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Covers should be listed in chronological order. Use the postmark date or best guess.

Each entry provides a link to the image of the front of the cover. There is also the option to have a link to the image of the back of the cover if there is anything of significance there. Finally, there is the primary date for the cover and the classification types for all postmarks based on the Locy System.

Thumbnail Link To Cachet Close-Up Image	Thumbnail Link To Full Cover Front Image	Thumbnail Link To Postmark or Back Image	Postmark Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text Ship --------- Category

			1941-10-14 Locy Type FDPS 3 (A-BBT) "FIRST DAY / COVER"
			First Day Of Postal Service Commissioning

Cachet by Walter Czubay

			1941-10-14 Locy Type FDPS 3 (A-BBT) "FIRST DAY / COVER"
			First Day Of Postal Service Commissioning

Cachet by Dr. S. E. Hutnick

			1941-10-14 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "FIRST DAY / COVER"
			First Day Of Postal Service Commissioning

Cachet by Mae Weigand

			1941-10-14 Locy Type FDPS 3 (A-BBT) "FIRST DAY / COVER"
			First Day Of Postal Service Commissioning

Cachet by Alvin Franzblau

			1941-10-14 Locy Type FDPS 3 (A-BBT) "FIRST DAY / COVER"
			First Day Of Postal Service Ship Commissioning

Cachet by Dr. S. E. Hutnick

N/A			1941-10-14 Locy Type FDPS 3 (A-BBT) "FIRST DAY / COVER"
			First Day Of Postal Service Commissioning

Notes:

N/A			1941-11-01 Locy Type 9efw
			Category

Add on cachet by Michael Hebert (Mh Cachets)

			1941-11-22 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)
			Category

Cachet by Jacques Minkus. Back blue printed Minkus copyright (lower right)

N/A			1941-11-25 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) USS Solace AH-5
			Philatelic Mail

Addressed to Bertha L. Thompson, who was USCS president during WWII.

NA			1941-12-06 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)
			Category

Signed by PhM1/c Marvin Ralph Kelly (1908-1986), who was on SOLACE from 1941-1943.

			1942-01-13 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Category

Front blue pen notation "U.S.S. SOLACE AH-5"

N/A			1942-01-15 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Category

Censored, WWII use. Front pencil notation "Solace"

			1942-01-22 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Category

Censored, WWII use. Cachet by Gordon A. Shaw

			1945-05-21 Mute Bulls-eye Cancels On the Back - Locy Type 9v New York NY 10492 Br. 1945-05-28 Washington D.C. U.S. Fleet Post Office
			Registered,Official Business

Note:

			1945-06-22 Locy Type 2z
			Category

Censored, WWII use

N/A			1946-03-25 Locy Type LDPS 2(n)
			Last Day Postal Service

Add on cachet by Michael Hebert (Mh Cachets)

			1946-03-25 Locy Type LDPS 2(n)
			Last Day Postal Service

Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

If you have images to add to this page, then either contact the Curator or edit this page yourself and add them. See Editing Ship Cover Pages for detailed information on editing this page.

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