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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

			1934-07-02 Locy Type FDPS F USCS Catalog Illustration G-26
			First Day Postal Service

Notes:

			1934-10-27 Locy Type 3s (BC-BTT) NAVY DAY
			Navy Day

Notes: Cachet Maker: Raymond R Freshwater.
Cachet also features USS Constitution

			1934-10-27 Locy Type 3s (BC-BTT) "NAVY DAY / "
			Navy Day 1934

Kraus Cachet

			1934-11-28 Locy Type F (USCS Illustration G-26) Killer: FLEET WELCOME / HOME WEEK Locy Type 3s (BC-BTT)
			Fleet Week

Notes: Cachet Maker: Sarah Litton

No Image			1934-12-17 Locy Type F "HAIL-MACON / OUR SKY QUEEN" USCS Catalog Illustration G-26
			USS MACON

Crosby Cachet

			1935-01-01 Locy Type F (USCS Illustration G-26) Killer: A HAPPY / NEW YEAR Locy Type 3s (BC-BTT) Killer: SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA
			New Year's Day

Notes: Cachet Makers: International Exchange Club and C Wright Richell

			1935-02-08 Locy Type F (USCS Illustration G-26) Killer: IN MEMORIAM / EDWIN DENBY Locy Type 3s (BC-BTT) Killer: SAN PEDRO / CALIF.
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 16 Edwin Denby and Robert L Manley
Not sure what role, if any, D. D, Jagyi and Lloyd Nace had in creating the cachet.

			1935-02-12 Locy Type F "WITH MALICE / TOWARD NONE" USCS Catalog Illustration G-26 Locy Type SLPts (28x3) Locy Type 3s (BC-BTT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIF."
			Lincoln's Birthday

Manley Lincoln's Birthday Cachet...SL type mark above cachet...addressed to USS PENNSYLVANIA BB-38
Back purple rubberstamp Manley return address...Type 3s strike...Blue rubberstamp Bernstein return address

			1935-02-22 Locy Type F (USCS Illustration G-26) Killer: FIRST IN WAR / FIRST IN PEACE Locy Type 3s (BC-BTT) Killer: SAN PEDRO / CALIF
			Washington's Birthday

Notes:

			1935-02-27 Locy Type 3s (BC-BTT) "LAT 33-20 / LONG 118-57" Locy Type F (Killers only) "TOWING TARGET- / CARRIERS FIRING" USCS Catalog Illustration G-26
			Category

Unknown Cachet, possibly Powell
Back SAN PEDRO CALIF machine 1935-03-08
Pencil notation "No more Mason cachets - (signed) Powell"...Green Bryd Powell return

			1935-03-11 Locy Type 3s (BC-BTT) "REST IN / PEACE" Locy Type P USCS Catalog Illustration G-26a
			USS MACON ZRS-5 loss

Purple USS MACON Loss Cachet
Back green rubberstamp "131"...Black pen notation...TERMINAL ISLAND CA PARCEL POST double ring 1935-03-13

			1935-03-25 Locy Type F "CHANGE OF / COMMAND" USCS Catalog Illustration G-26 Locy Type 3s (BC-BTT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIF"
			Category

Richell Cachet
Back type 3 cancel...Violet rubberstamp Theo Harrington return

			1935-04-02 Locy Type SLPb (61x6) Locy Type F "MINESWEEPER/43 / BASEFOR.U-S-FLT" USCS Catalog Illustration G-26 Locy Type P USCS Catalog Illustration G-26a ("T" removed "43" added) Locy Type 3s (BC-BTT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Richell Cachet
Front Rep pencil signature...Violet rubberstamps "MAIL CLERK"..."VIA AIR MAIL"
Back blue type 3s mark

No Image			1935-05-25 Locy Type SLPb (61x6)
			Category

Back violet rubberstamp Wm. Judisch U.S.C.S. return...PLAINFIELD N.J. RECd. CDS 1935-06-01

			1935-05-30 Locy Type F (USCS Illustration G-26) MAY THEY / REST IN PEACE
			Memorial Day

Notes: Cachet Maker: William S Linto

			1935-10-09 Locy Type 3s (BC-BTT) LEIF ERICK / SON DAY
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: C Wright Richell and W A Foster
Cover also has an SLP cancel from USS Umpqua ATO-25 dated April 28, 1936.

			1935-10-28 Locy Type 3s (BC-BTT) LOS ANGELES / HARBOR
			Navy Day

Notes:

			1935-11-28 Locy Type 3s (BC-BTT) "THANKS / GIVING DAY"
			Thanksgiving Day 1935

Unknown Cachet
Back purple rubberstamp Theo Harrington return

			1935-11-28 Locy Type 3s (BC-BTT) "THANKS / GIVING DAY"
			Thanksgiving Day 1935

Unknown Cachet
Back violet rubberstamp Theo Harrington return

No Image			1936-01-01 Locy Type 3s (BC-BTT) "HAPPY / NEW YEAR"
			New Years Day 1936

Notes:

			1936-02-22 Locy Type 3s (BC-BTT) "SANPEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Back is clean

			1936-06-14 Locy Type 3 (A-TTB) FIRST DAY / NEW CANCEL
			Flag Day

Notes: Cachet Makers: William F Schlechter, Robert L Manley and W A Foster

			1937-12-27 Locy Type 3 (A-TTB) "SANPEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Note:

			1938-05-01 Locy Type 3 (A-TTB) "SANPEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Ship's 19th Birthday

Frederick Horton Cachet
Back blue rubberstamp Frederick Horton return

No Image			1940-03-19 Locy Type 3 (A-TTB) "SANPEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Back is clean

No Image			1940-09-27 Locy Type 3 (A-TTB) "PEARL HARBOR / T.H."
			Category

Front blue pen notation "RFD. BOX # 145-H"
Back is clean

			1941-05-02 Locy Type 3 (A-TTB)
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: W A Foster and Cuyler W Rickett

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