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[Image Source - Don Saddler]
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Oct 3, 1943 - USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CV-42 Cover - The aircraft carrier formerly known as Coral Sea!
[Image Source - eBay]
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Apr 25, 1945 - U.S.S. Coral Sea - Cover celebrating the launching of CVB-42 Coral Sea. The ship would soon be renamed USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CV-42.
[Image Source - eBay]
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Apr 29, 1945 - USS Coral Sea - CV-42 launched from the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
[Image Source - Don Saddler]
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Apr 2, 1946 - U.S.S. Coral Sea - Cover celebrating the launching of CVB-43.
[Image Source - eBay]
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Oct 1, 1947 - USS Coral Sea first day cover.
[Image Source - eBay]
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Oct 1, 1947 - Yet another USS Coral Sea first day cover.
[Image Source - eBay]
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Oct 1, 1947 - First day postal service postcard.
[Image Source - eBay]
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Oct 1, 1947 - First day postal service postcard.
[Image Source - eBay]
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Oct 1, 1947 - First Day cancellation cover.
[Image Source - eBay]
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Oct 1, 1947 - First Day cancellation cover.
[Image Source - eBay]
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Oct 1, 1947 - First Day Cover.
[Image Source - eBay]
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Oct 1, 1947 - First Day Cover. Note mistake: DVB-43
[Image Source - eBay]
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1948 - Cover from Midshipmen's Cruise.
[Image Source - eBay]
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May 17, 1948 - 1948 Post Card.
[Image Source - eBay]
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May 30, 1948 - CVB-43 - Post Card.
[Image Source - Herman Doernbach]
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Jun 1948 - Postcard from the French Riviera.
[Image Source - Herman Doernbach]
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Jun 1948 - Postcard from the French Riviera.
[Image Source - Herman Doernbach]
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Jun 1948 - Postcard from the French Riviera.
[Image Source - Herman Doernbach]
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Jun 1948 - Postcard from the French Riviera.
[Image Source - eBay]
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Oct 27, 1949 - Navy Day cover.
[Image Source - eBay]
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Oct 27, 1950 - Coral Sea cover - Navy Day.
[Image Source - eBay]
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Feb 18, 1953 - CVB-43 postcard from 1953.
[Image Source - eBay]
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1955 - Unusual postcard from 1955.
[Image Source - eBay]
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1963 - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 Coral Sea Battle Anniversary.
[Image Source - Herman Doernbach]
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May 20, 1965 - Salvation Army, Coral Sea cancellation.
[Image Source - eBay]
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Oct 8, 1967 - CVA-43 Cover celebrating Coral Sea's 20th Anniversary.
[Image Source - eBay]
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1972 - CVA-43 Cover celebrating Coral Sea's 25th Anniversary.
[Image Source - eBay]
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Jun 21, 1972 - USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) - Remembering our POW-MIA sacrifice for freedom.
[Image Source - Bruce Henion]
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1979 - Leaving San Francisco 1979/80 Westpac.
[Image Source - eBay]
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1983 - Postcard marking the return to the Atlantic Fleet of the USS Coral Sea after 25 years in the Pacific Fleet.
[Image Source - eBay]
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May 19, 1986 - Postcard issued just after Libya operations.
[Image Source - Shelby Gaul]
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1988 - Mirro-Krome Postcard.
[Image Source - Shelby Gaul]
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1988 - Mirro-Krome Postcard. Note the typo CU-43
[Image Source - eBay]
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May 6, 1989 - 47th Anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea.
[Image Source - eBay]
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Jan 9, 1990 - Final post card.
[Image Source - eBay]
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Apr 30, 1990 - USS Coral Sea CV-43 - Last ever cover from the USS Coral Sea on the day of the decommissioning.
[Image Source - eBay]
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Apr 30, 1990 - CV-43 Decommissioning Cover.
[Image Source - eBay]
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Apr 30, 1990 - Last day postal service postcard from decommissioning. Map of the Battle of the Coral Sea.
[Image Source - Bob Dorais]
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2000 - CVB-43 Italian Postcard
[Image Source - eBay]
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Oct 1, 2007 - 60th Anniversary of Commissioning USS Coral Sea.
[Image Source - eBay]
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Oct 1, 2007 - 60th Anniversary of Commissioning USS Coral Sea.
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