April 6 1968 Anti Vietnam War Protest Recommissioning of U.S.S. New Jersey Pin

Description

This listing began on APRIL 30, 2021 and
will end within 30 days, on or before MAY 30, 2021,
if the item is not sold.
OFFERED FOR SALE IS THIS
1 1/2 INCH CELLULOID PINBACK BUTTON
I
N WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE REALLY GREAT SHAPE.
HOWEVER, THAT IS JUST MY OPINION.  SEE PHOTOS FOR CONDITION, AND YOU BE THE JUDGE.   IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT ME BEFORE BIDDING OR BUYING.
RETURNS ARE NOT ACCEPTED
UNLESS
THE ITEM IS NOT AS DESCRIBED OR SHOWN IN THE PHOTOS OR HAS SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE OR DEFECTS  NOT VISIBLE IN THE PHOTOS OR OTHERWISE DESCRIBED.
NOTE:  THIS IS THE
BLACK ON WHITE
VERSION OF THIS PIN.  IT IS FAR LESS COMMON THAN THE
BLUE ON WHITE
VERSION.
GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC AND ORIGINAL AS DESCRIBED
.
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This pin was issued in
1968
to raise funds and support for the
U.S.S. New Jersey Action
and the
Philadelphia Navel Shipyard
to protest the
April 6, 1968
recommissioning of the battleship, the U.S.S. New Jersey, for "action" in the Vietnam War.  The pin has nice graphics of
LIFE, JOY and PEACE tree
, and reads:
U.S.S. NEW JERSEY ACTION
-
APRIL 6th.
On April 6, 1968, at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, the U.S. Navy planned
to recommission
one of the most powerful ships ever
to serve in its fleet for shore bombardment duty in Vietnam: t
he
USS New Jersey.
It was
reactivated to provide naval gunfire support for American and allied forces fighting in South Vietnam. The battle-wagon
fired nearly twenty thousand shells
during its tour of duty, bombarding enemy forces the way only a battleship can.
Over the course of her relatively short Vietnam patrol New Jersey fired 5,688 16-inch gun rounds and 14,891 five-inch gun rounds,
far more than she fired during World War II and the Korean War combined
. She was never seriously attacked by North Vietnamese forces.
This underground pinback button pin or badge relates to the Hippie (or Hippy) Counterculture Movement of the psychedelic Sixties (1960's) and Seventies (1970's).  That movement included such themes and topics as peace, protest, civil rights, radical, socialist, communist, anarchist, union labor strikes, drugs, marijuana, pot, weed, lsd, acid, sds, iww, anti draft, anti war, anti rotc, welfare rights, poverty, equal rights, integration, gay, women's rights, black panthers, black power, left wing, liberal, etc.  progressive political movement and is guaranteed to be genuine as described.
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