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

 

			1943-11-08 Locy Type 2z
			Official Business

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			1944-03-13 Locy Type 2z
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

			1945-10-10 Locy Type 2# (Br. #15906)
			Category

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No Image			1952-01-11 Locy Type 2(n)
			Category

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			1953-07-11 Locy Type 2tnu Locy Type 9ef(nu)
			Photo cachet

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			1956-09-18 Locy Type 2r
			U.S. Submarines / The Silent Service

Return to USS TRUMPETFISH SS-425

 

			1968-02-29 Locy Type 7tn+
			USS SKIPJACK SSN-585

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			1977-04-07 Locy Type 2(n+) (USS)
			USS TUNNY SSN-682

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			1982-10-14 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS)
			40th anniversary of launching

Cachet Maker: CDR Paul Huber
Cachet is a real photo of the launching in 1942.

 

			1990-01-29 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (A,USS)
			USS BATON ROUGE SSN-689

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			1990-07-23 Locy Type Meter PB3 (#3351870) ZIP 09513 Locy Type Meter OFR2 (#520255) ZIP 09513
			Category

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N/A		N/A	1991-07-04 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (A,USS)
			Independence Day

Cachet by Gary Rogak

 

No Image			1992-09-29 Locy Type Meter OFR2 (#520255) ZIP 09513
			Category

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			1992-12-06 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS)
			Category

Cachet Maker: Roger A. Wentworth

 

			1993-08-21 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS) Locy Type 2-2a(n+) (USS,FPO AE 09513)
			Commissioning of USS TEMPEST PC-2

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			1993-09-03 Locy Type LDC 2-1(n+) Locy Type LDC 2-2a(n+)
			Last Day in Commission

Cachet notes decommissioning, USCS shows date as 1993-09-30

 

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