The Military Postal History Society Quarterly Journal (previously Bulletin)
New Master Bulletin Index Now Available
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, the name Journal will be slowly replacing the use of the title Bulletin in these pages.
MPHS member Russ Carter has created a new master index of
Bulletins from 1937 to 2022. See:
the links to the Master Bulletin Index
1937-2022.
The now superseded index listed at the bottom of this page will be retained
until the new Index project is complete.
Featured articles in this issue include:
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France’s Gold and Its WWII Navy in the Caribbean
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U. S. Navy Post Offices in New England, Precursors of the Military Postal Service Agency
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MAILGRAM and Other 1940s US Military Mail Markings, Part 4
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“All Hell is breaking loose and it is terrible.” Ostfront, 1942-1943
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More Civilian “Self-Censorship”, and Maybe “Why”
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Union Occupation of Southern Cities During the Civil War
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Philadelphia US Naval Hospital, Swarthnore Annex
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US Military Pouch and Bag Labels
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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 Journal
electronic version links page.
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.
See: A 30th Anniversary Look Back at the Early Years of the War Cover Club (now Military Postal Society (PDF file extracted from December 1967 Bulletin Issue)
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 older index document, linked above, 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.
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.