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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 --------- Cachet Category

			1933-02-19 Locy Type 6
			Category

Post Card...Typed notation upper left
Back typed notation "PLACE CACHET HERE"...Pencil notations "None"..."Recd 2-18-33"

N/A		N/A	1933-04-24 Locy Type 5hks(C) "AT SEA / FIRE L.R.B.P."
			87th Anniversary of The Mexican War

Cachet by Edward Hacker. LRBP = Long Range Battle Practice

No Image			1933-06-14 Locy Type 5hks (C) "FLAG DAY / BREMERTON"
			Flag Day 1933

Back BREMERTON WASH NAVY YARD STA machine 1933-06-14

			1933-07-04 Locy Type 5hks (C) "BREMERTON / WASHINGTON"
			Independence Day 1933

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N/A		N/A	1933-07-04 Locy Type 8
			Independence Day

Cachet by E. O. Tauer.

No Image			1933-10-12 Locy Type 5hks "Columbus Day / San Pedro"
			Columbus Day

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			1933-11-11 Locy Type 5hks (C) "SAN FRANCISCO / CALIFORNIA"
			Armistice Day

Cachet Makers: E O Tauer and E J Birdsall.

			1933-12-29 Locy Type 5hks (C) "TEXAS ADMIT- / TED TO UNION"
			Texas Admission Day 1933

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			1934-02-12 Locy Type 5hks "A. LINCOLN'S / ANNIVERSARY"
			Lincoln's Birthday

Cachet Makers: E J Birdsall, E O Tauer and John C Kane.
Cachet is signed by John C. Kane, the ship's mail clerk.
No. 10 cover also commemorates FDR's birthday on January 30 1934 and is postmarked from San Pedro CA on that day.

			1934-02-12 Locy Type 5hks "A. LINCOLN'S / ANNIVERSARY"
			President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Same cover as above only showing second cachet.

N/A		N/A	1934-02-22 Locy Type 5hks(C) "WASHINGTONS / BIRTHDAY"
			Washington's Birthday

Cachet by -

N/A			1934-04-30 Locy Type 8
			Category

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			1934-05-31 Locy Type 5hks (C) "FLEET-PASSING / IN REVIEW"
			Fleet Review

Cachet by E. J. Birdsall.

			1934-07-04 Locy Type 5hks (C) "BOSTON / MASS"
			Category

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N/A		N/A	1934-08-28 Locy Type 5hks(C) "OFF VA.COAST / FIRED S.R.B.P."
			SRBP = Short Range Battle Practice

Cachet by Camille Lacombe

N/A		N/A	1934-09-28 Locy Type 7qt
			84th Anniversary of the end of Flogging

Cachet by Camille Lacombe

N/A		N/A	1934-10-27 Locy Type 7qt
			Navy Day

Cachet by Camille Lacombe

			1934-11-09 Locy Type 5hks (C) "LOS ANGELES / HARBOR"
			1934 Cruise

Cachet by E. O. Tauer.

No Image			1934-11-10 Locy Type 7qt
			Welcome Home

Cachet by the Admiral Joseph M. Reeves Chapter No. 14, USCS

			1934-11-11 Locy Type 5hks (C) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Armistice Day 1935

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N/A		N/A	1934-11-11 Locy Type 5hks(C) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Armistice Day

Cachet by E. O. Tauer. Embossed and signed by NMC Tauer.

N/A		N/A	1935-06-14 Locy Type 7qt
			Flag Day

Cachet by Louis R. Diesing, sponsored by the Battleship Oregon Chapter No. 22, USCS

			1935-07-04 Locy Type 5hks (C) "INDEPENDENCE / DAY"
			Independence Day 1935

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No Image			c1936 Locy Type SLKb
			Category

Add-on cachet

			1936-06-06 Locy Type 5hks (C) "HAIL / TEXAS"
			American History Commemorative

Official Opening of the 100th Anniversary Celebration of Texas, Cachet by Desmond D. Jagyi

No Image			1936-07-02 Locy Type 5ahks (C) Stamford TX Machine
			Category

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N/A		N/A	1936-10-02 Locy Type 5hks "ANNI / FIRST BATTLE"
			American History Commemorative

Cachet by Desmond D. Jagyi and William F. Schlechter

			1936-10-03 Locy Type 5hks "BREMERTON / WASHINGTON"
			Launching of the USS Enterprise CV 6

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			1936-10-09 Locy Type SLKb
			USS TEXAS

Hand drawn cachet

			1936-10-22 Locy Type 5hks (C) "HONORING / SAM HOUSTON"
			Category

Cachet by Desmond D Jagyi.

No Image			1936-12-25 Locy Type 5hks (C) "MERRY / CHRISTMAS"
			Christmas Day 1936

Note: Back black rubberstamp ANCS Edwin Lyons return

			1937-02-12 Locy Type 5hks (C) "LOS ANGELES / HARBOR"
			Lincoln's Birthday

Cachet by Ted DeNyse and sponsored by Byrd L Powell.

			1937-05-30 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. T-12p "FIRST DAY / THIS CANCEL"
			Memorial Day

Cachet by Louis R Diesing.

			1937-07-29 Locy Type 7qt ("AT SEA")
			Category

Cachet by Meyer Tuchinsky, sponsored by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

			1937-09-06 Locy Type 5hks (C) "LABOR DAY / BROOKLYN"
			Labor Day

Cachet by Daniel Puglis.

			1937-10-27 Locy Type 5hks (C) "NORFOLK / VA"
			Navy Day

Cachet Maker: Jack McLennan. Cachet is partially thermographed (main lettering).

			1938-03-15 Locy Type 5hks (C) "OLD HICKORY / 1767 - 1845"
			President Andrew Jackson

Cachet by the Associated Naval Cover Collectors.

No Image			1938-07-05 Locy Type 5hks (C) "COPENHAGEN / DENMARK"
			Port Visit

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			1939-04-01 Locy Type 6 Locy Type 9v (C) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. T-12h Locy Type 9efw USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. T-12j Locy Type 9x (C)
			Category

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			1940-06-18 Locy Type 7qt
			Official Business

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			1941-05-03 Locy Type 9v USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. T-12i
			Official Business

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			1941-10-01 Locy Type 7qtz
			Category

Cachet by M. Fay Muridge

			1942-10-03 Locy Type 7qtz
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1942-10-19 Locy Type 3z (TTB)
			Sailor's mail

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1943-05-08 Locy Type 2z*
			Official Business

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			1943-08-20 Locy Type 2z*
			Official Business

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No Image			1945-10-27 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. T-12q
			Navy Day 1945

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			1946-02-07 Locy Type 2(n)
			Official Business

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