Military Occupations and Mandates
With military operations during World War I, Australia occupied two former German colonies: German New Guinea and Nauru from the German Marshall Islands. Stamps of the German colonies and of the United Kingdom were overprinted. In the 1920s, Australia issued stamps in the name of these two territories as part of its obligations to these League of Nations mandates. After the Japanese occupation of Nauru and New Guinea, stamps of Australia were used late 1945 until reprints of the last Nauru series were available.
In the Territories of Papua and the mandate of New Guinea, stamps of Australia were valid between 1945 and 1953. United, the new Territory of Papua and New Guinea received its own stamps from Australia until its independence in 1975.
Between October 1946 and February 1949, in occupied Japan, the Australian stamps used as such by the military post offices were overprinted "B.C.O.F. / JAPAN / 1946" to avoid speculation on the currency value.
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