This is an original censored WWII Army Cover (envelope with bicolored border) dated August 3, 1944 and is franked with stamp #UC3 "Air Mail". The envelop was sent by Pfc. Robert A. Costello to Mr. and Mrs. Leo Costello (his brother) of
20 East Clinton Street, Johnstown, New York. Nevertheless the envelope contains his original letter.
The address the envelope was sent from was APO #83 which was somewhere in France on this date.
At the time this letter was send, August 3, 1944, the 330th Infantry Regiment was at Bageur Pican, France, staying for attack to sieze Dol De Bretagne, launched on August 4, 1944.
Note that the cover was censored 3 times. First the manuscript censor at unit level, next the red base cancel and last the Army censor tied by the racetrack censors mark.
