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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

No Image			Date Unknown Locy Type PPB
			Category

Note:

		No Image	1940-02-12 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "U.S. FLEET / FLAG SHIP"
			USS Macon ZRS-5

Cachet Maker: Walter Czubay (NCS 1 - National Cachet Society). Not sure who NCS 53 is.

		No Image	1940-08-06 Locy Type 7d
			Category

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Cachet is thermographed.

			1940-10-27 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "BREMERTON / WASHINGTON"
			Navy Day

Cachet Makers: Myron F McCamley and Robert B Kirchgraber

			1941-01-20 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT)
			Category

Cachet Maker: Mae Weigand

		No Image	1941-02-01 Locy Type 7d
			Category

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Cachet is thermographed.

			1941-02-01 Locy Type 7d
			Category

Cachet Maker: Unknown
Applied Air Mail label

No Image			1941-03-31 Locy Type 7d
			Category

Weigand hand painted cachet

N/A		N/A	1941-05-06 Locy Type 6i
			Felix the Cat

Note:

No Image		No Image	1941-07-15 Locy Type 7d
			Business Reply

Note:

No Image			1941-09-05 Locy Type 7d
			Category

Note:

			1941-10-11 Locy Type 6i Locy Type 7d Locy Type 9efw Locy Type 9v Locy Type 9x
			Category

Note:

No Image			1941-10-12 Locy Type 7d
			Category

Back typed notation "U.S.S. Macon,Ship cancel"...Blue pen notation "A2"

No Image		No Image	1941-11-18 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Category

Note: Front typed notation "U.S.S. Pennsylvania"

No Image			1942-09-24 Locy Type 7drz
			Category

Note:

No Image			1943-02-11 Locy Type 7drz
			Category

Note: Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1944-10-11 Locy Type 7drz Locy Type 9efw (likely backdated)
			Category

Note: Backside has postmark from USS ABSD-2

			1945-05-25 Locy Type 2z
			Official Business

Posted from another ship or station...ship did not carry this device

			1945-11-11 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT)
			Armistice Day 1945

Back Black rubberstamp Myron F. McCamley return

		No Image	1946-01-24 Locy Type 7d
			Category

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Cachet is thermographed.

		No Image	1946-02-14 Locy Type 9v
			Category

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Cachet is thermographed.

No Image			1946-04-09 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. P-15c
			Category

Note:

No Image		No Image	1946-05-13 Locy Type LDPS 2(n)
			Last Day Postal Service

Note:

			1946-05-13 Locy Type LDPS 2(n)
			Last Day Postal Service

Cachet by Winfred M. Grandy

			1946-05-13 Locy Type LDPS 2(n) Locy Type PPB
			Last Day in Commission

Cachet Maker: George V Sadworth.
Cachet is thermographed.

			1946-05-13 Locy Type LDPS 2(n)
			Atomic Bomb Test

Notes: Back of cover has rubberstamp for Paul J Gross (ANCS 1089) but it is not clear if he had anything to do with making the cachet.

			1946-05-13 Locy Type LDPS 2(n) Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. P-15c
			Last Day in Commission

Sadworth Cachet
Back of cover has pencil notations ship/cancel info

			1946-05-13 Locy Type LDPS 2(n)
			Ship Last Day Of Postal Service Nuclear Bomb Tests

Cachet Maker: Goff.

Unused

Ship postcard

N/A			2016-12-07 USPS Type 9 "Naval Sta MOU No 1" Pearl Harbor HI
			Crewmember Tribute Cover

Cachet by Lloyd Ferrell, sponsored by the Pearl Harbor Chapter No. 112, USCS.

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