CANFIELD DE 262

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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.

    Evarts Class Type GMT Destroyer Escort
    Keel Laid February 23 1943 - Launched April 6 1943

  1. USS CANFIELD DE-262
    Commissioned July 22 1943 - Decommissioned December 21 1945

    Struck from Naval Register January 8 1946
    Sold June 12 1947 for scrap

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.

  1. Covers Page 1     (1944-45)

 

Postmarks

This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a separate set of postmarks for each name and/or commissioning period. 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
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Killer Bar Text

Date From
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Date To
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Locy Type
2z*

1944-04-11

Censored wartime (WWII) use


 

Locy Type
9efu

1945-11-17

Type 2z bars added

 

Other Information

CANFIELD earned 4 Battle Stars for WWII service

NAMESAKE - Leon William Canfield USN (November 9 1915 - November 15 1942)
Canfield enlisted in the Naval Reserve May 13 1940, and after aviation training, was discharged March 4 1941. He reenlisted July 25 1941 for Midshipman training, and was appointed Ensign January 16 1942. Ensign Canfield was killed in action in the Battle of the Solomon Islands November 15 1942

 


 

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