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Posted 08/31/2008   8:56 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Sneeky37 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Here is a few Navy Day Covers I have in my collection
The two covers from 1945 are special, as this was the first day after WWII that U.S. Navy ships were allowed officially to use their names in the cancels.


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Posted 08/31/2008   9:44 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add laswabbie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
VERY nice Sneeky! Thanks for sharing those with me!
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Posted 08/31/2008   10:02 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Sneeky37 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hey Old Salt
Your more than welcome, gives me a chance to show some of my Naval covers
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Posted 08/31/2008   11:39 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Sneeky37 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
LASwabie
Here is one more T.R. Navy Day thats in my carrier albums
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Posted 09/01/2008   09:07 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add gussyboy1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Jake, AWESOME covers! Please show us more of your collection!!

Thanks!
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Posted 09/01/2008   09:11 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Dianne Earl to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Wow

Great covers sneeky.

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Posted 09/01/2008   09:32 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rlorenz to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Sneeky great naval covers. I am sure Swabbie will appreciate them
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Posted 09/01/2008   2:50 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Sneeky37 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Okay Gussyboy
Here are a few more, two came from a friend in NY who knows I collect Naval covers and the Air Station one, picked up on Stampoffers about a month back.

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Posted 09/01/2008   2:54 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Sneeky37 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Oh! should have noted, the Naval Air Station Sunnyvale, is better known these days as NAS Moffett Field
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Posted 09/01/2008   3:05 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Sneeky37 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here are Three newer Naval Covers for the 100th anniversary of the Great White Fleet of 1908, also note 1908 was the first year the Navy had shipboard Post Offices, thanks to Teddy Roosevelt.
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Posted 09/01/2008   3:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add philb to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Nice display Sneeky !!
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Posted 09/01/2008   5:05 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Dianne Earl to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
What a great collection of covers Sneeky

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Posted 09/01/2008   9:25 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Sneeky37 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Dianne Earl

Thats only the "Tip Of the Iceberg" got around 5 or 6 hundred Naval related covers.
Will try to pull afew more later ans show them for all.
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Posted 09/01/2008   9:28 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Sneeky37 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Many THANKS to ALL for the positive comments on my Naval Covers
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Posted 09/02/2008   12:26 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Sneeky37 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Okay heres the covers from my old ship that got me into collecting Naval Covers 9 years back.

First are some of my favorite Commissioning covers


Here are two Christmas covers and a Shakedown Cruise Cover

The the last two pages are Real Sailors Mail, Three from the KOrean War Era & Three from the Viet Nam War Era, The VALLEY FORGE served in both these Wars, in fact she was the first U.S. Carrier to luanch aircrat during the Korean War, plus she was the only Aircraft Carrier to do Four Combat tours in the Korean War, earning her 8 Battle Stars.
She would goon to earn Nine Battle Stars in the Viet Nam War.



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Posted 09/02/2008   06:35 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add alan to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Lovely interesting covers. Would like to see more.
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