Upper: Launch cover, USS Pompano Type 3(AC-BBT) cancels, cachet design by Martin Aden.
Lower: Commissioning cover, cachet design sponsored by Lloyd Nace, shipyard machine postmark.
Displacement 2,350 tons, 299' length, one deck gun. Made thirteen war patrols in the Pacific during World War II, sinking 12 ships. February 1942 evacuated President of the Philippines and family from Luzon. Last patrol began December 22, 1944, last heard from January 3, 1945, lost to unknown causes.
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