Army Day (April 6th)
Holiday Theme Cachets
Walter Crosby cachet posted aboard USS MISSISSIPPI (BB 41) on 6 APR 1935 with SAN PEDRO/ CALIFORNIA in killers. The wording below denotes the 18th Anniversary of the severance of Diplomatic Relations between the United States and Germany
Don Graf’s cachet commemorates Army Day posted aboard USS GYATT (DD 712) on 6 APR 1949. Since 1950, individual service days were no longer celebrated with the establishment of Armed Forces Day.