Salvage Sailor Posted May 3, 2017 Share #1 Posted May 3, 2017 Post your United States Navy Battleship items here along with your USN Battle Group patches (led by any class ship, BB, CG, CVN, LHA, etc.) BATTLESHIP - Class Leader USS IOWA (BB-61) Gemsco 1950's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted May 3, 2017 Author Share #2 Posted May 3, 2017 Battle Group - USS IOWA (BB-61) Battlegroup - September 1987 to March 1988 Mediterranean, North Atlantic, Indian Ocean, North Arabian Sea Deployment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted May 4, 2017 Author Share #3 Posted May 4, 2017 USS IOWA (BB-61) Re-Commissioning April 28th, 1984 - Welcome Aboard booklet from her Commanding officer Captain Gerald E. Gneckow with patch, rocker and ball cap patch Swiss Tex patch made for the 1984 Commissioning ceremony packet which also came with this sticker and cap patches for the guests Another Gemsco patch from her second commissioning period - Korean War-Cold War August 25th, 1951 to February 24th, 1958 USS IOWA (BB-61) "The Big Stick" Weapons Department 16" Landscaping Gunners' Mates & Fire Control Technicians circa 1984-1990 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted May 12, 2017 Author Share #4 Posted May 12, 2017 Iowa class Battleship USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62), Vietnam era made by Wolf Brown of Los Angeles (her homeport in 1968-1969 was Long Beach) More by Wolf Brown USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) 1983 Recommissioning made by Swiss Tex USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) Beirut Lebanon Crisis 1983 Italian made by Silvio Polidoro 1983-1984 Beirut deployment USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) From a rotor-head, HSL-33 Sea Snakes Deployed aboard USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) 1983-1984 Beirut Crisis A U.S. Navy Kaman SH-2F Seasprite (BuNo 150141) of Light Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron HSL-33, assigned to the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62), in 1983-84. USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) Firepower for Freedom 1980's made by Marine Photos and Publishing USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) WESTPAC July to November 1988 Philippine made Australia's Bicentennial Naval Salute - Perth, Albany, Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) 1990's USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) Peace Through Strength 1990's (rather than Firepower for Freedom, the 1980's motto) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted May 12, 2017 Author Share #5 Posted May 12, 2017 USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) BATTLEGROUP ROMEO, Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm 1990-1991 WETSU We Eat This (Poop) Up Desert Storm - USS NEW JERSEY The Battleship is Back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted May 12, 2017 Author Share #6 Posted May 12, 2017 Huge Vietnam Era Wolf Brown Jacket Patch, USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) For perspective, that's a 5" high wolf brown next to this 14" high x 11" wide patch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted June 6, 2017 Author Share #7 Posted June 6, 2017 Iowa class Battleship USS MISSOURI (BB-63) Recommissioned 1984 to 1992, she only had 16 years of commissioned active service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted June 6, 2017 Author Share #8 Posted June 6, 2017 USS MISSOURI Ball cap patches USS MISSOURI (BB-63) Recalled Desert Shield - Desert Storm 1991 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted June 6, 2017 Author Share #9 Posted June 6, 2017 World War II Battleship Veteran's patches Arizona Memorial patches, the Swiss Tex is circa 1975 Battleship Veterans Ball Cap patches USS OKLAHOMA and USS MARYLAND Association patches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted June 6, 2017 Author Share #10 Posted June 6, 2017 Original USS OKLAHOMA (BB-37) Survivors Association patch, Sunk at Pearl Harbor December 7th, 1941 32 Came Back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted June 19, 2017 Author Share #11 Posted June 19, 2017 Iowa class Battleship USS WISCONSIN (BB-64) WWII - KOREA - DESERT STORM Iowa class Battleship USS WISCONSIN (BB-64) Recommissioned as part of the '600 ship Navy' in the 1980's Cut edge Swiss Tex patches Merrowed edge and ball cap patch Iowa class Battleship USS WISCONSIN (BB-64) BATTLESHIPS FOREVER Iowa class Battleship USS WISCONSIN (BB-64) Devil Bomb Hurler - Desert Storm 1991 Iowa class Battleship USS WISCONSIN (BB-64) Persian Gulf - Operation Desert Storm 1991 She's now berthed as a Museum ship at Nauticus, Norfolk, VA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 14, 2017 Author Share #12 Posted September 14, 2017 Big Guns - Desert Storm Battleship Ballcap Patch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted October 14, 2017 Author Share #13 Posted October 14, 2017 Philippine made Battle Group Alfa - Leaders of the Pac Yokosuka Japan based "Foreign Legion", 7th Fleet surface force, USS MIDWAY, USS MULLINNIX, etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearmon Posted October 27, 2017 Share #14 Posted October 27, 2017 The Mighty Mo Task Force 77 I am guessing this is an early 50's patch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted November 24, 2017 Author Share #15 Posted November 24, 2017 Nice Missouri patch, I'd say early 50's South Dakota class Battleship USS ALABAMA (BB-60) Museum ship patch Historic Naval Ships Association http://www.hnsa.org/hnsa-ships/uss-alabama-bb-60/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 9, 2017 Author Share #16 Posted December 9, 2017 USS NEVADA (BB-36) ASSOCIATION Reunion Buttons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted December 31, 2017 Author Share #17 Posted December 31, 2017 USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) 1983 Recommissioning patches made by Swiss Tex ...and the other Swiss Tex 1983 recommissioning patch USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) FIRE POWER FOR FREEDOM made by Swiss Tex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigsaye Posted December 31, 2017 Share #18 Posted December 31, 2017 Post your United States Navy Battleship items here along with your USN Battle Group patches (led by any class ship, BB, CG, CVN, LHA, etc.) BATTLESHIP - Class Leader USS IOWA (BB-61) Gemsco 1950's . My dads second ship, 1952-1954. Prefer this patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted March 31, 2018 Author Share #19 Posted March 31, 2018 USS NORTH CAROLINA (BB-55) Museum ship patch, Wilmington, NC Photo: North Carolina arriving under tow at Wilmington in 1961 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted April 1, 2018 Author Share #20 Posted April 1, 2018 USS VALLEY FORGE (CA-50) Ticonderoga class in service 1986 to 2004 Battle Group Guardian, Westpac 1988-1989. Philippine made Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted June 2, 2018 Author Share #21 Posted June 2, 2018 COMBATDIV TWO (BATTLESHIP DIVISION 2) Norfolk, VA - The Korean War Battleship Division re-established in the 1950's by recommissioning the Iowa class battleships. USS IOWA (BB-61) 25 August 1951 - 24 February 1958 USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) 21 November 1950 - 21 August 1957 USS MISSOURI (BB-63) 11 June 1944 - 26 February 1955 (She had remained in service after WWII and was also the first to be decommissioned in the 1950's) USS WISCONSIN (BB-64) 3 March 1951 - 8 March 1958 COMBATDIV TWO (BATTLESHIP DIVISION 2) Norfolk, VA - The Korean War Battleship Division re-established in the 1950's by recommissioning the Iowa class battleships. U.S. Navy Battleship Division 2 in line abreast formation, 7 June 1954, in the Virginia Capes operating area, on the only occasion that all four Iowa-class battleships were photographed operating together. The ship closest to the camera is USS Iowa (BB-61). The others are (from near to far): USS Wisconsin (BB-64); USS Missouri (BB-63) and USS New Jersey (BB-62). Date 7 June 1954 Source Official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-638938 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Author U.S. Navy U.S. Navy Battleship Division 2 in line astern formation, 7 June 1954, in the Virginia Capes operating area, on the only occasion that all four Iowa-class battleships were photographed operating together. The ship closest to the camera is USS Iowa (BB-61). The others are USS Wisconsin (BB-64); USS Missouri (BB-63) and USS New Jersey (BB-62). Date 7 June 1954 Source Official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-638966 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Author U.S. Navy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted June 23, 2018 Author Share #22 Posted June 23, 2018 BATTLE GROUP FOXTROT - USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN-72) Nimitz class nuclear supercarrier commissioned in 1989 - Desert Storm - Abe's Maiden Westpac 1991 Abraham Lincoln's maiden Western Pacific deployment came unexpectedly on 28 May 1991 in response to Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. The ship had the staffs of Commander, Carrier Group Three, Rear Admiral Timothy W. Wright, and Destroyer Squadron 9 embarked, as well as Carrier Air Wing Eleven. She was accompanied by a seven-ship battle group While heading towards the Indian Ocean, the ship was diverted to support evacuation operations after Mount Pinatubo erupted on Luzon Island in the Philippines. In support of Operation Fiery Vigil, Abraham Lincoln led a 23-ship armada that moved over 45,000 people from the Subic Bay Naval Station to the port of Cebu in the Visayas. It was the largest peacetime evacuation of active military personnel and their families in history. After Fiery Vigil, Abraham Lincoln steamed toward the Persian Gulf, to run reconnaissance and combat air patrols in Iraq and Kuwait, assisting allied and US troops involved with Desert Storm. Battle Group Foxtrot - Operation Desert Storm 1991 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share #23 Posted July 22, 2018 TASK GROUP ALFA 1959 - USS VALLEY FORGE (CVS-45) On 1 April 1958, Rear Admiral John S. Thach hoisted his two-star flag to the carrier's main as the ship became flagship of Task Group Alpha (TG Alpha). This group, built around Valley Forge, included eight destroyers, two submarines, and one squadron each of antisubmarine helicopters and airplanes; a detachment of airborne early warning airplanes, modified A-1 Skyraiders called "guppies" because of their bulging ventral Radomes; and a land-based Lockheed P-2 Neptune. A significant development in naval tactics, TG Alpha concentrated solely on developing and perfecting new devices and techniques for countering the potential menace of enemy submarines in an age of nuclear propulsion and deep-diving submersibles. Observing the New Year (1958-1959) at sea, the carrier was steaming in very heavy weather when she was forced to take evasive action to avoid collision with a merchant ship. Heavy seas severely damaged the forward portion of the flight deck, requiring her to proceed to the New York Naval Shipyard for repairs. To ready her for service as quickly as possible, a corresponding 30-by-90-foot (9.1 m × 27.4 m) section was taken from the flight deck of the inactive carrier USS Franklin (CVS-13), berthed at Bayonne, New Jersey. The damaged section was cut away from Valley Forge's flight deck and the Franklin deck piece installed in its place. A bronze plaque was mounted on the newly replaced deck section to commemorate how the Franklin was damaged in action off Japan in April 1945 TASK GROUP ALFA 1959 - USS VALLEY FORGE (CVS-45) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted October 15, 2018 Author Share #24 Posted October 15, 2018 USS MISSOURI (BB-63) Post Korean War mothballing - Circa 1957 to 1984 prior to her Cold War reactivation Upon arrival in Bremerton, west of Seattle, Missouri was moored at the last pier of the reserve fleet berthing. She served as a popular tourist attraction, logging about 180,000 visitors per year, who came to view the "surrender deck" where a bronze plaque memorialized the spot (35.3547°N 139.76°E) in Tokyo Bay where Japan surrendered to the Allies, and the accompanying historical display that included copies of the surrender documents and photos. A small cottage industry grew in the civilian community just outside the gates, selling souvenirs and other memorabilia. Nearly thirty years passed before Missouri returned to active duty. Naval Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility, Bremerton Washington The Mothball Fleet Preserving the Past to Prepare for the Future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted November 20, 2018 Author Share #25 Posted November 20, 2018 USS CARL VINSON BATTLE GROUP (CVN-70) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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