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USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) Patch – Sew On

$11.99

Aviators and Sailors!  Enjoy this beautifully embroidered USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) Patch.   You’ll love displaying or wearing it on a flight suit or jacket!

  • 4″ inches
  • Sew On
  • US Veteran-Owned Business

16 in stock (can be backordered)

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USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) Patch – Sew On

Aviators and Sailors!  Enjoy this beautifully embroidered USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) Patch.   You’ll love displaying or wearing it on a flight suit or jacket!

  • 4″ inches
  • Sew On
  • US Veteran-Owned Business
  • Reproduction

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, the first one 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 recommissioned in 1951 for the Korean War. 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 modernized and recommissioned in 1955. She was decommissioned in 1971, and scrapped in 1992.

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