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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 Ship --------- Category

 

		N/A	1941-03-01 USPO 4-bar Cancel "Naval Hospital League Is. Br." Philadelphia PA
			Keel Laying

Cachet by Dr. S. E. Hutnick

 

N/A		N/A	1941-03-01 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "GRUNION / KEEL LAID" USS Falcon ASR-2
			Keel Laying

Cachet by Edgar P. Simmons and Fielding. From the David Kent collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1941-03-01 USPO Duplex Cancel Groton CT
			Keel Laying

Cachet by Edgar P. Simmons and Fielding.

 

N/A		N/A	1941-03-01 USPO Machine Cancel Groton CT
			Keel Laying

Cachet by Edgar P. Simmons and Fielding.

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-22 USPO Machine Cancel Groton CT
			Launching

Cachet by Dr. S. E. Hutnick

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-22 USPO Machine Cancel Groton CT
			Launching

Cachet by Gow C. Ng

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-22 USPO Machine Cancel Groton CT
			Launching

Cachet by William F. Spader

 

N/A		N/A	1942-04-11 Locy Type FDC P "USS GRUNION / FIRST DAY" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. G-32
			Commissioning

Censored. Add-on cachet by Alton (Budd) M. Arrington

 

N/A		N/A	1942-04-11 Locy Type FDC P "USS GRUNION / FIRST DAY" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. G-32
			Commissioning

Blue cachet by K. E. Streeter

 

N/A		N/A	1942-04-11 USPO Machine Cancel Groton CT
			Commissioning

Cachet by William F. Spader

 

		N/A	1942-04-11 USPO Machine Cancel Groton CT
			Commissioning

Light blue cachet by K. E. Streeter

 

		N/A	1942-04-11 USPO Machine Cancel Groton CT
			Commissioning

Dark blue cachet by K. E. Streeter

 

N/A		N/A	1942-04-11 Locy Type FDC P "USS GRUNION / FIRST DAY" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. G-32
			Commissioning

Hand painted cachet by Mae Weigand

 

N/A		N/A	1942-11-11 Locy Type 3z "LOST IN / ACTION"
			Memorial

Note:

 

N/A		N/A	1942-12-07 USPO Machine Cancel Groton CT
			Memorial for the four submarines on Eternal Patrol since Dec 7 1941 USS Perch SS-176, USS Sealion SS-195, USS Grunion SS-216 and USS Shark SS-174

Cachet by McGee

 

N/A		N/A	1942-12-07 Locy Type 3z (BBT) "1ST YEAR OF / WORLD WAR2"
			Memorial for the four submarines on Eternal Patrol since Dec 7 1941 USS Perch SS-176, USS Sealion SS-195, USS Grunion SS-216 and USS Shark SS-174

Note:

 

N/A		N/A	1983-07-30 Locy Type 2t(nu) USS FULTON AS-11
			"On Eternal Patrol"

Cachet by Alton (Budd) M. Arrington

 

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