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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

			1935-02-12 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "NAVY YARD / BREMERTON"
			Lincoln's Birthday

Cachet by Lt. A. D. Hunter, USN.

			1935-05-28 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "PEARL / HARBOR T.H."
			Port Visit - Hawaii

Cachet Maker: USCS Chapter 26 John Rodgers

			1935-06-27 Locy Type P USCS Postmark Catalog Illus C-7k "U.S.S / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

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			1935-07-04 Locy Type P USCS Postmark Catalog Illus C-7k "U.S.S / CALIFORNIA"
			Independence Day

Cachet Maker: Leonard Rogers
Provisional postmark is a 5hk for Battle Force United States Fleet with "U.S.S. / CALIFORNIA" in the killer bars.

			1935-07-06 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "SAN / FRANCISCO"
			Category

Cachet Maker: Liddell - add on cachet

			1935-09-09 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "LONG BEACH / CALIFORNIA"
			State Admission Day

Cachet Maker: Clyde Welch

			1935-09-09 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "LONG BEACH / CALIFORNIA"
			State Admission Day

Cachet Maker: Clyde Welch

			1935-10-16 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "SAN / FRANCISCO"
			100th Birthday William Shafter

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			1936-07-04 Locy Type 7 USCS Postmark Catalog Illus C-7a
			Independence Day

Cachet Maker: H S Groat

			1936-08-10 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "BREMERTON / WASH"
			Ship's Birthday

Cachet Makers: Donald A. Yontz and M.T. Woolsey USCS Chapter 40

			1936-08-13 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "LOS ANGELES / CAPTURED"
			Los Angeles captured by Commodore Robert Stockton

USCS Chapter 14 Cachet

			1936-10-12 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "LONG BEACH / CALIF"
			Columbus Day 1936

Cachet Maker Samuel Stein

			1937-07-17 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "SEATTLE / WASHINGTON"
			Category

Crosby Cachet

			1937-09-04 Locy Type 7 USCS Catalog Illustration C-7a
			Official Business

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No Image			1937-10-27 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT)
			Navy Day 1937

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No Image			1937-11-11 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT)
			Armistice Day 1937

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			1938-03-17 Locy Type 2s (C)
			St Patrick's Day

Cachet Maker: William S Linto.
Cachet is thermographed. Linto Cachet No. 67-A. 32 covers issued. This is cover No. 24.

No Image			1938-03-31 Locy Type 9v (C) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. C-7e 1938-04-02 USPO Honolulu, Hawaii registered 1938-04-07 USPO San Pedro, Calif. registered
			Clipper Service

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No Image			1938-08-01 Locy Type 2s(C)
			Category

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			1938-09-09 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "BREMERTON / WASH"
			State Admission Day

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No Image		No Image	1939-02-03 Cuban postmark
			Port Visit

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No Image			1939-04-09 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)
			Category

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			1939-07-04 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "AT SAN / FRANCISCO"
			Category

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby.
Cachet is thermographed.

N/A		N/A	1939-07-25 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "AT-SEATTLE / WASHINGTON"
			Fleet Week - Seattle 1939

Cachet by M. Fay Muridge.

			1940-04-28 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "PEARL HARBOR / OAHU T. H."
			Namesake

Hendricks Cachet

			1940-11-30 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)
			Official Business

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No Image			1940-12-25 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)
			Christmas Day

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No Image			1941-07-27 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)
			Category

Back typed notation "253"

No Image			1941-10-18 Locy Type 7 USCS Postmark Catalog Illus C-7a
			Category

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No Image			1942-02-16 Locy Type 3z
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use...Front pencil notation "CALIF."...Green pen notation "U.S.S. CALIFORNIA"
Back blue YORK PA RECEIVED CDS 1942-02-27...Green pen notation "404"...Black rubberstamp notation "4151"

			1943-06-08 Locy Type 9vz 1943-06-13 WASHINGTON D. C. REG. SEC. 1943-06-14 Navy Dept. Mail Division Washington D.C.
			Official Business

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			1943-12-03 Locy Type 7rz
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1945-11-15 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) "CAPE TOWN / S. AFRICA"
			Category

Cachet Maker: Glenn W Dye (Grey Cover Service).
Cachet is thermographed.

			1946-03-04 Locy Type 2(n) Locy Type 9efu Locy Type 9efw USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. C-7c
			Category

Cachet Makers: Donald R Graf

No Image			Date Unknown Locy Type PPR USCS Postmark Catalog Illus C-7p
			Category

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