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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 Ship --------- Category

 

			1961-08-26 Locy Type FDC 2(n)(B,USS)
			First Day in Commission

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N/A		N/A	1963-04-08 Locy Type 2(n)(B,USS)
			Official Ship's Cachet

cover sponsored by John E. Humphreys, Jr.

 

N/A		N/A	1966-04-11 Locy Type 2(n)(B,USS)
			Add-On Cachet

Cachet by - Roger A. Wentworth

 

N/A		N/A	1966-09-15 Locy Type 2(n)(A,USS)
			Marine's mail

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N/A		N/A	1979-02-19 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. I-17
			1st Day Use of a New Type "F" ship cancel

Cachet Director - Rich Hoffner, Cachet Sponsor - Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

N/A		N/A	1987-09-08 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS)
			Space

Cover Sponsor - Bill Heiser, Sr.

 

No Image			1990-08-21 Locy Type Meter OFR2 (#520230) ZIP 09561
			Category

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			1992-07-08 Locy Type 2-2n+ (FPO AE 09561-1625) Locy Type 9-2n+ (FPO AE 09561-1625)
			Dolphin

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N/A		N/A	1993-04-30 Locy Type LDPS 2-2tn+ (FPO AE 09561-1625)
			Last Day of Postal Service

Cachet by Richard H. Hall. From the Richard F. Hoffner collection.

 

			1993-07-14 Locy Type LDC F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. I-17a "LAST DAY IN COMMISSION / 14 JULY 1993 / Uncommon Valor was / a Common Virtue"
			Decommissioning

Cachet Maker: David A Kent.

 

N/A		N/A	2003-10-18 USPS Pictorial Postmark "USS IWO JIMA Reunion Station" Norfolk, VA
			Reunion for the crewmembers of the USS Iwo Jima LPH-2 and the USS Iwo Jima LHD-7,

Cachet by Rear Admiral Byrd Chapter No. 11, USCS

 

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