OtherUS Navy Yard Cavite Philippines

Cachets should be listed in chronological order based on earliest known usage. Use the postmark date or best guess. This applies to add-on cachets as well.

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

 

N/A			1940-01-26 Locy Type 3 (BBO) Dial Text: "NAVY YARD CAVITE / P.I. BR. HONOLULU, HAWAII" Killer Text: "CAVITE / P-I"
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R/S marking on back from the Naval Shore Station Cancellation Society

 

			1941-09-09 Locy Type 3 (BBT) Dial Text: "1ST SEP. MAR. BAT. / NAVY YARD, CAVITE P.I. BR." Killer Text: "FIRST DAY / CANCELLATION"
			First Day of the Battalion

Note: 1st Separate Marine Battalion - These 700 Marines were assigned duty at the Navy Yard to provide for the defense of the installation. The Navy Yard was evacuted on 10 December 1941 when the Japanese attacked the facility but the Marines, Navy and civilians returned to clean-up and rearm. The Navy Yard was abandoned on 25 December 1941 after repeated attacks by the Japanese and the base personnel were dispersed to other units in the Philippines until the country fell to the Japanese in May of 1942.

 

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