1938 National Air Mail Week NAMW Kitty Hawk North Carolina NC official cachet SR

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Condition:1938 National Air Mail Week NAMW Kitty Hawk North Carolina NC official cachet

1938 National Air Mail Week NAMW Kitty Hawk North Carolina NC official cachet

In 1938 the United States was still mired in the Great Depression. Air
transport companies were developing but struggling to stay financially
afloat. Air travel was still a novelty.

National Air Mail Week:
To promote air mail service, a nation-wide public relations campaign was
launched by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Postmaster-General
James A Farley. It was called National Air Mail Week. It took place
during the week of May 15/21, 1938.

To begin this
promotion, on Saturday, May 14th the US issued an air mail stamp C-23 (6
cent Eagle multi-colored airmail stamp) in Washington DC and also
Dayton OH and Saint Petersburg FL. The stamp honored the twentieth
anniversary of the inauguration of scheduled air mail service in the US
which had its formal beginnings on May 15, 1918 with flights between New
York, Philadelphia and Washington DC.

Each citizen was
encouraged to mail or receive an airmail letter during the week-long
celebration. Postal employees, postal organizations, civic and municipal
authorities, radio stations, newspapers and citizens cooperated to make
this a successful event.

Thousands of cities across the
US (48 States) and most US Territories became involved with their own
local air mail activities. Close to 10,000 individual city cachets were
prepared, giving each locality a chance to boast about what made their
locality proud, special and important.

On Thursday, May
19th over 1,700 special one-day-only flights occurred carrying these
specially prepared air mail covers linking location to location.
Forty-three special flights were made by women pilots. One special
flight was made by the first black pilot to carry airmail. Grover C Nash
flew a special one-day flight from Chicago via Mattoon IL to Charleston
IL. Many local airports were dedicated during the week. Some special
flights were delayed due to weather and only one of the special flights
crashed.

Over 16.2 million letters/covers and 9 thousand parcels were transported by air that week.

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