North Carolina BB 55 Covers Page 5

 
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1. Covers Page 1    (Keel Laying 1937 - Launching 1940)
2. Covers Page 2    (Commissioning 1941 Page 1)
3. Covers Page 3    (Commissioning 1941 Page 2)
4. Covers Page 4    (1941-1944)
5. Covers Page 5    (1945-1947)
6. Covers Page 6    (Memorial 1961-2007)
7. Covers Page 7    (Postcards Page 1)
8. Covers Page 8    (Postcards Page 2)
9. Covers Page 9    (Postcards & Stamps)

 

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	Primary Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text --------- Cachet Category

 

N/A		N/A	1945-05-20 Locy Type 7qtz(2)
			N/A

Censored Officer's Mail

 

N/A		N/A	1945-09-06 Locy Type 3a (A) "IN TOKYO / BAY"
			N/A

Patriotic cover by Columbus Dispatch

 

N/A		N/A	1945-10-26 Locy Type 9efw
			N/A

FREE mail

 

N/A		N/A	1945-10-27 Locy Type 2(n)
			Navy Day

Official Mail

 

N/A		N/A	1945-10-27 Locy Type 2(n)
			Navy Day

Note:

 

N/A		N/A	1945-11-02 Locy Type 2(n)
			N/A

Official Business

 

N/A		N/A	1945-12-24 Locy Type 2(n)
			Christmas Eve

Cachet by Ted Harrington

 

N/A		N/A	1946-02-05 Locy Type 2(n)
			N/A

Embossed porthole cachet with a airplane in view. Contributed by Jimmy Jordan.

 

N/A		N/A	1946-02-06 Locy Type 7qtz(2)
			N/A

Official Business

 

N/A		N/A	1946-03-03 Locy Type 2(n)
			N/A

Rubber stamp cachet, contributed by Wiliam Lowe.

 

N/A		N/A	1946-03-26 Locy Type 2(n)
			N/A

Cachet by the Art Craft Company for the 50th Anniversary of Motion Pictures, issued Oct. 31, 1944.

 

N/A		N/A	1946-03-31 Locy Type 2(n)
			N/A

Note:

 

N/A		N/A	1946-04-08 Locy Type 2(n)
			Category

"United States Navy / Battleship BB" cacheted cover.

 

N/A		N/A	1946-04-09 Locy Type 2(n)
			N/A

5th Anniversary of Commissioning, Sailor's Mail.

 

N/A		N/A	1946-04-09 Locy Type 2(n)
			N/A

5th Anniversary of Commissioning.

 

N/A		N/A	1946-04-26 Locy Type 2(n)
			N/A

Note:

 

N/A		N/A	1946-07-04 Locy Type 2(n) Locy Type 9v
			N/A

Independence Day

 

N/A		N/A	1946-07-28 Locy Type 2(n)
			N/A

Transferred to the Atlantic Fleet Reserves pending disposition, cachet by Walter Czubay.

 

N/A		N/A	1946-08-01 Locy Type 2(n) USS Sutton DE 771
			N/A

Transferred to the Atlantic Fleet Reserves pending disposition, cachet by Walter Czubay.

 

			1946-08-06 Locy Type 2(n)
			Honoring The Battleship

Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

 

N/A		N/A	1946-10-27 Locy Type 3a (A) "NAVY / DAY"
			Navy Day

Note:

 

			1946-10-27 Locy Type 3a (A) "NAVY / DAY"
			Navy Day

Note:

 

N/A		N/A	1946-10-27 Locy Type 3a (A) "NAVY / DAY"
			Navy Day

"Set Your course - Buy War Bonds", cachet by Goff, sponsored by Matthew J. Huss.

 

N/A		N/A	1946-10-30 Locy Type 9efw
			N/A

R/S US Navy seal.

 

N/A		N/A	1946-10-30 Locy Type 9efw
			N/A

Rubber stamp cachet, contributed by Wiliam Lowe.

 

N/A		N/A	1946-11-22 Locy Type 2(n)
			N/A

Printed cachet. Contributed by Jimmy Jordan.

 

N/A		N/A	1947-01-13 Locy Type 2(n) USS Henley DD 762
			N/A

Transferred to the Atlantic Fleet Reserves pending disposition, cachet by Walter Czubay.

 

N/A		N/A	1947-06-27 Locy Type P USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. C-2 USS Cable ARS 19
			N/A

Last Day of Commissioning for the USS North Carolina BB 55, add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell.

 

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