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Covers should be listed in chronological order. Use the postmark date or best guess.

NOTE: "The commissioning cancel B-57 has been seen in mirror image form. The Mail Clerk was a collector and created many backdated covers during 1942-43 with apparent historic dates. Sunk by torpedo in Mediterranean." USCS Postmark Catalog 5th Ed.
This collection was received by Steve Shay, Secretary USCS, from a family member of Chief Lance.
 

 
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 Ship --------- Category

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-08 Locy Type 3 (A-OTO) "WE ARE / AT WAR"
			War is declared

WWII Patriotic cachet by

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-10 Locy Type 3 (A-OTO) "REPULSE / SUNK"
			HMS REPULSE is sunk by Japanese bombers.

WWII Patriotic cachet by

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-10 Locy Type 3 (A-OTO) "PRINCE OF / WALES SUNK"
			HMS PRINCE OF WALES is sunk by Japanese bombers.

WWII Patriotic cachet by

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-11 Locy Type 3 (A-OTO) "CAPT KELLY / OUR HERO"
			Captain Colin P. Kelly, Jr., DFC.

WWII Patriotic cachet by

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-11 Locy Type 3 (A-OTO) "WAR / WITH AXIS"
			World War II

WWII Patriotic cachet by

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-12 Locy Type 3 (A-OTO) "JAPS SEIZE / P. I. BASES"
			World War II

WWII Patriotic cachet by George V. Sadworth

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-14 Locy Type 3 (A-OTO) "USMC WAKE IS / REPULSE JAPS"
			World War II

WWII Patriotic cachet by George V. Sadworth

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-14 Locy Type 3 (A-OTO) "M'THUR BEATS / 14 ATTACKS"
			World War II

WWII Patriotic cachet by Walter G. Crosby

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-15 Locy Type 3 (A-OTO) "KNOX REPORTS / P.H. NOT ALERT"
			William F. Knox, 47th Secretary of the Navy

Cachet by George V. Sadworth

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-22 Locy Type 3 (A-OTO) "CHURCHILL IN / WASH. D. C."
			Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of England

WWII Patriotic cachet by

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-23 Locy Type 3 (A-OTO) "WAKE ISLAND / FALLS"
			433 US personnel were captured.

WWII Patriotic cachet by George V. Sadworth

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-23 Locy Type 3 (A-OTO) "JAPS LAND ON / WAKE ISLAND"
			The Battle for Wake Island.

WWII Patriotic cachet by Walter G. Crosby

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-23 Locy Type 3 (A-OTO) "M'THUR STOPS / 100000 JAPS"
			The Battle of the Bataan Peninsula and the island of Corregidor.

WWII Patriotic cachet by Walter G. Crosby

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-25 Locy Type 3 (A-OTO) "USMC WAKE IS / SURRENDERS"
			The Battle for Wake Island.

WWII Patriotic cachet by George V. Sadworth

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-25 Locy Type 3 (A-OTO) "HONG KONG / FELL TO-DAY"
			British Crown colony of Hong Kong surrenders.

Cachet by George V. Sadworth

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-25 Locy Type 3 (A-OTO) "MERRY / CHRISTMAS"
			Christmas Day.

Cachet by George V. Sadworth

 

N/A		N/A	1941-12-25 Locy Type 3 (A-OTO) "MERRY / CHRISTMAS"
			Christmas Day.

Cachet by George V. Sadworth

 

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