Round-the-World Flights

Global Air Odessy Round-the-World Flight

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Flown Cover	Cancellation	Cover - Rear	Ernest A. Kehr	Press Release

	Ernest A. Kehr (autograph) was a stamp columnist and the stamp editor for the New York Herald 
Tribune.  He regarded every stamp in his collection as a source of information about the country and 
the peoples by which it had been issued.  He distributed philatelic materials to Veterans' hospitals 
as head of "Stamps for the Wounded" and, as a newspaperman, produced more lineage to support philately 
than other person in history. His book, "Romance of Stamp Collecting" (1947) was also the hobby's 
standard for new collectors for decades.   
	As vice-president of the American Air Mail Society, Kehr provided the coordination with country 
members of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) asking for their cooperation at postmarking the aerograms 
carried by the Atlas Sky Merchant in its 1948 round-the-world flight. 
    Now in 1955 to support the Herald Tribune Fresh Air Fund, he personally carried a number of covers 
round-the-world. The covers were later sold as souvenirs to collectors, the proceeds going to the 
Fresh Air Fund.  He carried the covers as he traveled by commercial flights of several airlines 
taking them to five continents and more than two dozen countries.  His round-the-world trip was his 
global air odyssey. He died in 1986.

Itinerary:

Departed New York City           Lufthansa           06/02/55
	Shannon, Ireland                         
	Hamburg, Germany         SAS 
	Oslo, Norway             SAS                 06/10/55			
	Copenhagen, Denmark               
	Geneva, Switzerland      TWA
	Rome, Italy
	Athens, Greece
	Cairo, Egypt
	Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
	Karachi, Pakistan
	Rawalpindi, Pakistan
	Bombay, India
	Dambulla, Ceylon                             06/20/55
	Calcutta, India          Air France
	Murree, Bangladesh                           07/07/55
	Decca, Bangladesh                            07/13/55
	Bangkok, Thailand    
	Saigon, Viet Nam
	Manila, Philippines                          07/18/55
	Wake Island
	Honolulu, HI
	Seattle, WA              NW Orient
	Minneapolis, MN
Arrived New York City                                07/25/55	

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