1941 France Legion Des Volantaires
They were sold in aid of a French wartime collaborationist organization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_of_French_Volunteers_Against_Bolshevism
They are listed in the Maury catalogue at €20 each mint. Higher if used and even higher if on cover in period.
Don
Here are the stamps without the overprints:
A 2010 Stamporama thread also addresses these stamps
Bob
most of this is correct, except the part about going in your album, Phil. That is not where they should be filed.
"most of this is correct, except the part about going in your album, Phil. That is not where they should be filed"
I believe Bolshevik Bob and Free French David or phiting phrancophone phil phor those labels. En Guarde!
A number of Free French pilots became members of the little-known Normandie-Niemen Squadron, which fought the Luftwaffe on the Eastern Front from bases in the Society Union. In 1969, France issued this stamp, commemorating the squadron:
The Warfare History Network offers an interesting article about the squadron, French Aces on the Eastern Front: The Normandie-Niemen Squadron.
They flew Soviet Yak-1s fighters; this illustration is from the article:
Bob
Bob, too bad you are so far away...you would enjoy Cole Palens World War 1 Aerodrome,,about a 20 minute walk down the back road from me. It was better 30 years ago when Cole was alive, he was the chief cook and bottlewasher..playing the villan in the Red Barons plane...his wife sold out and its more commercial now.
Visited that a couple of times when I lived just down the river from you.
re: French East Front Volunteer labels
1941 France Legion Des Volantaires
They were sold in aid of a French wartime collaborationist organization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_of_French_Volunteers_Against_Bolshevism
They are listed in the Maury catalogue at €20 each mint. Higher if used and even higher if on cover in period.
Don
re: French East Front Volunteer labels
Here are the stamps without the overprints:
A 2010 Stamporama thread also addresses these stamps
Bob
re: French East Front Volunteer labels
most of this is correct, except the part about going in your album, Phil. That is not where they should be filed.
re: French East Front Volunteer labels
"most of this is correct, except the part about going in your album, Phil. That is not where they should be filed"
re: French East Front Volunteer labels
I believe Bolshevik Bob and Free French David or phiting phrancophone phil phor those labels. En Guarde!
re: French East Front Volunteer labels
A number of Free French pilots became members of the little-known Normandie-Niemen Squadron, which fought the Luftwaffe on the Eastern Front from bases in the Society Union. In 1969, France issued this stamp, commemorating the squadron:
The Warfare History Network offers an interesting article about the squadron, French Aces on the Eastern Front: The Normandie-Niemen Squadron.
They flew Soviet Yak-1s fighters; this illustration is from the article:
Bob
re: French East Front Volunteer labels
Bob, too bad you are so far away...you would enjoy Cole Palens World War 1 Aerodrome,,about a 20 minute walk down the back road from me. It was better 30 years ago when Cole was alive, he was the chief cook and bottlewasher..playing the villan in the Red Barons plane...his wife sold out and its more commercial now.
re: French East Front Volunteer labels
Visited that a couple of times when I lived just down the river from you.