US NAVY - USS BON HOMME RICHARD CV-31 Challenge Coin For Sale
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US NAVY - USS BON HOMME RICHARD CV-31 Challenge Coin:
$14.99
This is a great looking US NAVY - USS BON HOMME RICHARD CV-31 challenge coin.Coin has reeded edges and is about 1 9/16" in diameter. All details are raised lettering.Coin is contained in an acrylic air tight holder.USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. She was the second US Navy ship to bear the name, being named for John Paul Jones's famous Revolutionary War frigate by the same name. Jones had named that ship, usually rendered in more correct French as Bonhomme Richard, to honor Benjamin Franklin, the American Commissioner at Paris, whose Poor Richard's Almanac had been published in France under the title Les Maximes du Bonhomme Richard.
Bon Homme Richard was commissioned in November 1944, and served in the final campaigns of the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning one battle star. Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA). In her second career she operated exclusively in the Pacific, playing a prominent role in the Korean War, for which she earned five battle stars, and the Vietnam War. She was decommissioned in 1971, and scrapped in 1992.
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