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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

 

			1941-01-29 Locy Type FDPS 3r "PEARL HARBOR / HAWAII"
			First Day Postal Service

Muridge Cachet

 

			1941-01-29 Locy Type FDPS 3r "PEARL HARBOR / HAWAII" Locy Type FDPS 9x
			First Day Postal Service

Note:

 

No Image			1941-01-29 Locy Type FDPS 3r "PEARL HARBOR / HAWAII"
			First Day Postal Service

Front pencil notation "FIRST-DAY"
Back blue rubberstamp D.D. Jagyi...Black pen notation "#5609"

 

			1941-01-29 Locy Type FDPS 3r (A-BBB)  Killer: PEARL HARBOR / HAWAII Locy Type FDPS 9v Locy Type FDPS 9x
			Category

Notes:

 

No Image		No Image	1941-01-29 Locy Type FDPS 3r (A-BBB) "PEARL HARBOR / HAWAII"
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Kelly Armstrong

 

No Image			1941-05-13 Locy Type 3r (A-BBB) PEARL HARBOR / HAWAII
			Category

Notes:

 

			1941-08-29 Locy Type 3r (A-BBB)
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: J Robert Bund and Robert Stoner
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1942-03-27 Locy Type Fz USCS Catalog Illustration C-40
			Category

Note: censor "W.S.B." was Winston Seaborn Brown (1908-1999), who was XO of the ship at this time.
Front black rubberstamp "AIR MAIL"..."SAILOR MAIL FREE POSTAGE"...Black pen notation "208 1/2"..."2008 1/2"
Back is clean

 

			1943-06-07 Locy Type Fz USCS Catalog Illustration C-40
			Category

The censor “W.S.B.” is the commanding officer Winston Seaborn Brown (1908-1999). He had acted as censor while XO and, per this cover, continued to do that even after taking over as CO.

 

			1944-06-30 Locy Type Fz USCS Catalog Illustration C-40
			Sailor Mail

Sent by TM3/c Lewis Jerome Beers (1922-2015). He joined the crew May 5, 1944 and transferred in Oct. 1945, a few days before the ship was decommissioned.
The censor "CAC" is Lt(jg) Clair A. Callan (1920-2005), who had recently been promoted. He was from Nebraska, and served a term in the House of Representatives 1965-1967.

 

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