1945 (12 Nov.) air mail envelope from Paloalto, California, USA to the Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, bearing 8c. air franking, marked LST 1016 and, on route to its new destination, burnt around the edges and with printed label, AIR MAIL CENTER/GUAM/THE ENCLOSED MAIL WAS SALVAGED/FROM A TAG CRASH ON TINIAN/7 January, 1946./n. a. davis/ens., usnr./officer in charge . THIS MARIANA ISLANDS / GUAM POSTAL HISTORY RARITY IS POSSIBLY UNIQUE and not listed by Nierinck in his handbook of air mail crash covers. Mail plane crash on 7 January, 1946: a Transport Air Group C-46 plane (Trip 1000) en route from Saipan to Guam, crashed on the runway at Tinian. (Tinian is one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands / Marianen Inseln. Together with uninhabited neighboring Aguijan, it forms Tinian Municipality, one of the four constituent municipalities of the Northern Marianas. Tinian's largest village is San Jose