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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

			1936-11-17 Locy Type (AC-TTT) U.S.S. PHILA / LAUNCHED USS Pennsylvania BB-38
			Meyer Tuchinsky

Notes: Launching cachet

			1937-09-23 Locy Type FDPS / FDC 3 "FIRST / DAY"
			First Day Postal Service First Day in Commission

Note:

			1937-11-16 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB) "NAVY YARD / PHILA"
			Launching of USS WICHITA CA-45

Hutnick Cachet

			1938-01-21 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB) "BRIDGETOWN / BARBADOS"
			Ship Shakedown Cruise

Cachet Maker: Meyer Tuchinsky.
Contributed by Louis Kurzmiller.

			1938-02-15 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB)
			Category

Postcard use
"U. S. S. MAINE MONUMENT / HAVANA, CUBA"

			1939-02-16 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB)
			Burning of The PHILADELPHIA

Note:

			1939-07-22 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "PORTLAND / OREGON"
			Fleet Week 1939

Linto Cachet
Back Linto return

			1940-12-20 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)
			Category

Crosby Cachet

			1941-01-13 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)
			Category

Crosby Cachet

			1942-01-21 Locy Type 3z (TTT)
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use
Official Business

			1943-11-21 Locy Type 3z (TTB) "REMEMBER / PEARLHARBOR"
			Category

Official Business

			1944-03-19 Locy Type 7rz
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1945-06-11 Locy Type P USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. P-20b [9v with ship's name removed] 1945-06-12 Philadelphia PA Registered Philadelphia PA Navy Yard Sta. Registered
			Official Business

Note:

			1946-06-18 Locy Type LDPS 3 "LAST DAY / 1946"
			Last Day Postal Service

USCS Catalog of United States Naval Postmarks states...
"LDPS covers with the T-3 dated Jun 18, 1946 are of doubtful authenticity"

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