with subheadlines about enemy damage and U.S. injuries. Below the artwork, explanatory text describes the American victory at Midway on June 4…
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This FDC features a striking black-and-white newspaper cachet reproducing the Honolulu Star-Bulletin's historic front page announcing the American victory at the Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942. The 29-cent stamp honors Japan's concurrent invasion of the Aleutian Islands in June 1942, part of the WWII series issued in 1991. The cover is postmarked August 17, 1992, in Indianapolis, Indiana, with cachet artwork by Technical Cachets.

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Aug. 17, 1992 Indianapolis, IN, US (46260)

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The cachet features a black-and-white newspaper front page design from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin Extra with the headline 'JAPANESE SMASHED AT MIDWAY' along with subheadlines about enemy damage and U.S. injuries. Below the artwork, explanatory text describes the American victory at Midway on June 4, 1942. The stamp depicts Japan's invasion of the Aleutian Islands in June 1942 (29¢ USA, 1991). The postmark is a pictorial Indiana state-shaped cancel from Indianapolis, dated August 17, 1992.

(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)