National Postal Museum
USS Nautilus postmark handstamp
Frank Holland · 1958
On August 3, 1958, Frank Holland and John Krawczyk commemorated the first trip by a submarine under the North Pole with this specially-crafted handstamp. The journey below the pole was made by the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear submarine, in the midst of the Cold War.
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