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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		No Image	1941-01-25 USS Prairie AD-15 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "PHILA. / PA."
			Keel Laying

Cachet by Dr. S. E. Hutnick

			1944-09-09 Locy Type 2z 1944
			Official Business

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			1945-05-02 Locy Type 2z 1945
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1945-05-24 Locy Type 2z 1945
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1945-09-16 Locy Type 2az
			Category

Additional "TOKYO BAY" sl added

			1945-09-19 Locy Type 2az
			Category

Additional "TOKYO BAY" sl added

			1946-02-03 Locy Type 2(n) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-38
			Official Business

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No Image			1947-05-16 Locy Type 2(n) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-38a
			Battleship

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			1947-06-20 Locy Type P USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-38e
			Midshipman's Cruise

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			1947-11-11 Locy Type P USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-38e
			Armistice Day 1947

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No Image			1948-06-15 Locy Type 2(n) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-38a
			Category

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			1948-06-15 Locy Type LDPS 2(n) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-38c
			Last Day Postal Service

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			1948-06-15 Locy Type LDPS 2(n) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-38c
			Last Day Postal Service

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			1951-03-03 Locy Type FDPS 2
			First Day Postal Service

Nicholson Cachet

No Image			1951-06-14 Locy Type 2
			Midshipmen Cruise Helicopter flight from USS MISSOURI BB-63

Back blue "GUARD MAIL"

			1951-06-24 Locy Type 2 Locy Type 9efu
			Category

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			1951-08-15 Locy Type 2
			Category

Postcard use
Memorial Tower, North West Arm, Halifax Nova Scotia

No Image			1955-11-18 Locy Type 2
			Category

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			1988-10-22 Locy Type FDC F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-38f Locy Type FDC 9-1
			First Day in Commission

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			1988-10-22 Locy Type FDC F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-38f "FORWARD / FOR / FREEDOM" Locy Type FDC F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-38 "PCCS (SW) McQUAIN W. / PC 1 MAYES J. / PC 2 RASKA F. / PC 3 WALKER A. / PC SN OLKOWSKI K. / NAVY POSTAL CLERKS"
			Category

Richard W DeRosset.

			1988-10-22 Locy Type FDC F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-38f "FORWARD / FOR / FREEDOM" Locy Type FDC F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-38g "PCCS (SW) McQUAIN W. / PC 1 MAYES J. / PC 2 RASKA F. / PC 3 WALKER A. / PC SN OLKOWSKI K. / NAVY POSTAL CLERKS"
			Category

Richard W DeRosset.
Same cover as above only showing postmarks.

			1988-12-16 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-38h
			Welcome to Norfolk

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			1991-03-28 Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-38l USS BIDDLE CG-34 Locy Type 2-1(n+)
			Welcome Home

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			1991-03-28 Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-38l USS BIDDLE CG-34 Locy Type 2-1(n+)
			Welcome Home

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			1991-09-30 Locy Type LDC F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-38m
			Last Day in Commission

USCS Chapter 98 cachet

			1991-09-30 Locy Type LDC F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-38m Locy Type LDC 2-1(n+)
			Last Day in Commission

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