Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5

Wartime air mail from Chile / outbreak of WWII in West: 6 MAY 1940 reg. airletter ex SANTIAGO to HAIFA, franked 15.10P & tied by 2 strikes of local a/m pmk; as tied by special 10th anniversary (12 May) Air France south-Atlantic flight boxed cachet (on 10 May Germany invaded France & Lowlands; AF ceased operations in June), cv carred by AF on weekly wartime route BUENOS AIRES - MONTEVIDEO - PORTO ALEGRE - SANTOS - RIO DE JANEIRO - SALVADOR - RECIFE - NATAL - DAKAR - PORT ETIENNE - CASABLANCA - TANGIER - TOULOUSE; as cv lacks 3rd country transit marks, probably carried by air to Pal. (by AF or any carrier w/Fr. transit) & as censored by H50 in Haifa (6 months before Sacher's EKD of use) cv carried directly to locale; b/s 26 MY 40 REG HAIFA arr.; slit open at top. Rare route/time, one of AF's last transatlantic flights before Armistice.