Miscellaneous Items of the 467th BG(H)

Story of the Postage Stamps

The pictured British postage stamps from WW2 were sent by 791st copilot Andy Beasley of the Lt. Rufus Stephens crew. The crew were shotdown on the May 29th 44 mission to Tutow, northern Germany, and the aircraft and several crew members came down in the Baltic Sea close to the coast.

Back at Rackheath, upon hearing the aircraft and crew were initially reported as MIA, the crews personal effects were cleared out and returned to the U.S. to immediate family. Among those personal effects was the pictured booklet of stamps. Andy Beasley and six members of the crew survived both the bale out and the remainder of the War in German POW camps. These British WW2 era postage stamps were returned to England 56 years later.