McCORMICK AG 118

Ship Name and Designation History

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Clemson Class Destroyer Keel Laid 11 August 1919 - Launched 22 January 1920 USS McCORMICK DD-223 Commissioned 30 August 1920 - Decommissioned 14 October 1938 Recommissioned 26 September 1939 USS McCORMICK AG-118 Reclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary (AG) 30 June 1945 Decommissioned 4 October 1945 Struck from Naval Register 24 October 1945 Sold 15 December 1946 for scrap

Lieutenant (j.g.) Alexander A. McCormack, USNRF

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1. USS McCormick DD-223 / AG-118 Covers Page 1    (1934-1945)

 

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

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1st Commissioning 30 August 1920 to 14 October 1938

 

Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"

1938-05-04

DD-223

 

Locy Type 3s "FLEET CRUISE /"

1934-09-24

DD-223

 

Locy Type 9(n) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. M-19

1932-06-03

DD-223

 

Locy Type LDPS 3 (A-TBT) "LAST DAY / SAN DIEGO CAL"

1938-09-15

DD-223. Last Day of Postal Service. Cachet by Edward Hacker

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2nd Commissioning 26 September 1939 to 4 October 1945

 

Locy Type FDPS 3 (A-BBT) "BALBOA / CANAL ZONE"

1940-01-04

DD-223. First Day of Postal Service

 

Locy Type FDPS 9v

1940-01-04

DD-223. First Day of Postal Service. Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson.

 

Locy Type FDPS 9x

1940-01-04

DD-223. First Day of Postal Service. Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson.

 

Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "COCO SOLO / CANAL ZONE"

1940-02-19

DD-223

 

Locy Type 6ep (2)

1941-04-11

DD-223

 

Locy Type Fz USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-Z2

1945-06-06

DD-223

 

Locy Type P "U S S / MC CORMICK"

1941-05-30

DD-223. Add-on cachet by Wolfgang Hechler

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Born in Chicago, IL, Alexander Agnew McCormick was the son of Chicago Evening Post editor and Chicago city alderman Alexander A. McCormick (better known as "A. A. McCormick") and his wife Maude Warner. He attended the University of Chicago High School, and entered Yale University with the Class of 1919. He enlisted as a Seaman (2nd Class) in the US Naval Aviation Forces on 16 April 1917 and trained at Buffalo, NY with the Aerial Coast Patrol Unit No. 2, which had been organized at Yale shortly after the United States declared war on Germany. He was commissioned in the US Naval Reserve Force as an ensign on 2 November 1917 and was stationed at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, FL, until 28 May 1918. He was assigned to Squadron 214 of the Royal Air Force and served in France. On 24 September 1918, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) McCormick received fatal injuries in battle while an aerial gunner with the Northern Bombing Group in a mission near Calais. Buried in the military cemetery at Calais, he was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross. His remains now lie at the Somme American Cemetery, Bony, France.

The ships sponsor was Miss Katherine McCormick, sister of Lieutenant ( jg.) McCormick.

 

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