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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

		No Image	1941-04-28 Locy Type 9x USS WILLIAM P. BIDDLE AP-15
			Keel Laying

Hutnick Cachet

No Image		No Image	1943-03-25 Locy Type 3z
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use
Posted from another ship or station...Ship did not carry this device

			1943-05-07 Locy Type 2z*
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1943-05-27 Locy Type 2z*
			Official Business

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			1943-08-19 Locy Type 7z*
			Sailor Mail

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1944-08-15 Locy Type Fz USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-Z4
			Official Business

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			1945-03-24 Locy Type 7z*
			Sailor Mail

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1945-06-18 Locy Type 7z*
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1945-06-21 Locy Type 7z*
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1945-09-12 Locy Type 7z*
			"I AIM TO HIT! I BET YOU!"

Lupton cachet

			1951-02-05 Locy Type FDPS 2r USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. E-27
			First Day Postal Service

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			1952-01-18 Locy Type 2r USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. E-27c
			Sailor Mail

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			1952-11-14 Locy Type 2r USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. E-27b
			Category

Cachet by Winfred M. Grandy.

			1955-05-01 Locy Type 7r
			Category

Note: Cachet is thermographed.

			1960-09-20 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. E-27h
			Category

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			1962-09-20 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (CVS,USS) 1962-09-22 Bayonne NJ Slogan "PRAY / FOR / PEACE"
			Project Mercury Recovery

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			1966-03-04 Locy Type 7t(n+u) (CVS,USS)
			Ship's Crest

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			1967-02-28 Locy Type 2(n+) (CVS,USS)
			Ship's Crest

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			1967-10-27 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (CVS,USS) Locy Type 9fu USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. E-27g
			Welcome to Norfolk

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