MISSOURI BB 63 Covers Page 1

Covers should be listed in chronological order. Use the postmark date or best guess.

1. Main Page    (Ship Information and Postmarks)
2. Covers Page 2    (1987 - 1995)
3. Covers Page 3    (1996 - 2006)

 

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

 

No Image		No Image	1941-01-06 USPO Type 3 "Receiving Ship Br." Brooklyn NY
			Keel Laying

Cachet by Dr. S. E. Hutnick

 

No Image		No Image	1944-01-29 USPO Machine Cancel Brooklyn NY
			Launching

Cachet by George V. Sadworth

 

			1944-11-06 Locy Type 7z*
			Category

Official Business

 

			1945-09-02 Locy Type F USCS Catalog Illustration M-93b
			V-J Day

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

		No Image	1945-09-10
			Person Commemorative - Admiral Chester W Nimitz

Notes: Cachet Maker: Fluegel.

 

			1945-09-28 Locy Type 7z*
			Category

Note:

 

			1945-12-24 Locy Type 2(n)
			Category

Official Business

 

No Image			1946-02-26 Locy Type 7tnu
			Category

Note:

 

			1946-03-04 Locy Type 7tnu
			Category

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No Image			1946-04-20 Locy Type 7tnu
			Sailor's Mail

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No Image			1946-05-18 Locy Type 7tnu
			Sailor's Mail

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No Image			1946-09-02 Locy Type F USCS Catalog Illustration M-93c
			1st Anniversary VJ-Day

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			1946-10-27 Locy Type 2(n)
			Navy Day 1946

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			1947-04-06 Locy Type 2(n)
			Category

Note:

 

No Image			1949-02-16 Locy Type 2(n)
			5th Anniversary of the Battle of Truk Lagoon

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			1950-09-02 Locy Type 2(n)
			5th Anniversary VJ-Day

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			1951-01-22 Locy Type 7t
			Category

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			1951-04-20 Locy Type 7t
			Category

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No Image			1952-06-15 Locy Type 7t
			Category

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			1954-04-30 Locy Type 2(n)
			Category

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No Image			1954-11-11 Locy Type 2
			Veteran's Day

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No Image			1955-01-11 Locy Type 2
			Sailor's Mail

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No Image			1985-06-28 USPS Machine cancel Long Beach, CA
			Official Mail Prospective Commanding Officer return address

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No Image			1985-09-02 Locy Type 2 Locy Type 9 Locy Type F (M-93d)
			40th Anniversary of V-J Day

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No Image			1985-09-02 Locy Type 9 USS Fulton AS-11
			40th Anniversary of V-J Day

Cachet artist - Alton (Budd) M. Arrington
Cachet sponsor - Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

No Image			1985-09-02 USPS Pictorial "Balpex Station" Hunt Valley, MD
			40th Anniversary of V-J Day

Cachet artist - Alton (Budd) M. Arrington, Cachet sponsor - Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

No Image			1986-04-23 USPS Machine cancel Long Beach, CA
			Official Mail Commanding Officer return address

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No Image			1986-05-10 Locy Type F (M-93e) "FIRST DAY / ISSUE"
			Recommissioning of the USS Missouri

Cachet artist - Alton (Budd) M. Arrington, Cachet sponsor - Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

No Image			1986-05-10 Locy Type F (M-93e) "FIRST DAY / ISSUE"
			Recommissioning of the USS Missouri

Official Ship Cachet

 

No Image			1986-05-12 Locy Type 2 USS Iowa BB-61 USS Missouri BB-63 USS New Jersey BB-62
			3-Battleship cover

Tom Armstrong

 

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