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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	1942-09-26
			Ship Launching

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		No Image	1944-04-12 Locy Type 7z*
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use
Addressed to USS WASP

			1944-08-22 Locy Type 7z*
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

		No Image	1945-05-05 Locy Type 3z
			Official Business

Posted from another ship or station...Ship did not carry this device

			1945-05-23 Locy Type 9efsu 1945-05-24 New York NY 10548 Br. 1945-05-28 Washington D.C. Registered Washington D.C. U.S. Fleet Post Office
			Official Business

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			1945-09-06 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. L-33
			Tokyo Bay

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			1945-09-06 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. L-33b 1945-09-17 Burke VA 4-bar
			Tokyo Bay

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			1945-09-06 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. L-33c
			Tokyo Bay

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			1945-09-06 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. L-33i
			Tokyo Bay

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			1945-09-16 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. L-33
			Tokyo Bay

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			1945-09-28 Locy Type 2z
			Category

V-Mail

			1945-12-25 Locy Type 2# (Br. #16094)
			Christmas 1945

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			1955-10-31 Locy Type 2
			U.S. Navy

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			1956-08-04 Locy Type 2 Locy Type 9efu
			Aircraft Carrier

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			1963-02-12 Locy Type 7qt(n+u) (CVA,USS)
			Abraham Lincoln

USCS Chapter 3 Cachet

			1967-07-04 Locy Type 2(n) (CVS,USS)
			Independence Day 1967

Beck Cachet

			1968-10-25 Locy Type 7qt(n+u) (CVS,USS)
			Official Business

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			1970-07-20 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (CVT,USS)
			Ship's Crest

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			1972-06-12 Locy Type 7dit(n+u) (POW/MIA)
			Category

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			1973-02-17 Locy Type 7qt(n+u) (CVT/USS)
			Ship's 30th Anniversary

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			1977-05-04 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (CVT,USS)
			Category

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			1978-01-30 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (CVT,USS) USPS Machine North Jersey, NJ
			Ship's Crest

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			1984-11-15 Locy Type 2-1(n+) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. L-33e Locy Type 9-1 (n+u) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. L-33g
			Category

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No Image			1991-04-15 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (A,D1,USS)
			The eagle triumphant / Victory in the Gulf

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			1991-11-26 Locy Type LDC 2-1(n+)
			Last Day in Commission

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