Wasp CVS 18 Covers Page 1
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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 Ship --------- Category |
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1943-10-22 |
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Official Business |
Commissioning Detail
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N/A |
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N/A |
1944-12-02 |
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Officer's Mail via Polar Air Mail |
Censored, WWII use. From the Steve Shay collection.
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1944-12-29 |
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Censored, WWII use
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1945-09-15 |
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1945-09-30 |
| Category |
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1945-10-27 |
| Navy Day 1945 |
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No Image |
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1946-01-28 |
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No Image |
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No Image |
1946-02-15 |
| Category |
Note: Add-on cachet by Kelly Armstrong
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1946-11-19 |
| Last Day in Commission |
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1951-10-09 |
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First Day Postal Service (Posted a month late) |
Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson
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1952-05-15 |
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1961-05-08 |
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Note:
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N/A |
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N/A |
1963-05-15 |
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Back-up Recovery Ship |
Add-on Cachet by Wolfgang Hechler
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No Image |
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1964-05-16 |
| Recovery Force |
Cachet by Frederick L. Karcher
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No Image |
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1965-03-15 |
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Category |
Note:
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1965-06-07 |
| Gemini 4 Recovery Force |
Cachet furnished by Morris W. Beck
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N/A |
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N/A |
1965-10-25 |
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GEMINI Recovery Force |
Cachet furnished by Morris W. Beck. From the Jon Howard collection.
Background History - This cover is postmarked for what space collectors call the Gemini-6 Scrub. Gemini-6 was supposed to be launched on this day to rendezvous with an earlier launched Agena target vehicle. The Atlas booster carrying the Agena failed and went in the water. NASA scrubbed the Gemini-6 launch as there was no target to preform a rendezvous with. USS Wasp was to be the prime recovery ship for the mission. Many ships in the recovery fleet held their covers until the rescheduled flight took place in December. However, a number of ships did postmark covers on the scrub date and send them to collectors. Scrub covers from the prime ship USS Wasp are extremely scarce. That, along with both the Beck RSC and ship’s RSC and the ship’s return address all combine to make a very desirable cover!
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1965-12-18 |
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Gemini 7 Recovery Force |
Cachet furnished by Morris W. Beck
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No Image |
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1966-06-06 |
| Gemini 9 Recovery Force |
Cachet furnished by Morris W. Beck
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No Image |
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1966-06-06 |
| Gemini 9 Recovery Force |
Cachet furnished by Morris W. Beck
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No Image |
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1966-06-06 |
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Gemini 9 Recovery Force |
Cachet furnished by Morris W. Beck, additional typed text by addressee W. E. Pegg
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No Image |
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1966-06-06 |
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Gemini 9 Recovery Force |
Cachet furnished by Morris W. Beck
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N/A |
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N/A |
1968-09-27 |
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European Deployment |
Add-on Cachet by Wolfgang Hechler
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No Image |
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1970-11-25 |
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1972-01-26 |
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Official Business |
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1972-02-23 |
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Ship's Crest |
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