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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 --------- Cachet Category

N/A		N/A	1946-02-05 Locy Type 2#
			Collectors request

From the Dennis Pack collection.

N/A		N/A	1946-08-29 Locy Type 2#
			Collectors request

Note:

N/A		N/A	1946-10-27 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. N-21a
			Collectors request

From the Dennis Pack collection.

N/A		N/A	1956-08-26 Locy Type 2e USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. N-2
			Operation DEWLINE 1956

Postmarked from Fairbanks Alaska.

N/A		N/A	1956-12-15 USN Slogan Machine Cancel "U.S. Navy / Operation / Deep Freeze" Pole Station Antarctica
			Operation Deep Freeze II, Task Force 43

Add-on cachet by Richard F. Hoffner

N/A		N/A	1962-08-19 Locy Type 2t(n+u) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. N-21c
			Bearing Sea Patrol

Green rubber stamp cachet. Signed by the CO, CAPT. R.R. Waesche, Jr. 1960-1962. Contributed by Tom Kean.

N/A		N/A	1969-09-06 Locy Type 2t(n+u) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. N-21d
			Rendezvous with SS Manhattan

On this operation, USCGC Northwind became the first surface vessel to transit the Northwest Passage both West-to-East and East-to-West in a single season. On the East-to-West
passage, SS Manhattan became the first commercial vessel to transit the Northwest Passage.

N/A			1971-08-16 Locy Type 2t(n+u) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. N-21d
			Arctic West

Note:

N/A			1971-12-06 Locy Type 2t(n+u) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. N-21d
			Operation DEEPFREEZE 1971

Note:

N/A		N/A	1971-12-06 Locy Type 2t(n+u) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. N-21d
			Operation DEEPFREEZE 1971

From the Dennis Pack collection.

			1972-12-21 Locy Type 2t(n+u) USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration N-21c
			Operation DEEPFREEZE 1972-73

Unknown Cachet. Front pencil notation "Deep Freeze cachet". Back is clean

N/A		N/A	1973-06-25 Locy Type 2t(n+u) USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration N-21d
			Arctic West 1973

Cacheted.

			1978-07-06 Locy Type 2t(n+u) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. N-21c
			Change of Command

Cachet by Clay Leitch

N/A		N/A	1982-05-31 Locy Type 2t(n+u) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. N-21c
			Change of Command

Cachet by Clay Leitch

			1983-05-01 Locy Type 2t(n+u) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. N-21d
			Op. Solid Shield 1983

Cachet by Clay Leitch.

			1983-05-01 Locy Type 2t(n+u) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. N-21d
			Op. Solid Shield 1983 Mine Countermeasures Operations

Cachet by Clay Leitch. Contributed by Tom Kean.

			1983-08-31 Locy Type 2t(n+u) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. N-21d
			Arctic East Summer 1983

Cachet by Clay Leitch. Contributed by Tom Kean.

			1989-01-20 USPS 4-bar Wilmington, NC
			Decommissioning

Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

N/A			2007-05-19 USPS Pictorial Denver CO "Operation Highjump Station"
			60th Anniversary of "Operation Highjump" 75th Anniversary of U.S.C.S.

Robert E. Emrick, Jr.

 

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