Vietnam Zippo von Captain Herbert Kaminer "The Skipper" Manship

Folgende Informationen erhielt ich von der Enkelin des Vorbesitzers:

"A Vietnam War treat! This Zippo flip-top lighter flew with my grandfather in the war."

"This lighter was manufactured at least ten years before the start of the Vietnam War, but wasn't giving to my grandfather by my great-grandfather until he started flying for the Navy. My grandfather specialized in heat-seeking Naval missile missions and flew in offensive strategic missions during the fall of Saigon. It's my understanding that the lighter sat in the cockpit with him always as a good luck charm."

"My grandfather was Captain Herbert Kaminer "The Skipper" Manship."

Man findet diesen Piloten u.a. auch im Absolventenbuch des United States Naval War College:

Link

Leider fand ich bisher noch keine Informationen, welche direkt mit dem Vietnam Krieg in Beziehung stehen. Nichts desto trotz dürfte es wohl eines der ältesten Vietnam Zippos sein.

Name: MCDANIEL WILLIAM OTIS
Branch: NAVY
Rate: O06
Rank: CAPTAIN
MOS: 9222
MOS Title: Commanding Officer, Afloat
Entered: 440301
Discharged: 740630
Service Number: 
State: UNKNOWN
Race: CAUCASIAN

Name: SNYDER CHARLES ARTHUR JR
Branch: NAVY
Rate: E05
Rank: PO 2ND CLASS
MOS: SK
MOS Title: Storekeeper
Entered: 670124
Discharged: 701001
Service Number: 
State: ALABAMA
Race: CAUCASIAN

USS Currituck AV-7 (Messband)

USS Turner Joy DD 951

Geschichte der USS Turner Joy DD 951 “Tokin Zwischenfall”

USS America CVA 66: D. R. Shaffer is my husband. He bought the lighter aboard the U.S.S. America while they were on the 1968 World Cruise while they were in Vietnam. He was an aviation metal smith with VAW-122 flying E2As. He worked on the flight deck as an aircraft troubleshooter.

USS Harold E Holt DE 1074

USS Coral Sea CV 43

Die letzte Operation des Vietnam Krieges:

"Mayaguez Indcident" - Letzte amerikanische Operationen des Vietnam Krieges

USS Epperson DD 719

USS Benjamin Stoddert DDG 22

USS Chipola AO-63, durch Zippo neu koloriertes Logo?

USS Wallace Lind DD 703

USS Vancouver LPD 2

USS Askari ARL 30

Name: BYRUM SMITH WILSON
Branch: NAVY
Rate: E06
Rank: PO 1ST CLASS
MOS: HM
MOS Title: Hospital Corpsman
Entered: 630627
Discharged: 830630
Service Number: 
State: NORTH CAROLINA
Race: CAUCASIAN

Name: LATHAM ROBERT JR
Branch: NAVY
Rate: E04
Rank: PO 3RD CLASS
MOS: BM
MOS Title: Boatswain's Mate
Entered: 700406
Discharged: 740405
Service Number: 
State: GEORGIA
Race: AFRICAN-AMERICAN

Name: SEDILLO RAMON F
Branch: NAVY
Rate: E07
Rank: CHIEFT PETTY OFFICER
MOS: YN
MOS Title: Yeoman
Entered: 550700
Discharged: 740516
Service Number: 
State: NEW MEXICO
Race: CAUCASIAN

Third Coastal Zone Advisors

YR-71, Plankowner O Elkins Jr

YRBM 20, Delta Hilton

Naval Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit 302

Name: PICARD HARVEY P
Branch: NAVY
Rate: E06
Rank: PO 1ST CLASS
MOS: BM
MOS Title: Boatswain's Mate
Entered: 480900
Discharged: 710219
Service Number: 
State: MARYLAND
Race: CAUCASIAN

Inshore Undersea Warfare Group One - Unit One

Name: HERPIN RICHARD JR
Branch: NAVY
Rate: E06
Rank: PO 1ST CLASS
MOS: YN
MOS Title: Yeoman
Entered: 641127
Discharged: 930731
Service Number: 
State: TEXAS
Race: AFRICAN-AMERICAN

Inshore Undersea Warfare Group One - Unit Two & Three