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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	1941-06-17 Philadelphia (League Island) PA Marine Barracks
			Launching (Posted 10 days late)

Dr. S. E. Hutnick Cachet

			1942-04-15 Locy Type FDPS 3z (APR WED 15, 1942) "FIRST DAY / MAIL"
			First Day Postal Service

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			1942-12-21 Locy Type 3z (BTB)
			Official Business

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			1943-10-23 Locy Type 9vz New York NY Navy 156 Br. 1943-11-05 Washington D.C. Reg. Sec. Washington D.C. U.S. Fleet Post Office
			Official Business

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			1944-04-08 Locy Type 2z
			Sailor Mail

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1945-04-16 Locy Type 2z
			Official Business

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			1945-07-26 Locy Type 7rz*
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

No Image			1945-10-27 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTB) "NAVY DAY / 1945"
			Battleship

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No Image		No Image	1946-04-03 Locy Type 2(n)
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Kelly Armstrong

			1946-04-18 Locy Type 2(n)
			Category

Add-on cachet by Roger A. Wentworth

N/A		N/A	1946-08-23 Locy Type 2(n)
			Collectors request

Add-on cachet by Stewart Milstein

			1946-12-25 Locy Type 2(n)
			Christmas 1946

Add-on cachet by Roger A. Wentworth

 

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