Sunday, December 7, 2025

Military Censorship No. 5

This post continues one published almost exactly a year ago - see it here.

This time, I present a newly discovered cover bearing the censorship handstamp "★ VOJNA CENZURA 5" ("★ MILITARY CENSORSHIP 5"). The letter was sent at the end of 1944 from Petrčane, near Zadar, to Belgrade. Because of its destination, it most likely travelled by boat to Vis and from there by airplane to Zemun.

As with Military Censorship No. 7, the exact location of Censorship No. 5 cannot be determined with certainty. However, it probably belonged to Vis—not only because the later civil censorship on Vis used the number 5, but also because this particular letter was addressed to Belgrade, which strongly suggests that it passed through the Vis mail route.

Letter sent free of charge at the end of 1944 from Petrčane near Zadar to Belgrade, censored by military censor with the handstamp "★ VOJNA CENZURA 5" and an initial, most likely applied on the island of Vis. This is the only known example of this censorship mark.