During WW II there were a large number of American soldiers and support staff in the UK. Below is a cover postmarked APO 511, dated 2nd October 1943, addressed to the War Department Public Relations Bureau.
In August 1944 Americans over here had to apply for a postal vote in the US elections due in November. Below is a postcard applying for such a vote from Harold Oliver in the 1000th Quartermaster Baker Company situated at the Musgrove Park Evacuation Hospital in Taunton.
The postmark is for APO 511 - replies were sent via a New York address rather than to a physical address in the UK - as that would potentially give away the disposition of US forces abroad.
The cover below is postmarked APO 167, dated 17th June 1944; APO 167 was at Bincombe, 4 miles north of Weymouth, at the time. The return address is APO 403, Third Army, which was at Knutsford.
APO 551 was in England from October 1943 until November 1945. When the cover below was posted in August 1944, it was a Haddon Hill, about 19 miles west of Taunton and 4 miles east of Dulverton.
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