OtherUS Marine Detachment U S Virgin Islands

Cachets should be listed in chronological order based on earliest known usage. Use the postmark date or best guess. This applies to add-on cachets as well.

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HISTORICAL NOTE
The three US Virgin Islands, consists of three islands - St. Thomas; St. Croix and St. John.

 

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N/A		N/A	c1920's
			Postcard

Marine Barracks, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands of United States. Arrived 1917, left 1931.

 

N/A			1937-06-04 Locy Type 9v "F.M.F. Charlotte Amalie, V.I."
			Collectors Request

F.M.F. (Fleet Marine Force), Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands.

 

N/A			1937-06-04 Locy Type 9x "F.M.F. Charlotte Amalie, V.I."
			Collectors Request

F.M.F. (Fleet Marine Force), Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands.

 

N/A			1937-09-07 Locy Type 6eg-(1) Dial - "Fleet Marine Force / Charlotte Amalie V.I."
			Collectors Request

F.M.F. (Fleet Marine Force), Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands. Cachet by the USS California Chapter No. 51, USCS

 

N/A			1940-01-01 Locy Type 6de-(1) Dial - "Charlotte Amalie V.I. / Fleet Mar. Force Station (Sta)"
			US Navy Commissions Tenth Naval District

F.M.F. (Fleet Marine Force), Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands. Cachet by Al Cohen

 

N/A			1941-07-01 Locy Type 6de-(1) Dial - "Charlotte Amalie V.I. / Flt.Mar.Force Sta.Br."
			Collector request

F.M.F. (Fleet Marine Force), Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands.

 

N/A			1942-03-07 Locy Type 2 Dial - "U.S.Mar.Corps / Bourne Field, St. Thomas"
			Collectors request

F.M.F. (Fleet Marine Force), Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands. Built in 1935, expanded in 1941 and closed in 1945.

 

N/A		N/A	1942-06-12 Locy Type 2 Dial - "U.S.Mar.Corps / Bourne Field, St. Thomas"
			Patriotic cachet

F.M.F. (Fleet Marine Force), Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands. Cachet by Walter T. Poppenger

 

N/A			1942-06-27 Locy Type 2 Dial - "Charlotte Amalie, V.I. / U.S.Mar.Corps Air Sta.St.Thom.Br." (1942)
			Censored Marines Mail

F.M.F. (Fleet Marine Force), Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands.

 

N/A			1943-01-27 Locy Type 2 Dial - "Charlotte Amalie, V.I. / U.S.Mar.Corps Sta. St. Thomas Br" (1943)
			Marines Mail

F.M.F. (Fleet Marine Force), Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands.

 

N/A		N/A	1937
			Map of US Virgin Islands

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