The Military Postal History Society Quarterly Journal (Bulletin)
NEW Master Index of Bulletins (1937-2022)
Note that the MPHS Board of Directors has voted to rename our quarterly publication to The Military Postal History Society Journal, as of 1 January 2025. Over time, we will be using the new term Journal and removing the previous title: Bulletin.
MPHS member Russ Carter has created a master Index of all Bulletins from 1937 to 2022. This new index should supersede the previous index (listed below) that stopped with 2004 issues. See:
New index of back issues for more information
Current Issue
Fourth 2024 Issue – Vol 62 No 4
The Latest Bulletin is Located at This Link
Featured articles in this issue include:
- France’s Gold and Its WWII Navy in the Caribbean
- U. S. Navy Post Offices in New England, Precursors of the Military Postal Service Agency
- MAILGRAM and Other 1940s US Military Mail Markings, Part 4
- “All Hell is breaking loose and it is terrible.” Ostfront, 1942-1943
- More Civilian “Self-Censorship”, and Maybe “Why”
- Union Occupation of Southern Cities During the Civil War
- Philadelphia US Naval Hospital, Swarthnore Annex
- US Military Pouch and Bag Labels
- And eight additional articles and columns
The issue includes a number of news columns, classified ads, book reviews, show reports, and articles of current Society business news.
Access to the electronic version of this issue is password-protected. Information on the electronic files can be found at: the MPHS Bulletin electronic version links page.
Bulletin Index – 1937-2004 (now superseded)
An Index of the War Cover Club, The War Philatelist and the Military Postal History Society bulletins is online.
There is a special webpage with content of the Bulletin Index for the years 1937-2004.
Publication History
The Military Postal History Society began as a small group of collectors meeting in May 1937 to form an informal War Cover Club and to provide information on military markings in a “War Cover Club” column in a Chicago publication called Postal Markings.
For more information about the Society and Bulletin history, see A 30-Year Look Back at the War Cover Club (later MPHS).
The club was formalized by adoption of a Constitution at a meeting in April 1938 during which a member’s publication called “The War Cover Philatelist” was selected as the club’s official bulletin.
The need for additional coverage of newly emerging World War II resulted in a second official club publication called “The War Cover Club Bulletin” which appeared until mid-1942.
Both publications ended during World War II due in part to restrictions on release of military marking information. The War Cover Club Bulletin reappeared in 1946 as an independent publication and continued until the name of the club, and its publication, was changed in mid-1991 to the Military Postal History Society. The quarterly issues of the Bulletin became identified by season beginning with Winter 1994.
The index document presents a listing of the articles both long and short, which have appeared in these publications during the period from May 1937 to the end of 2004. Note that a new index, covering 1937 to 2022 has been added to the website (see above).
Copies of articles of interest which have appeared in the War Cover Club Column and in the War Cover Philatelist can be provided by the American Philatelic Research Library.
Previous Issues
Links are provided here for previous Bulletins by year:
2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000
More Links
Military Postal History Bulletin Issues Available to Members