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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

			1947-10-01 Locy Type 2tnu Locy Type 9efnu USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. C-131d
			Ship Commissioning

Cachet Maker: Diana

N/A			1950-11-27 Locy Type 7tnu
			Christmas card

Sailor mail

			1951-02-05 Locy Type 2tnu
			Category

Note:

			c1951-11-30 Locy Type 2 USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. C-131
			Category

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			c1952-02-02 Locy Type 7tnu
			Category

Note: Device shows CVB return address CVA...Reclassified CVA 1952

			1956-08-07 Locy Type 2n+ USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. C-131b Locy Type 9efn+u USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. C-131e
			Ship Commemorative - USS Salem CA-139

Cachet Maker: William T (Duke) Gmahle
Cachet is thermographed.

			1965-02-24 Locy Type 2(n+) (USS) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. C-131f
			Category

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			1965-04-21 Locy Type 2(n+) (USS) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. C-131f
			Category

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			1969-02-19 Locy Type 7qt(n+u) (USS)
			Category

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			1971-10-07 Locy Type 7dit(n+u) (POW/MIA)
			Category

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			1973-08-24 Locy Type 2(n+) (USS) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. C-131g
			Category

Cachet Maker: Howard Tiffner

			1983-09-12 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (D2,USS)
			Category

Cachet Maker: Tazewell G Nicholson. Although there are no markings as who the cachet maker was, Chuck French confirmed that it was Nicholson.

			1985-10-01 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS,USN)
			Farewell to Norfork

Nicholson Cachet

No Image		No Image	1989-12-29 Type 2-1(n+) (USS)
			Christmas Day

Cachet Maker: Roger A. Wentworth

			1990-04-30 Locy Type LDC 2-1p(n+)
			Last Day in Commission

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No Image			1990-04-30 Locy Type LDC 2-1p(n+)
			Last Day in Commission

Rogak Cachet

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