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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			1928-04-21 Locy Type 3s
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No Image			1932-02-10 Locy Type 3s "MANILA / P. I."
			Category

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No Image			1932-05-24 Locy Type 3s "MANILA / P. I."
			Category

Back pencil notations "165"..."B"..."AM-19"..."3s"...Purple rubberstamp "Rcd JUNE 18"
Black pen notation "4"

			1933-01-01 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "PEARL / HARBOR T.H."
			New Years Day 1933

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No Image			1933-10-27 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "PEARL HARBOR / T.H."
			Navy Day 1933

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No Image			1934-01-19 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "PEARL HARBOR / T.H."
			Category

Back black printed return address to Harlow Higgins

 

			1934-08-27 Locy Type 3s (BC-BTT) PORTLAND / OREGON USS Swan AVP-7
			Port Visit - Portland OR

Notes: Cachet Makers: Myron F McCamley and Robert L Manley
Cachet also mentions USS Avocet AVP-4

		No Image	1934-08-28 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "PORTLAND / ORE"
			Port visit

McCamley Cachet

No Image			1934-11-12 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT)
			Category

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			1935-07-04 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "PEARL / HARBOR T.H."
			Independence Day 1935

USCS Chapter 26 Cachet

 

			1935-12-25 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) PEARL / HARBOR T H
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Richard Dumonte
Cachet is thermographed.

			1937-05-12 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "AT / SEA"
			Eclipse Expedition

R/S cachet for the Eclipse Expedition. The Eclipse Expedition was a joint project between the US Navy and the National Geographic Society held on June 8 1937 at the Pheonix Group of the Canton Islands to view and study the total eclipse of the sun that was to take place that day.

			1937-06-08 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "CANTON / ISLAND"
			Solor Eclipse

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			1937-09-08 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "PEARL / HARBOR"
			Category

Harrington Cachet addressed to USS GREBE
Back is clean

 

			1937-10-26 Locy Type 3r (AC-TBB) TUTUILA / SAMOA
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: Trans-Pacific Cover Society and Royal C Hendricks

No Image			1938-05-30 Locy Type 3r (AC-TBB) "PEARL / HARBOR TH"
			Category

Note: Hand painted cachet

 

			1938-07-26 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) MIDWAY / ISLAND
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: Desmond D Jagyi and Jimmie Allen

			1938-09-05 Locy Type 3r (AC-TBB) "PEARL / HARBOR TH"
			Category

Unknown Cachet
Back black rubberstamp H.D. Roloff return address...Pencil notations "AVP4","034"

 

			1938-09-17 Locy Type 3r (AC-TBB) "PEARL / HARBOR T H"
			Ship Birthday

Notes: Cachet Makers: C Wright Richell, Raymond A Aiken and Walter Czubay
Notation on the back indicates that 44 covers with this cachet were canceled

			1938-09-17 Locy Type 3r (AC-TBB) "PEARL / HARBOR T H"
			Ship Birthday

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			1939-08-25 Locy Type 3r (AC-TBB) "SAN PEDRO / CAL"
			Category

Hand painted cachet

No Image			1941-04-21 Locy Type 3r (AC-TBB) "SAN DIEGO / CAL"
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			1941-05-01 Locy Type 3r (AC-TBB) SAN DIEGO / CAL
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: J Robert Bund and Robert Stoner

 

No Image			1941-06-13 Locy Type 3r (AC-TBB)
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			1941-08-28 Locy Type 3r (AC-TBB)
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			1943-12-14 Locy Type 3z (BTT)
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

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