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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.

 

Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

			1937-02-24 Locy Type FDC 3 "FIRST DAY / IN COMMISSION" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. V-10a
			Commissioning

Cachet Maker: Leo A. Schupp

No Image			1937-02-24 Locy Type FDC 3 "FIRST DAY / IN COMMISSION" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. V-10a
			Commissioning

Pencil notation (Ship's fate)
Back is clean

 

N/A		N/A	1937-05-03 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "STOCKHOLM / SWEDEN" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. V-10a
			Shakedown Cruise

Cacheted. From the Tom Kean collection.

 

			1937-05-11 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "HELSINGFORS / FINLAND" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. V-10a
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by Leo A Schupp. Contributed by Louis Kurzmiller.

 

N/A		N/A	1937-06-07 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "PORTSMOUTH / ENGLAND" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. V-10a
			Shakedown Cruise

SL Cachet. From the Tom Kean collection.

			1937-08-16 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "USSMUGFORD / IN COMM" USCS Catalog Illustration V-10b
			Commissioning USS Mugford DD-389

Cachet by the Independence Crew No. 2, ANCS

N/A		N/A	1938-01-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "HAPPY / NEW YEAR"
			New Year's Day

Cachet by Irene Griffith. From the Tom Kean collection.

N/A		N/A	1938-02-24 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "OUR FIRST / BIRTHDAY" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. V-10b
			1st Anniversary of Commissioning

Cachet by Irene Griffith

 

			1939-08-21 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "NEW YORK / N.Y." USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. V-10b Locy Type 9v Locy Type 9efw
			Category

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			1940-01-05 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. V-10b
			Official Business

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No Image			1940-02-22 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB)    "WASHINGTON / BIRTHDAY" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. V-10c
			Category

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			1940-10-04 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT)    " / BOSTON MASS" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. V-10c
			Category

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			1940-12-10 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT)    " V 7 CRUISE / NORFOLK VA" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. V-10c
			"the $100 haircut"

Bette Tambling Cachet

 

			1940-12-25 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT)    "MERRY / XMAS" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. V-10c
			Christmas Day

Cachet Maker: Lavina May Mingos

 

No Image			1941-02-16 Locy Type 7rt
			Category

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			1941-08-02 Locy Type Pz "U.S. / NAVY" USCS Catalog Illustration V-10c
			Official Business

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			1942-08-19 Locy Type 3z
			Category

Posted from another ship or shore station as ship was sunk 10 days earlier

 

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