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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 |
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1955-01-14 |
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Little America, Antarctica |
Printed OSC / 1955 Antarctic Expedition with 2L marking - "FIRST DAY COVER / LITTLE AMERICA", signed by ship’s skipper, CDR Glen Jacobsen, USN. From the John Young collection.
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1955-01-14 |
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Little America, Antarctica |
Printed OSC / 1955 Antarctic Expedition with ship’s 2L marking - "FIRST DAY COVER / LITTLE AMERICA" and 2L marking - "Little America/ Antarctica" posted aboard ATKA on 14 JAN 1955 with signature of A.H. Waite, U.S. Army Signal Corps. He was an observer on this cruise. From the John Young collection.
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1955-01-14 |
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Little America, Antarctica |
Printed OSC/ 1955 Antarctic Expedition franked with 6 cents airmail stamp has “helicopter” cachet, 2L marking - "Helicopter Flight / Atka- Little America", ship’s 2L marking - "FIRST DAY COVER / LITTLE AMERICA". From the John Young collection.
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1955-01-14 |
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Little America, Antarctica |
Stamped OSC / 1955 Antarctic Expedition & ship’s 2L marking - "FIRST DAY COVER / LITTLE AMERICA" along with icebreaker’s corner card (return address stamp). From the John Young collection.
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1955-01-14 |
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Little America, Antarctica |
Embossed 6 cents airmail envelope (UX 18) used by A.H. Waite aboard ATKA has stamped OSC / 1955 Antarctic Expedition with ship’s 2L marking - "FIRST DAY COVER / LITTLE AMERICA". Reverse has Waite’s double penguin “Signal Corps” cachet, signature and 2L marking - "ROUNDED / CAPE HORN" with ship’s type 2r cancel, dated 6 FEB 1955 while she was searching for possible sites along the coast of Marie Byrd Land. From the John Young collection.
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1956-04-24 |
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Collectors request |
Purple rubber stamped cachet. Back is clean
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1959-12-25 |
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Christmas Day 1959 |
Black rubber stamp cachet.
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1959-12-25 |
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Christmas Day 1959 |
Black rubber stamp cachet. Return address from the ship's CO, Cmdr. Buster E. Toon, USN
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1960-08-17 |
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Collectors request |
Note:
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1959-12-25 |
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Christmas Day 1960 |
Black rubber stamp cachet. Return address from the ship's CO, Cmdr. Buster E. Toon, USN
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1961-12-29 |
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Operation Deep Freeze / Task Force 43 |
Black rubber stamp cachet.
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1962-02-21 |
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Operation Deep Freeze / Task Force 43 |
Black rubber stamp cachet.
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1962-12-13 |
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Operation Deep Freeze |
Black rubber stamp cachet.
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1963-11-20 |
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Operation Deep Freeze / Task Force 43 |
Black rubber stamp cachet, signed by the CO, Cmdr. Joseph H. Judith.
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1963-11-22 |
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Operation Deep Freeze / Task Force 43 |
Black rubber stamp cachet, signed by the CO, Cmdr. Joseph H. Judith.
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1963-11-22 |
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Operation Deep Freeze / Task Force 43 |
Black rubber stamp cachet, signed by the CO, Cmdr. Joseph H. Judith.
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1964-08-05 |
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Arctic Operations 1964 |
Black rubber stamp cachet
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1965-11-29 |
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Operation Deep Freeze |
Violet rubber stamp ship's crest
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1965-11-29 |
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Antarctic Operations 1965-66 |
Violet rubber stamp cachet
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1966-05-13 |
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Operation Deep Freeze 1965-66 |
Violet rubber stamp cachet
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