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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	1995-04-10 USPS 4-bar Pascagoula MS
			Keel Laying

Cachet by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

N/A		N/A	1996-04-20 USPS 4-bar Pascagoula MS
			Christening

Cachet by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

			1997-06-28 Locy Type FDC F "First Day In Commission / at Galveston, Texas / Named in honor of / Donald K. Ross / Medal of Honor Recipient"
			First Day in Commission

Cachet by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

N/A		N/A	1997-06-28 Locy Type FDC 2-2t(n+) (USS,FPO AE 09586-1288) Locy Type FDC 9-2(n+) (USS,FPO AE 09586-1288)
			First Day in Commission

Cachet by Tom Armstrong. Back is postmarked with the Type F.

 

N/A		N/A	1997-06-28 Locy Type 2-2t(n+) (USS,FPO AE 09586-1288)
			Sailor's Mail

Collection of Tom Armstrong.

 

N/A		N/A	1998-01-28 Locy Type 2-2t(n+) (USS,FPO AE 09586-1288) Locy Type FDC 9-2(n+) (USS,FPO AE 09586-1288)
			Ship's Cachet

Serviced by Wolfgang Hechler

 

N/A		N/A	1999-04-05 Locy Type 2-2t(n+) (USS,FPO AE 09586-1288) Locy Type FDC 9-2(n+) (USS,FPO AE 09586-1288)
			Sailor's Mail

Cachet by C.B. Hall

 

N/A		N/A	1999-10-27 Locy Type 9-2(n+) (USS,FPO AE 09586-1288)
			Navy Day

Cachet by Roger Wentworth

 

N/A		N/A	2003-06-22 Locy Type 2-2t(n+)(USS,FPO AE 09586-1288) Locy Type FDC 9-2(n+)(USS,FPO AE 09586-1288)
			Kiel Week, Ship's cachet

Serviced by Wolfgang Hechler

 

N/A		N/A	2014-04-18 Locy Type 13-2(n+)(USS,FPO AE 09586-1288)
			Collectors request

Ship's cachet

 

N/A		N/A	2017-06-05 Locy Type 13-2(n+) (USS,FPO AE 09586-1288)
			Collectors request

Requested by Alex Hamling

 

N/A		N/A	2017-06-05 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-10
			Collectors request

Requested by Alex Hamling. Backside of the 5 June 2017 cover.

 

N/A		N/A	2017-06-28 Locy Type 13-2(n+)(USS,FPO AE 09586-1288)
			20th Anniversary of Commissioning

Cachet by Robert Jank.

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MISC ROSS Items

 

N/A			1997-06-17 USPS Machine cancel Pascagoula, MS
			Commissioning Invitation

Courtesy of Tom Armstrong

 

N/A			1997-06-28
			Commissioning Seating Card

Courtesy of Tom Armstrong

 

N/A		N/A	1992-06-02
			Rememberence Booklet for Capt. Donald K. Ross, CMH, USN

Courtesy of Tom Armstrong

 

N/A		N/A	1996-08-30 Locy Type 2-2mt(n+) (USS,FPO AP 96697-2820) USS Nimitz CVN-68
			Commemorative cover for the Dedecation of the Donald K. Ross Hall

Courtesy of Tom Armstrong

 

N/A			1996-08-30
			Booklet and Invitation for the Dedication of the Donald K. Ross Hall

Courtesy of Tom Armstrong

 

N/A			1996-08-30
			"0755: The Heroes of Pearl Harbor" written by Donald K. & Helen L. Ross.

Courtesy of Tom Armstrong

 

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