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This USS America 1965 T&C Zippo has an engraved "plank owner" on the reverse. A "plank owner" is an individual who was a member of the crew of a ship when that ship was placed in commission. Plank owner Zippos are highly valued by collectors   1965 Zippo with a Town & Country hand-painted USS F. D. Roosevelt CVA 42 aircraft carrier. The engraved lid reads "From Capt C.C. Talley".
   
This is 1965 T&C Zippo for carrier SS Bon Homme Richard CVA 31. A Navy tradition is the Shellback initiation that takes place when a sailor crosses the equator for the first time. The ship becomes a pirate ship in the domain of King Neptune.
  In 1966 the USS Thomas J Gary participated in Operation Deep Freeze, a scientific expedition to the Antarctic, and this 1966 Zippo commemorates the event. The ship's history is told HERE.
         
USS Sculpin submarine  Zippo is dated 1965.  A sculpin as  grotesque looking fish.   1965 Zippo.  The carrier USS Shangri La was once  commanded by Vice Adm. John S McCain, the father of John McCain, current senator and former Presidential candidate.  
               
    1966 T&C Zippo for the destroyer USS Purdy and the Purdy Pirates.     The USS Fulton was a submarine tender.  The T&C Zippo is dated 1966.     1966 T&C Zippo
for USS Forrestal.  Go HERE to see
 the ship's Vietnam Zippo and story.
   
 
1966 slim T&C Zippo for  USS F.D. Roosevelt.    1966 T&C Zippo for the heavy cruiser USS Newport News "stolen from Steve Rowan".  In 1972, while in action in Vietnam, she  sustained an in-bore explosion killing 20 and injuring 36 men.   1967 T&C Zippo for the carrier USS Franklin Roosevelt with attached badge Commander Carrier Division Six.  On the reverse, the name Mr. J.E. Bent on the lid.  Presented by R. Adm. V.G. Lambert USN ComCarDiv Six, 2 May 1968.
   
1967 slim T&C Zippo for Commander Carrier Division Four,  presentation lighter by Rear Admiral G.C. Talley Jr. CTF-60.   1969 T&C Zippo for USS Pargo,
a nuclear attack submarine.
     
   
1975 Zippo commemorating the Mayaguez Incident when  Cambodians captured an American merchant vessel the Mayaguez and the subsequent events leading to the death of 41 servicemen.
    Both of these Zippos are dated 1976 for
"CPO Club Caribou II" in Adak, Alaska. 
One carries the image of a stag, the
other an anchor, probably for the
Chief Petty Officer Club at the
 Adak Naval Air Station.
 
   
This 1977 Zippo is for the USS Trenton, the story of the ship can be found HERE .   1978 slim Zippo for USS John
F. Kennedy with the ship's
emblem on the reverse.
  1997 Zippo for USS The Sullivans, named after the five Sullivan brothers killed on one ship during World War II .