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USS Enterprise Silver and Bronze Medal

KnellKnell Posts: 453 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Anybody here collects this? I've seen this on eBay as a set and individual. Got mine individual and hoping that someone might know where to get a capital holder to make them as a set? Thanks.

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  • TwobitcollectorTwobitcollector Posts: 3,448 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If you don't see something give them a call, they will custom make one for you.

    http://store.capitalplastics.com/index.php/dollar-set-coin-holders/silver-dollar-sets-no-dates.html

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  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like em

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice.... When I was in the Navy, I was on a Destroyer Escort Radar ship... 306 feet long... We cruised by the Enterprise in Gitmo.... made me feel like I was on a rowboat.... And now the AC's are even larger....Cheers, RickO

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,307 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Anybody got a screen capture of the Enterprise from "Star Trek IV"?
    o:)

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  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Interesting, very nice pair !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,176 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Those medals are attractive for modern pieces with the matte finish.

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  • KnellKnell Posts: 453 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Update.....
    Got smaller souvenir version without the card.

  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,768 ✭✭✭✭✭

    They are in great shape.

  • GRANDAMGRANDAM Posts: 8,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2, 2020 6:06AM

    OH MAN,,,,I was expecting to see James T Kirk and Mr Spock, :o

    GrandAm :)
  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,483 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I still have my Bronze one.

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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,829 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Knell
    I really like those, thanks for posting it here, I had not seen those before. :)

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  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My dad was on that ship during WWII. He never talked about it. Ever. I only found out about it after he died. He was the guy on the flight deck that inserted some sort of cartridge into the airplane engine to get it started. (??) I found an empty metal cartridge box with some memorabilia inside of it. That's how I found out.

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,829 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Hydrant said:
    My dad was on that ship during WWII. He never talked about it. Ever. I only found out about it after he died. He was the guy on the flight deck that inserted some sort of cartridge into the airplane engine to get it started. (??) I found an empty metal cartridge box with some memorabilia inside of it. That's how I found out.

    I thank him for his service..........thanks for sharing that history.
    True 'heros' more often than not do not talk about their efforts. :)

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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,829 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think this is the ship that we speak of.

    Landings & Take-Offs Aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6) WW2

    https://youtu.be/7msdpXoGOqs

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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,829 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A lot of Brave men there....on and off the flight deck

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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,416 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Hydrant said:
    My dad was on that ship during WWII. He never talked about it. Ever. I only found out about it after he died. He was the guy on the flight deck that inserted some sort of cartridge into the airplane engine to get it started. (??) I found an empty metal cartridge box with some memorabilia inside of it. That's how I found out.

    The ship your dad was on was CV-6, a very famous US Navy aircraft carrier that served throughout WWII. It appears in its pre-WWII appearance in the movie "Dive Bomber". The ship on the medal is CVN-65, a carrier that entered service in 1960 and was only recently finally retired. Another USS Enterprise, CVN-80, is now under construction.

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  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 1, 2020 4:55PM

    Thanks for posting the vIdeo Boston. I'm watching it now and I'm choking up. One of my uncles was a pilot who was shot down and killed over Germany. Kansas farm boy. The favorite son. 22 years old. My mother and my four aunts never got over it. So many tears. John Wesley Gardner, R.I.P.

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,829 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @291fifth said:

    @Hydrant said:
    My dad was on that ship during WWII. He never talked about it. Ever. I only found out about it after he died. He was the guy on the flight deck that inserted some sort of cartridge into the airplane engine to get it started. (??) I found an empty metal cartridge box with some memorabilia inside of it. That's how I found out.

    The ship your dad was on was CV-6, a very famous US Navy aircraft carrier that served throughout WWII. It appears in its pre-WWII appearance in the movie "Dive Bomber". The ship on the medal is CVN-65, a carrier that entered service in 1960 and was only recently finally retired. Another USS Enterprise, CVN-80, is now under construction.

    Thanks for your knowledge, I'm learning here, I posted the CV-6 above for @Hydrant :)

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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,427 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 1, 2020 5:08PM

    @ricko said:
    Very nice.... When I was in the Navy, I was on a Destroyer Escort Radar ship... 306 feet long... We cruised by the Enterprise in Gitmo.... made me feel like I was on a rowboat.... And now the AC's are even larger....Cheers, RickO

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  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,170 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 1, 2020 5:14PM

    In November 2020 a lady who liked my website sent me a bunch of medals including two large three inch Medallic Arts US Navy medals.

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    Medallic Arts Carrier USS Enterprise 1960
    Bronze, 63 mm, 5 oz

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    Medallic Arts Naval Aviation 1911-1961
    Bronze, 63 mm, 5 oz

    She also sent me a Medallic Arts Civil War Centennial 1861-1961 medal (not posted) and some odder ones.

    All three medals came with the original cardboard boxes.

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  • KRW1900KRW1900 Posts: 2 ✭

    The silver medallions are numbered on the edge. There were fifty originally made, numbered 1 to 50. It would be interesting to know what number medallion you have. My grandfather was head of PR and responsible for launchings for 38 years.

  • KRW1900KRW1900 Posts: 2 ✭

    @291fifth said:

    @Hydrant said:
    My dad was on that ship during WWII. He never talked about it. Ever. I only found out about it after he died. He was the guy on the flight deck that inserted some sort of cartridge into the airplane engine to get it started. (??) I found an empty metal cartridge box with some memorabilia inside of it. That's how I found out.

    The ship your dad was on was CV-6, a very famous US Navy aircraft carrier that served throughout WWII. It appears in its pre-WWII appearance in the movie "Dive Bomber". The ship on the medal is CVN-65, a carrier that entered service in 1960 and was only recently finally retired. Another USS Enterprise, CVN-80, is now under construction.

    Actually the original designation of the Enterprise was CVAN, Carrier Vessel Attack Nuclear. The Designation was changed as they thought attack not a friendly word.

  • RichRRichR Posts: 3,864 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My dad actually designed some of the air to air/ship missile and fire control systems on the first nuclear powered Enterprise...along with its nuclear escort ship USS Long Beach!

    The newest USS Enterprise (CVN-80) is currently under construction at Newport News.

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