MS4FM 1950 Italian Somaliland

My understanding of the postwar Somalia situation is pretty well explained in the Wikipedia description of Italian Somaliland in the section titled British Military Administration (1941-1949). After Italy lost in WWII, the British maintained administration of ex-Italian Somaliland until November, 1949. After that a UN arrangement was made for Italy to once again administer it conditionally for ten years. My MD4GC and MD4TH cards are both prior to November, 1949, when British administration was in place. Those cards were from British Somaliland. Also at this time there were other MD stations located in Hargesia, which was British Somaliland all through the post WWII period until 1960, when it all became Somalia. You can see that all the Italian Somaliland cards on Tom’s site are dated from 1950.

DXCC
Both Italian Somaliland and British Somaliland existed as separate DXCC entities concurrently until both were deleted from the DXCC list on 01 July 1960.

Italian Somaliland
Italian Somaliland was occupied and administered by Britain during WWII and afterwards until 1949.
During this period, the MD4 prefix was used. We can therefore assume that the MD4 prefix was not used after 31 December, 1949.

From 1950-1960, Italian Somaliland became a UN trust territory, known as the Trust Territory of Somalia, and was administered by Italy. The DXCC entity name remained Italian Somaliland. During this period, the prefix was I5. Some British/Italian personnel remained in Italian Somaliland after 1949, and used the MS4 prefix.

MS4FM, was probably really in Italian Somaliland, since it was dated February, 1950.

MD4 prefix was used by military personnel, and MS4 by civilians.
The DXer DX Bulletin, tnx 5B4AHJ

QSL 5B4AHJ Collection
Info courtesy of W6YA, 5B4AHJ