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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 --------- Cachet Category

 

N/A		N/A	1955-07-07 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB) Locy Type 9ef(n+u)
			"US Navy" cachet

Cachet by George V. Sadworth

 

N/A		N/A	1955-11-02 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			Departed U.S.A.

Rubber stamp cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1955-11-09 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB) Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. G-51 (Used as cachet)
			Panama Canal Outbound

Rubber stamp cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1955-12-18 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB) Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. G-51 (Used as cachet)
			"Antarctica"

Rubber stamp marking

 

N/A		N/A	1955-12-28 Locy Type 2r USS ARNEB AKA-56 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. G-51 (Used as cachet)
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Note:

 

N/A			1957-01-14 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Operation Deep Freeze II"

Printed Cachet & ships straight line marking. Large rubber stamp marking on the back.

 

N/A		N/A	1957-11-29 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Operation Deep Freeze III"

Cachet by George H. Goldey

 

N/A		N/A	1957-11-29 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Operation Deep Freeze III"

Cachet by George H. Goldey

 

N/A			1958-01-19 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			Helicopter Mail (Flight cover)

Cover also has 2 New Zealand stamps postmarked at Wigram Air Force, 27 Ja 56. Large rubber stamp cachet on the back.

 

N/A		N/A	1958-03-08 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			Official Mail

Oceanographic Survey Group rubber stamp cachet.

 

N/A		N/A	1960-02-15 Locy Type 9ef(n+u)
			"Operation Deep Freeze 1959-60"

Cacheted

 

N/A		N/A	1960-02-19 Locy Type 9ef(n+u)
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Violet rubberstamped cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1960-02-20 Locy Type 9ef(n+u)
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Rubber stamp cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1960-02-23 Locy Type 9ef(n+u)
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Rubber stamp cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1960-12-13 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Rubber stamp cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1960-12-13 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Rubber stamp cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1961-02-11 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Rubber stamp cachet

 

N/A			1962-01-05 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Rubber stamp cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1962-02-04 Locy Type 2r Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. G-51e
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Black rubberstamped cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1962-02-05 Locy Type 2r
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Rubber stamp cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1962-04-03 Locy Type 2r
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Cachet by Martin W. Longseth

 

N/A		N/A	1962-11-15 Locy Type 2r
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Rubber stamp cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1963-03-11 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Rubber stamp cachet. Postage due .01c. Signed by the CO.

 

N/A		N/A	1963-03-11 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			RAdm Richard Byrd Memorial cachet

Printed cachet, postmarked in New Zealand on March 11 1962 when the Memorial was dedicated. Postmarked by USS Glacier on its 1st anniversary in 1963.

 

N/A		N/A	1963-11-19 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			Deep Freeze 64

Rubber stamp cachet.

 

N/A		N/A	1963-12-23 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Antarctic Flight"

Typed cachet.

 

N/A		N/A	1963-12-31 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Black rubberstamped cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1963-12-31 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Rubber stamp cachet. Addition r/s cachet for the "30th Anniversary of the BYRD ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION II 1933-34"

 

N/A		N/A	1963-12-31 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Rubber stamp cachet.

 

N/A		N/A	1964-03-11 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Antarctic Research Project"

Black rubberstamped cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1965-01-19 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Rubber stamp cachet. Contributed by Tom Kean.

 

N/A		N/A	1965-01-19 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Rubber stamp cachet.

 

N/A		N/A	1966-01-16 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Rubber stamp cachet.

 

N/A		N/A	1966-02-03 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Rubber stamp cachet. CO's return address and signature.

 

N/A		N/A	1966-02-13 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Rubber stamp cachet.

 

N/A		N/A	1966-02-14 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Rubber stamp cachet.

 

N/A		N/A	1966-02-16 Locy Type 2(n+)(AGB)
			"Operation Deep Freeze"

Rubber stamp cachet. Contributed by Tom Kean.

 

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