BISMARCK SEA CVE 95

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

USS BISMARCK SEA CVE-95
Commissioned May 20 1944
SUNK (Kamikaze) February 21 1945
318 of her crew were lost with the ship and remain on duty

Naval Covers

This section lists active links to the pages displaying covers associated with the ship. There should be a separate set of pages for each name of the ship (for example, Bushnell AG-32 / Sumner AGS-5 are different names for the same ship so there should be one set of pages for Bushnell and one set for Sumner). Covers should be presented in chronological order (or as best as can be determined).

Since a ship may have many covers, they may be split among many pages so it doesn't take forever for the pages to load. Each page link should be accompanied by a date range for covers on that page.

Covers Page 1 (1945)

Postmarks

This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a separate set of postmarks for each incarnation of the ship (ie, for each entry in the "Ship Name and Designation History" section). Within each set, the postmarks should be listed in order of their classification type. If more than one postmark has the same classification, then they should be further sorted by date of earliest known usage.

A postmark should not be included unless accompanied by a close-up image and/or an image of a cover showing that postmark. Date ranges MUST be based ONLY ON COVERS IN THE MUSEUM and are expected to change as more covers are added.

>>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the existing example.

Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Date From to Date To	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

ALIKULA BAY

Post Office Established May 10 1944 - Disestablished February 21 1945

NO ALIKULA BAY POSTMARKS
AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME

POSTMARK DATE

Note:

BISMARK SEA

Locy Type
2z

1945-01-27

Censored wartime (WWII) use

Other Information

BISMARCK SEA earned 3 Battle Stars (WWII)
* Marshall Islands operation, August 1944
* Leyte operation
Lingayen Gulf landings January 1945
* Iwo Jima operation, February 1945

NAMESAKE - A section of the southwest Pacific Ocean northeast of New Guinea and northwest of New Britain. During World War II it was the site of a major naval battle (March 2–3, 1943) in which the Japanese fleet was completely destroyed

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