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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	Postmark Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text --------- Cachet Category

N/A		N/A	1973-12-01 USPS Machine Cancel Pascagoula MS
			Launching

Cachet by the USS America Chapter No. 71, USCS

N/A		N/A	1973-12-01 USPS 4-bar Pascagoula MS
			Launching

Cachet by Frederick L. Karcher

N/A		N/A	1978-10-13 Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS)
			Navy Day 1978

Cachet by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

N/A		N/A	1979-01-03 Locy Type 2-1(n)(USS)
			Uncle Sam

Cachet by Herbert C. Gordon

N/A		N/A	1993-11-20 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS)
			Invasion of Tarawa

Cachet by the Artopage Covers

N/A		N/A	1993-11-20 Locy Type 2-1(n+)(USS)
			Invasion of Tarawa

Cachet by the Steve Henderson

N/A		N/A	2008-06-30 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-10
			100th Anniversary of the Great White Fleet

Ships cachet, Collectors request by Wolfgang Hechler

N/A		N/A	2009-03-31 USPS Pictorial Postmark "Decommissioning Day Station" San Diego CA
			Decommissioning

Cachet by Greytcovers. Signed by the CO.

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