ZIPPO SLIM 1962 MILITARY NAVY LIGHTER USS BENNINGTON 20 CVS AIRCRAFT CARRIER.

Description

ZIPPO SLIM 1962 MILITARY NAVY LIGHTER USS BENNINGTON 20 CVS AIRCRAFT CARRIER.
CONDITION: This is a used lighter in very good condition. (please see pics)
This is a working lighter with new flint, just ad fluid.
Thanks for looking and God Bless.
Vietnam War
Bennington’s final seven years of active service, which included four more assignments with the 7th Fleet, coincided with the period of direct involvement of United States armed forces in the
Vietnam War
. The first deployment of this phase of her career started peacefully enough early in 1964, but the
Tonkin Gulf incident
in August extended her Far Eastern tour and brought duty in Vietnamese waters in October and November. Her next 7th Fleet tour of duty, during the summer and fall of 1965, brought more duty off the coast of Vietnam, but the service was not nearly so extensive as the she would perform during her final two deployments.
On 18 May 1966, while cruising off of
San Diego, California
, Bennington hosted the experimental
LTV XC-142
aircraft as it executed 44 short takeoffs and landings and six vertical takeoffs and landings, the ship steaming at various speeds to generate different velocities of wind-over-the-deck.
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She was the prime recovery vessel for the unmanned
Apollo 4
mission and on 9 November 1967 recovered the spacecraft which had splashed down 10 mi (16 km) from the ship.
On 4 November 1966, Bennington embarked upon her next to last 7th Fleet assignment. Throughout that tour of duty, she served with the larger carriers on
Yankee Station
in the
Gulf of Tonkin
. In addition to providing antisubmarine protection to
Task Force 77
, she also had the responsibility for tracking and identifying all ships operating in the vicinity of the task force and for providing
search and rescue services for downed aviators
. The deployment ended on 21 April, and Bennington headed for
Australia
to participate in the celebration commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Allied victory in the
Battle of the Coral Sea
. The carrier departed
Sydney
, Australia, on 8 May and, after a stop at Pearl Harbor on the 18th, arrived in San Diego on 23 May 1967.
After almost a year of normal operations along the west coast, she stood out of
Long Beach
, California, for the final deployment on 30 April 1968. She made a stop at Pearl Harbor from 15 to 20 May and arrived in
United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka
on 29 May. Her last deployment brought more of the same duty that she had seen on the previous one, antisubmarine protection for TF 77, ship identification work, and search and rescue services. She concluded that tour of duty on 28 October when she departed Yokosuka to return to the United States. Bennington arrived in Long Beach on 9 November and, on the 14th, entered the
Long Beach Naval Shipyard
for a five-month yard overhaul. The aircraft carrier resumed active service on 30 April 1969 and conducted normal operations along the California coast for the remainder of the year and into January 1970.
DISCLAIMER: I do not claim any of my Zippo Lighters to be "Genuine" as Zippo describes "Genuine"
"Any lighter that does not have anything added to the lighter that was not done by Zippo".
This would disqualify anything done by our troops during ww2, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Etc.
It would also disqualify anything done by a company that put a logo on the lighter and gave it to an employee for retirement (or best employee or any reason) if not done by Zippo. Or if someone was asked to put a tab on an older lighter that was made the same date as their deployment, or a troop who wanted their unit crest added to a lighter that was not done by Zippo. There are thousands of these lighters out in the public, but Zippo claims that I or anyone else cannot resell these items for what ever claim they may have. (kinda like you buying a ford Truck and adding aftermarket items to it and ford telling you that you cannot resell your ford truck because only ford can ad these items).
If you like what you see but want it to be an "authentic Zippo" Please DO NOT BUY MY ITEMS" I cannot or will not guarantee them to be "Genuine" as zippo describes. If you like what you see and dont mind them being done by someone else other than Zippo, fell free to purchase them but understand you own it and there is no refund. Thank You and God Bless.