"Late Date" Pearl Harbor Ship Project Page 2

Covers will be listed in chronological order based on the postmark date.

1. 1941 November 01-10
2. 1941 November 11-20
3. 1941 November 21-30
4. 1941 December 1-7

 

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N/A		N/A	1941-11-11 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) USS Thornton AVD-11
			Philatelic Mail

Cachet by Mae Weigand. USS Thornton was Recommissioned on 5 March 1941 following conversion. This is not a Commissioning cover.

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-11 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) USS Thornton AVD-11
			Philatelic Mail

Cachet by Mae Weigand. USS Thornton was Recommissioned on 5 March 1941 following conversion. This is not a Commissioning cover.

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-11 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) USS Thornton AVD-11
			Philatelic Mail

Cachet by Mae Weigand. USS Thornton was Recommissioned on 5 March 1941 following conversion. This is not a Commissioning cover.

			1941-11-11 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) USS Bagley DD-386
			Philatelic Mail

Minkus Cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-12 Locy Type 6erp USS Detroit CL-8
			Sailor's Mail

Note:

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-13 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) USS MacDonough DD-351
			Philatelic Mail

Cacheted.

 

N/A			1941 11-13 USPO Machine Cancel Honolulu, Hawaii USS Oklahoma BB-37
			Sailor Mail

Mailed by S1/c Kenneth H. Sampson, USS Oklahoma, to his sister. He was KIA on 7 Dec 1941.

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-13 USPO Machine Cancel "Navy Yard Sta." Bremerton WA USS Vega AK-17
			Official Mail

After departing Bremerton WA, USS VEGA stopped in Oregon and then left for Honolulu, arriving on 6 Dec 1941.

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-14 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) USS Curtiss AV-4
			Philatelic Mail

Note:

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-14 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) USS Curtiss AV-4
			Philatelic Mail

Note:

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-14 Locy Type 6erp USS Detroit CL-8
			Philatelic Mail

Note:

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-14 Locy Type 6erp USS Detroit CL-8
			Philatelic Mail

Note:

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-14 Locy Type 3 (A-TTB) USS Grebe AM-43
			Philatelic Mail

Cachet by Ted Harrington

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-14 Locy Type 6ep(3) USS Saint Louis CL-49
			Sailor's Mail

Clipper Air Mail

 

N/A			1941-11-15 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB) USS Oklahoma BB-37
			Marine's Mail

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby. See article in Dec 2018 USCS LOG about this cover.

 

N/A			1941-11-16 Locy Type 6ep(2) (“AT SEA”) USS Arizona BB-39
			Sailor Mail

From S1/c William Robert Chappell, who survived Pearl Harbor. He was then assigned to ALYWIN and in Sept. 1942 transferred to the destroyer DEHAVEN. Chappell was KIA on board DEHAVEN on 1 Feb. 1943 when the ship was sunk. He was born c1922 in Paducah, Kentucky, but moved to Norwood, Ohio with family. The cover is addressed to Margaret Jane ("Mickey") Gossin (1924-1997). William and Margaret were married in Reno, NV in August 1942, just before he reported to DEHAVEN.

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-16 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) USS Montgomery DM-17
			Philatelic Mail

Postal card.

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-16 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) USS Montgomery DM-17
			Philatelic Mail

Add-on Cachet by Tom Morrissey.

 

N/A			1941-11-16 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) USS Northampton CA-26
			Sailor's Mail

The ship itself was not at Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec 1941, but one of her scout planes was attacked by a plane from the attacking force.

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-17 Locy Type 3(A-BTT) USS Castor AKS-1
			Philatelic Mail

Cachet by Leonard Borkowski

 

N/A			1941-11-17 Locy Type 3(A-TTB) USS Grebe AM-43
			Sailor's Mail

Note:

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-17 Locy Type 6e(3) USS Honolulu CL-48
			Sailor's Mail

Air Mail.

 

N/A			1941-11-17 Locy Type 7qt(2) USS Maryland BB-46
			Sailor's Mail

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-17 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. O-7e USS Oklahoma BB-37
			Philatelic Mail

Note:

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-18 Locy Type 3z(BBT) USS Pennsylvania BB-38
			Philatelic Mail

The typed annotation by a collector/dealer is the only connection to the ship.

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-18 Locy Type 3(A-BBT) USS West Virginia BB-48
			Philatelic Mail

Cachet by George V. Sadworth

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-19 Locy Type 3(A-BTT) USS Helena CL-50
			Philatelic Mail

Note:

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-20 Locy Type 6epru USS Argonne AG-31
			Philatelic Mail

Note:

 

N/A			1941-11-20 Locy Type 3(AC-TBB) USS Patterson DD-392
			Business Reply Mail

 

N/A			1941-11-20 Locy Type 3(A-TBT) USS Phoenix CL-46
			Sailor's Mail

Air Mail. Addressed to David R. Kingsley, later posthumously awarded Medal of Honor, 9 April 1945.

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-20 Locy Type 3(AC-BBB) "THANKSGIVING / DAY" USS Vestal AR-4
			Sailor's Mail

Note:

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-20 Locy Type 3(A-BTB) USS Ward DD-139
			Philatelic Mail

Cacheted

 

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