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Cobra 6 Actual

This is on eBay now:

 

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The usual wiggly engraving and artificial aging. First time I’ve seen a fake Cambodian Zippo. The seller only wants $300. Two other points of note: 1) There are no pictures of the bottom of the lighter with the Zippo patent number and the date code, and 2) Zippo didn’t make brass lighters until 1982, long after the end of the Vietnam War. Oh, and also US units never penetrated into Cambodia as far as Phnom Penh when we entered in 1970.

 

Please tell your lighter collector friends not to waste their money on this one!

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Cobra, is it a Zippo and what year is it? Maybe a picture of the bottom? I know that's a Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS), I just wonder when the guy was there so I get the full effect of the lighter! Thanks man! 

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Thanks, jmd62 and mtnman. The lighter is a 2022, last year. MCAS Iwakuni is still in operation. During WWII it was a Japanese naval air base. After the war it seemed like most of our allies and the US made an appearance there: the UK, Australia, New Zealand as well as our Army, AAF, Navy, and Marines.

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He was Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps from 1969 to 1973. The “real deal”, a three-war Marine who earned the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, Purple Heart, Bronze Star with Combat V, and more.

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9 minutes ago, Cobra 6 Actual said:

He was Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps from 1969 to 1973. The “real deal”, a three-war Marine who earned the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, Purple Heart, Bronze Star with Combat V, and more.

WOW 😲! Thanks for sharing! 

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easterneagle87

Got this Vulcan in an antique store yesterday. 
 

HEDRON, FLEET MARINE FORCE ATLANTIC

 

is HEDRON a name or a unit descriptor? 

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32 minutes ago, easterneagle87 said:

Got this Vulcan in an antique store yesterday. 
 

HEDRON, FLEET MARINE FORCE ATLANTIC

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Easterneagle! You nailed it man! What an awesome find! Thanks so much for sharing EE! 

 

And Cobra, that map is fantastic. The map was done in the actual Zippo manufacturing, correct? 

 

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US Army / 54th Aviation Company (Airmobile-Fixed Wing). DeHavilland (Canada) U-1A "Otter". Vung Tau, RVN 1965-1970. Long Than (North), RVN 1970-1971. Cargo, passengers and Psy-Ops leaflet missions. USA-made (St. Louis, MO) "Life-Liter". *Note they blew the "AIR MBL-FW".

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On 2/11/2023 at 9:09 AM, easterneagle87 said:

Got this Vulcan in an antique store yesterday. 
 

HEDRON, FLEET MARINE FORCE ATLANTIC

 

is HEDRON a name or a unit descriptor? 

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For anyone's interest, I have moved this lighter over for sale on ebay. 

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US Army / B Company, 22d Infantry Regiment. Ayers Kaserne (?) Kirch-Goens W. Germany 1954. What's up with the SS runes?? A little help from the Army experts is always appreciated!

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3 hours ago, yokota57 said:

US Army / B Company, 22d Infantry Regiment. Ayers Kaserne (?) Kirch-Goens W. Germany 1954. What's up with the SS runes?? A little help from the Army experts is always appreciated!

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I forgot to mention that it is a Japanese-made "Wellington". Any insight into the runes? Are they a stylized "22" ??

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Cobra 6 Actual

Here’s a fake Vietnam Zippo currently on eBay for $98:
 

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Where to start? The usual wobbly letters with black paint. The “U.S.C.G” with the missing final period (this is a European style of punctuation, such as the French taught the Vietnamese). Or the massively egregious error of a US Naval Officer’s insignia on a supposed Coast Guard lighter. And, how did those artificial “aged” rub marks occur above that Naval insignia?

 

And more errors on the reverse: 

The missing apostrophe in the word “Charlies”. The usual wobbly letters with black paint. The two periods after the word “Coast”, which are supposed to be the three dots of an ellipsis. The artificial aging. The mis-location of Vung Tau (it should be way down the coast just off from where Saigon is).

 

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