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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

			1933-06-13 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "NAVY YARD / PHILADELPHIA" USS Indianapolis CA-35
			Message from the Navy Mail Clerk

The message reads:
"Mr. Parker,
In answer to your question: Pres. Roosevelt will embark at Eastport, Me., on 30 June 1933 for a short inspection cruise of 3 or 4 days.
He will disembark at the mouth of the Potomac on 3 July. The Bernadou [DD-153] and Ellis [DD-154] will convoy this ship. You may
send me as many covers as you like for any occasion only write in pencil on each cover what you want. I don't use anything but location
in the killer bars. I was hoping someone would send me a suggestion for a special cachet on the Presidential cruise but no one has
offered any. If I can think of something I'll have a special cachet made on the Linotype."
[signed on front] L. Iverson, N.M.C.

			1933-07-04 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "ANNAPOLIS / MD."
			Independence Day 1933

Note:

No Image			1934-04-30 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "CHRISTOBAL / CANAL ZONE"
			Category

Note:

			1934-05-06 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "ENROUTE GTM / -O.BAY AREA."
			USS MACON

Note:

No Image			1934-05-20 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "GUANTANAMO / BAY, CUBA"
			Category

Signed by NMC

			1934-05-31 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "REVIEWING / U.S.FLEET"
			Fleet Review

Note:

No Image			1934-08-14 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "NEWPORT R.I. / "
			Category

Signed by NMC

			1934-09-22 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "NEW ORLEANS / LOUISIANA"
			Port Visit New Orleans, LA

Thurman / Canaday Cachet
Back explanation of loss...Thurman return

			1935-07-04 Locy Type SLKb (48x3) SCOUTING FORCE U.S. FLEET Duplex
			Independence Day 1935

Note:

			1935-10-12 Locy Type 3 "PROVIDENCE / RI" USS Tillman DD-135
			Columbus Day

Note: USS Indianapolis ("SAN PEDRO / CALIF") postmark is on the back of the cover, dated 10/31/1935 along with a Type 6 "US Fleet Scouting Force" postmark.

			1935-10-31 Locy Type 3 (B-TTT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIF"
			Navy Day

Notes: Cachet Maker: C. J. (Jimmie) Leopard.
Front of the cover has a postmark from USS Arizona BB-39. Back of the cover also has a postmark from U.S. Fleet Scouting Force.

			1937-08-03 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "SAN / FRANCISCO"
			Category

Official Business

			1937-10-26 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) "OAKLAND / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Official Business

			1940-07-21 Locy Type 7
			Category

Official Business

			1943-10-21 Locy Type 2z*
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1943-12-13 Locy Type 9v Pearl Harbor Navy Yard (128) Locy Type 9vz 1943-12-15 USPO MULTNOMAH, ORE. Registered mark
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1944-01-16 Locy Type 2z*
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1944-02-15 Locy Type 2z*
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1944-05-25 Locy Type 2z*
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1944-07-19 Locy Type 2z*
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1944-09-09 Locy Type 2z*
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

		No Image	2004-08-20
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: USCS Chapter 75 USS Kalamazoo

			2004-08-21 USPS Pictorial "USCS Convention Station" Indianapolis, IN
			Honoring the USS Indianapolis

Roger A. Wentworth

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